While the talent and performances are clear for all to see, the picture it paints fails to align with my perceptions and experiences of the world. The aging father, whose anti-social, prejudiced, misogynistic and homophobic ways have always been part of his composition - and has seemingly been accepted so endearingly by his family to the point that they would welcome him moving closer to them is just fantasy. If he had been portrayed as a likeable chap, with the onset of dementia changing his persona then, maybe, but the guy has always been a toxic piece of horse waste and probably the reason why the rest of his family moved so far away in the first instance: Fail!
