There is hardly an aspect of gay life, (or of 'straight' society's reaction to it), that he leaves unexplored. If he can get in a crass joke, he does and nobody comes out of it well. The characters either talk in sound-bites or are reduced to double-entendres. Nor is Elyot particularly good at serving up dialogue that sounds believable or naturalistic. It's a banal plot device and you can't help feeling Elyot would have made his point a lot better if the stories hadn't been connected. Nothing wrong with that, you might say it has worked as a backdrop to many splendid dramas in the past but you have to suspend quite a lot of disbelief when in a city the size of London with a sizeable gay population, all the gay characters keep bumping into each other in clubs, public toilets, on Clapham Common itself or at dinner parties or just in living across the street from each other. All the characters seem to be inter-related. This may well be down to Elyot's reliance on coincidence. I wish I could have liked it more because there is so much here to admire and spread over, maybe six weekly episodes, he might have got away with it but as it stands it just doesn't ring true.
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At times it looks like he's trying to cram in forty years of gay sexual history into a night and day and it just doesn't work.
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Elyot goes for an epic structure in an intimate setting. The problem with Kevin Elyot's (writer) and Adrian Shergold's (director) boldly ambitious "Clapham Junction" is that it attempts to bite off so much more than it can possibly chew in just under two hours.