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Mr Loverman

Drama · 2024 · Rated 7.3/10

Last aired: S1 E8, Episode 8 · 2024-10-14

Mr Loverman is a life-affirming story about family, love, and being true to yourself. Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Esq. Barry to his mates. Trouble to his wife, his daughters, and his lover. Seventy years old, Antiguan born, exuberant Hackney personality, Barry is renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know what's really going on: a secret, decades-long passionate affair with his best friend and soulmate, Morris. Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.

Cast

Lennie James Barrington Walker

Sharon D. Clarke Carmel Walker

Ariyon Bakare Morris De La Roux

Tamara Lawrance Maxine Walker

Tahj Miles Daniel Walker

Sharlene Whyte Donna Walker

Suzette Llewellyn Odette De La Roux

Clint Dyer Hubert

Llewella Gideon Drusilla

Hopi Grace Merty

Doreene Blackstock Candaisy

Lochlainn O'Mearáin Reuben Dempsey

Juliet Garricks Augusta

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Tony

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 2024-10-14 · 31 min After Carmel catches and reprimands Barry for creeping into bed during the early hours from god knows where, Barry decides it is finally time to ask for a divorce so he can set up a new life with his best friend and lifelong lover – albeit discreetly. However, Barry's plan to tell Carmel after she returns from church the next morning is scuppered when she brings home her gang of Christian cronies for Sunday lunch.

E2 Episode 2 2024-10-14 · 28 min Barry returns from dropping Carmel at the airport alone to find a ringing phone with his furious daughter Maxine on the other end, demanding that he meets her that afternoon. Barry admits to Morris his inability to tell Carmel about the intended divorce.

E3 Episode 3 2024-10-14 · 30 min After a night drinking cocktails, Barry accidentally misleads Morris to believe that he is ready to consider recognising their relationship with marriage. Dizzy with romance, Morris asks Barry to meet up and excitedly plans to pop the question himself. As Barry walks through Hackney to meet Morris, we venture with him on a trip down memory lane to the 1990s, when the stakes of being caught were at their most severe.

E4 Episode 4 2024-10-14 · 29 min Carmel returns to her father in Antigua, where she reflects on her own secrets, regrets and her side of the complicated marriage story.

E5 Episode 5 2024-10-14 · 29 min Barry and Donna's nights mirror each other's in an episode about how secrets and misunderstandings have shaped their world views.

E6 Episode 6 2024-10-14 · 29 min When Barry is tasked with looking after Daniel, the two men of different generations must learn to relate to one another, until a betrayal provokes an unexpected outburst.

E7 Episode 7 2024-10-14 · 32 min When Barry is tasked with looking after Daniel, the two men of different generations must learn to relate to one another, until a betrayal provokes an unexpected outburst.

E8 Episode 8 2024-10-14 · 27 min Barry prepares to tell Carmel the truth he has been hiding for five decades and to face a brave new world.

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