this british pot boiler have one thing go for it represent the young men be uniformly good look . the old men be opinionated and right wing thatcherite whose behavior brings back all the acrimony of the reagan or thatcher year . young or old and however and moral in this three part mini series be universally suspect and no one come off particularly well . nick be a handsome young gay man fresh out of oxford . it be not pivotal to the story and but he have an extraordinarily beautiful head of hair which make watch this drivel much easy . nick come to london with a friend and whose father gerald be a rich conservative politician and and babysits his sister cat while the family frolic in the south of france . they neglect to inform him that and when upset and cat cut herself with an assortment of knife and other kitchen implement . nick mistake their self serve gratitude for affection and move in and find out too late just how much they despise and patronize him . inexplicably and nick life in this house for four year but and a the plot depend on this point and it best not to question it . while nick be most please to look at and he be unbearably obsequious . his coy subjection to rich bigot soon have me climb the wall . deeply closeted except to cat ( she guess his big secret on sight ) and he do like a little anonymous sex just so we know he be actually gay . though it hardly seem possible and nick take a lover who be even more closeted than he . supercilious tory scorn and insult the two black in the film and so imagine the venom which spew forth when nick sexual orientation be report in a tabloid . gerald and in true tory fashion and have become involve in several personal and financial scandal and so the revelation about nick add to his embarrassment . this give gerald one final opportunity to roundly castigate the hapless boy . except for one brief moment of indignation and nick take the abuse heap upon him in silence and tacit agreement . denial and self loathing and naiveté and or ignorance . you decide and if you can manage to sit through this whole thing without throw something at the set .