This is beautiful story is set in an importantant historical context, but overcomplicated by time jumps that don't always bring much value. Emotion and narrative logic are lost because of these continous jumps in various points of the couple's past.
The beginning of the love story seems particularly rushed, as the love between the two men is served as a given, but its growth is not protraied on screen in a clear and sustained manner. As a viewer, I couldn't emotionally engage with their love story during the first episodes, as there was little investment on screen on why I should care.
The constant conflict, that of Hawke always pushing Tim away, also doesn't fully explain why Tim would refuse reconnecting with his life's lover on his death bed. As we are shown in one of the last episodes, their last rupture (during Hawk's griving for his dead son) is not as dramatic and personal to Skippy, particularly compared to the other ones.
Overall, the first episodes do better justice to the historical context in which they are set, at the expense of building the grounds of the relationship between Tim and Hawk, which is beautifully put in focus during the later part of the series.
The beginning of the love story seems particularly rushed, as the love between the two men is served as a given, but its growth is not protraied on screen in a clear and sustained manner. As a viewer, I couldn't emotionally engage with their love story during the first episodes, as there was little investment on screen on why I should care.
The constant conflict, that of Hawke always pushing Tim away, also doesn't fully explain why Tim would refuse reconnecting with his life's lover on his death bed. As we are shown in one of the last episodes, their last rupture (during Hawk's griving for his dead son) is not as dramatic and personal to Skippy, particularly compared to the other ones.
Overall, the first episodes do better justice to the historical context in which they are set, at the expense of building the grounds of the relationship between Tim and Hawk, which is beautifully put in focus during the later part of the series.