The name always put me off - not just the eeevil hatespeak of the faggots themselves, but the idea of 'Brain's Faggots'.
I agree, though, the innuendo comes all too easily. What made the documentary interesting was the Doody family's almost total lack of such; which made me wonder whether they'd been told to play it straight (in which case they're extremely good actors) or whether the joke had bypassed them altogether (which seems equally implausible). Lynda Bellingham, doing the voiceover, was obviously relishing her every opportunity to enunce "faggot values" or "faggot fame". |
