Fool Me Once and Marcella stars' 2018 ITV drama Butterfly is now on Netflix
ITV drama Butterfly starring Fool Me Once’s Emmett J Scanlan and Marcella’s Anna Friel has become available on Netflix.
The three-part series focuses on 11-year-old Maxine, who starts to realise that she is a transgender girl, with Scanlan and Friel playing her separated parents as they begin to accept her transition.
Netflix has now released the show on the streaming service for users to watch.
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Butterfly received huge praise when it was originally released six years ago from both viewers and critics, with The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan calling it “truthful, beautiful and powerful stuff”.
The Independent’s Sean O’Grady wrote that it was an “excellent drama” and “a landmark ITV series”, while The Telegraph’s Gabriel Tate said it was a “well-intended, carefully calibrated pushback against lazy prejudice or rushes to judgment”.
Butterfly also received positive reception from the trans community, with Ash Palmisciano (who plays Matty Barton on Emmerdale), saying (via Radio Times): "It’s truthful, dark, heart-breaking, beautiful and a journey that even the viewer has no choice but to embark on.
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“A story that connects with any loving parent who ultimately wants happiness for their child. I’m extremely excited for the world to begin to see a true insight into what it really takes for a child like Maxine and her family to embark on this journey."
"Trans people desperately lack authentic representation in the media, and Butterfly is one of the few fictional shows that manages to portray the struggles and lives of trans people in an authentic manner,” added artist and trans campaigner Fox Fisher.
“In the current hostile media climate and rise in transphobia, hopefully this series will allow people to humanise the issue and look past the moral panic surrounding trans children.”
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Meanwhile, author and trans activist Paris Lees said at a screening of the show: “Every time I saw a trans person on TV when I was growing up, you would be presented as an object of ridicule or pity or disgust….
“It was really upsetting that every time I saw someone like me it wasn't in a positive context, and I genuinely think that this is the best thing that's happened to the trans community for years.”
Butterfly is available to watch now on Netflix.
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