Ryan also spoke to Gay Times about his decision to hire loads of gay actors in Special. This show is all the lovely tender accurate portrayals of queer love and sex and disability and. If and don’t get all for their amazing scene in episode 3 of #SpecialNetflix I will be furious. I mean, it's being called 'revolutionary' and 'groundbreaking' for the way it so expertly normalises gay sex, disabled sex AND sex workers. Special follows 20-something Ryan, who's gay, has cerebral palsy, and just got a job working at eggwoke, a ridiculously trendy publication headed up by a content-hungry editor.Īs well showing what it's like to live with, and navigate dating as a person with mild cerebral palsy, one of the show's sex scenes has also got people talking. Produced by Jim Parsons aka Big Bang Theory's Sheldon, it's written by and starring Ryan O'Connell, and is based on his memoir I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves. It's also absolutely nailed the sex scene too, which basically every other TV show has utterly ruined since the dawn of time (not you, Sex Education).
For anyone who's in dire need of a joyful dose of queer, disabled representation then Ryan O'Connell's comedy has come at the perfect time (slash 10 years too late). Netflix's new show Special is here and honestly, FINALLY.
