This hilarious and nuanced show’s 10-minute episodes are landmark television. Its rare glimpse of queer love in small-town Scotland is devastatingly charming
The lingering shot of a used plaster floating across an empty swimming pool may not instantly signal entry into the pantheon of landmark lesbian TV drama. Nor is a council leisure centre that has seen better days the most obvious setting for a tender coming-out and coming-of-age romance. But there’s a winning refusal to conform in Float, a devastatingly charming drama that offers a rare glimpse of queer life and love beyond the big city.
Filmed on location in Helensburgh, a seaside town on the west coast of Scotland, series two will launch later this week from BBC Scotland and chronicles the fragile bond between two misfit lifeguards patrolling its heavily chlorinated environs. It follows Jade, a jaggy university drop-out, and her fellow lifeguard, the apparently straight Collette. Float is only the second production to come out of BBC Scotland with a gay female-led storyline, notes Hannah Jarrett-Scott, who plays Jade, the last one being Lip Service which was first broadcast on BBC Three in 2010.
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