Warning: Contains spoilers on Tip Toe, episode 5 season finale<\/p>\n
The series finale of the gripping TV drama Tip Toe aired this week and fans have labelled the \u201cmentally scarring\u201d episode \u201cone of the most horrific things\u201d they\u2019ve ever seen. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe last 15 minutes of #tiptoe are some of the most harrowing 15 minutes of a TV drama I\u2019ve seen for quite some time (if ever),\u201d one tweeted on X. <\/p>\n
\u201cThose final 10 minutes absolutely wrecked me. Even though you knew what was coming, it was horrifying to watch,\u201d another noted. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust wow at Tip Toe. Feel very unsettled and numb after that final episode,\u201d yet another commented. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe ending is up there with the most powerful tv there has been. Takes your breath away,\u201d one concluded.<\/p>\n
Indeed, viewers were left utterly stunned as the five-episode series reached a climax this week when gay main character Leo (played by Alan Cumming) was viciously murdered by his homophobic neighbour, Clive (David Morrissey). <\/p>\n
In truly shocking scenes, Clive and his gang of football-loving mates assault Leo before fatally hanging him from a lamppost outside his residence.<\/p>\n
Stream Tip Toe on BINGE, available on Hubbl<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, if fans thought that was traumatising, they should spare a thought for the cast who played out the final scenes on the LGBTQIA+ drama. The savage act of violence at the end was so emotionally draining to act out that the cast were given a week off from filming to process and heal from what they\u2019d had to depict on screen. <\/p>\n The British Channel 4 series \u2013 which is streaming locally on BINGE<\/a> \u2013 was shot in a nonlinear fashion, with star Cumming revealing that they filmed the confronting outdoor end scene first before filming all the indoor scenes. <\/p>\n \u201cGod, they brought their A-game on the day,\u201d Cumming old Tech Radar<\/a> of the cast. \u201cIt was very difficult from a technical point of view. Of course, what happens to Leo, but also keeping that energy, and also keeping yourself open to surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a week of laughter in a \u2018gap week\u2019 afterwards, which was much needed and welcomed,\u201d he added. \u201cA week off is a very expensive thing, but you\u2019ve done so much that\u2019s hanging there. When we came back to the studio we\u2019d shot all the outside bits first, so we\u2019d done the most horrible part and now we\u2019re going to be inside \u2026 back to the beginning of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n Cumming revealed he spent his \u201cgap week\u201d in New York, saying it was \u201csuch a silly experience to be away from what I was playing in my other life. It was surreal actually.\u201d<\/p>\n The graphic nature of the street scene meant it had to be \u201cheavily policed\u201d with road closures placed on that Manchester neighbourhood, said his co-star Morrissey.<\/p>\n \u201cWhere we shot outside, we had to fence off the streets with huge hoardings because the drivers going past could have seen that happening in the street and they could have been distracted,\u201d Morrissey explained. <\/p>\n \u201cThere were kids at a nearby school that would leave, and the residents association and council said they couldn\u2019t see anything, which is quite right. So it was a heavily, heavily policed thing.\u201d<\/p>\n The tragic fate of Leo in the finale was teased at the beginning of each episode<\/a> by series creator and executive producer Russell T Davies. In fact, viewers were shown Leo\u2019s lifeless body within the first 30 seconds of episode 1, and the opening of each subsequent episode showed glimpses of events that led to Clive\u2019s savage act. <\/p>\n This deliberate spoonfeeding was part of Davies\u2019 argument that people often stand by and do nothing when they see bigotry and homophobia happening in society.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the way along you\u2019ve got to a point where these people can stop the event,\u201d the creator explained of the characters in the series. \u201cThey could actually go, \u2018You know what? Let\u2019s not.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut they don\u2019t. I think to that effect, it\u2019s asking the question of when to speak up when you already knew what was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n From the outset, the red flags were there as the series told the story of Leo, a single gay bar owner, and Clive, a married father and electrician, who peacefully lived side-by-side for the past 14 years.<\/p>\n But a simple interaction kicked off a dispute between the two neighbours which unfolded over 10 days, culminating in that deadly scene that left a lasting impact on both viewers and the cast.<\/p>\n Tip Toe is now streaming on BINGE.<\/p>\n Read related topics:Binge<\/a>Foxtel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: Contains spoilers on Tip Toe, episode 5 season finale The series finale of the gripping TV drama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[45391,2095,64,63,352146,352151,247538,17057,134,2057,37058,352161,297439,268958,352158,352147,352155,352162,352160,254793,275875,1025,2041,2067,3583,352153,352154,352148,46031,352157,35454,352150,17059,276581,352156,352145,352159,77184,352152,427,3586,2614,352149],"class_list":["post-726953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alan-cumming","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-channel","tag-brutal-finale-scene","tag-christine-salazar","tag-city-of-manchester","tag-entertainment","tag-europe","tag-executive-producer","tag-fans-call","tag-final-episode","tag-final-scenes","tag-five-episode-series","tag-horrible-part","tag-horrific-scene","tag-horrific-things","tag-mates-assault","tag-ncaeditorialbinge","tag-ncaeditorialbingeprogram","tag-new-york","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-northern-europe","tag-official-series-traileralan","tag-outdoor-end-scene","tag-residents-association","tag-road-closures","tag-russell-t-davies","tag-season-finale","tag-series-creator","tag-series-finale","tag-shocks-viewers","tag-stream-tip-toe","tag-street-scene","tag-tip-toe","tag-toxic-masculinity","tag-turns-hostile","tag-tv","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-viewers-calling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}