Pieces of an Idol
In development
A limited series for television
Pieces of an Idol is a psychologically charged, queer-led period drama about identity, desire, and the cost of being seen, unfolding across two interwoven timelines:
In 1949, twenty-four year-old Patrick Glassman, a working-class actor from Elephant and Castle, is abruptly discovered by a Hollywood film studio filming in London. Rebranded as Patrick Glass, he is cast in a prestige film opposite Jackson Harper, a charismatic but embattled American movie star whose public image masks his homosexuality. As Patrick is drawn deeper into the studio system — renamed, reshaped, and surveilled — his intoxicating, dangerous bond with Jackson becomes both an awakening and a trap. The closer Patrick gets to the man he idolises, the more he risks losing himself.
In 2016, Patrick is now Pat, a bitter, reclusive ninety-one-year-old living under the watchful control of his son George, who has inherited the same systems of domination Patrick once endured. When Olena, a young refugee, arrives as Pat’s carer, her presence begins to crack open the sealed past. Intelligent, observant, and unafraid of truth, Olena recognises the patterns of control and erasure Pat has normalised — and quietly challenges him to reckon with the betrayals he has spent a lifetime denying - and to reclaim the queer love that he once lost.
As the two timelines mirror and collide, the series explores how idols are constructed, how desire is policed, and how survival can become a form of self-erasure.
