Fool Me Once star Emmett J Scanlan’s series Butterfly has just found a new streaming home in the UK.
Originally released in 2018 to wide critical acclaim, the ITV drama was added today (29 August) to Prime Video in the UK and Ireland. It’s also available on Netflix, but you’ll have to hurry up – the show is being removed there on 11 September.
The series focuses on 11-year-old Maxine (played by Callum Booth-Ford), who starts to realise that she is a transgender girl. Scanlan and Anna Friel play her separated parents, Stephen and Vicky, as they begin to accept her transition.
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Tony Marchant penned the scripts and created the three-part series, which was informed by his meetings with transgender people and their families through trans charity Mermaids.
The show’s portrayal received positive reception from the trans community, with former Emmerdale star Ash Palmisciano 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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At the time of release, the show received a warm reception from critics, who praised the “brilliant performances” and called its story “truthful, beautiful and powerful” (via The Guardian).
The Independent’s Sean O’Grady hailed it as an “excellent drama” and “a landmark ITV series”, while The Telegraph’s Gabriel Tate described it as a “well-intended, carefully calibrated pushback against lazy prejudice or rushes to judgment”.
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Another series with the same title, albeit with a very different story, was recently released on Prime Video, with the action-packed Butterfly following a former US intelligence officer (played by Daniel Dae Kim) as he becomes the target of an assassin in South Korea.
The show, which became a streaming hit earlier this month, also stars Piper Perabo, Park Hae-soo, Charles Parnell, Reina Hardesty and Sung Joon.
Butterfly starring Emmett J Scanlan is now available to watch on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland. It’s also available to stream on Netflix on September 11.
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