Review: In 'Butterfly,' gender identity is at the heart of Hulu's new family drama
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Jan 17, 2019
3 minutes
"Butterfly," a British production premiering Friday on Hulu, is a thought-provoking, emotionally realistic issue drama on the subject of gender identity in young people - well, really, just one particular young person, 12-year-old Max Duffy (Callum Booth-Ford) from Manchester, who would like to be known as Maxine.
There is strife ahead, to be sure, but this is not a dour, sentimental exercise in which the misunderstood subject comes to a sad end while the survivors rend their governments and excoriate themselves for never
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