RYAN O’CONNELL.

“I ‘ve been completely overwhelmed by the love and support I’ve had from the disabled community,” Ryan O’Connell tells me on the phone direct from New York where he’s been plowing through interviews for his groundbreaking new Netflix show Special – proudly hiding no part of his queerness or cerebral palsy in any conversation.

“It’s been really, really surreal to be honest! I feel like I always believed in what we were doing and what we made, but to have people as bowled over as they are is incredibly emotional and surreal,” he says. “The messages I’ve been getting from people who are disabled, and gay, or gay and disabled, or just even not is overwhelming and I can’t wait to unpack it with my therapist!”

Written and led on screen by Ryan, the eight excellent 15-minute episodes take inspiration