S2Ep2: Golden Syrup

By 1953 Orton and Halliwell are both realizing they don’t have what it takes to make it as actors, but no matter, Halliwell is going to be a famous novelist and Joe, the less-educated and cultivated of the two, well, he’s going to be Kenneth’s secretary. In time though, Joe recognizes his own passion and talent for writing and the two men start writing collaboratively, determined to make it big. Shunning society and material comfort they spend the better part of a decade locked in their bedsit writing and living off rice, sardines and golden syrup. By decade’s end they’ve written a handful of novels and plays all of which have been promptly turned down by publishers. The men not only feel rejected, they feel angry.  And they’re going to do something about it…