Tip Toe cast reveal filming 'brutal' episode 5 ending to devastating Russell T Davies Channel 4 series was 'heavily policed' — 'we had to have a week off after filming'
Spoilers for Tip Toe episode 5 ahead — contains distressing themes.
If you want to feel terrible about the world around you and simultaneously as though you've been hit with a sledgehammer, binge episodes 1-5 of Tip Toe in the same day (all of which are now streaming on Channel 4).
Since last week, we've been following a rapidly unraveling feud between a pair of neighbors in Manchester: Leo (Alan Cumming), a vivacious gay bar owner on Canal Street, and Clive (David Morrissey), a conservative electrician with two teenage sons.
While creator Russell T Davies teased what was to come in each episode's cold open, we finally learned the full horror behind Leo's fate in episode 5. After turning up at Clive's unannounced during a large football gathering, Clive orchestrates Leo's public death to "make an example" of not tolerating "his sort" on their street.
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