The slow lowering of the face masks … to reveal the cheeks, the nose, the lips, then the outline of the chin, the way the chin recedes to the neck, the jawline. Ric Forster’s Lockdown Lovers star Kate Mayhew and Stevie McKeon as Kristal and Lisette, two women who share a one-night stand on the last night of the former’s trip to Australia. Despite the intimacy of their lockdown relationship dynamic, the couple don’t regret their decision to move out once restrictions were lifted: “I think it’s important that we both maintain our own space when we go back to normal life. While people may be social-distancing, the shared experience of the virus offers a new kind of proximity.

Can these two perfect strangest survive a month together or will their differences drive them apart? It’s that kind of need that you have when you feel under a lot of cortisol stress, and you want to feel as safe as possible next to somebody. A few weeks of lockdown turned into a few months, and quickly it felt like their relationship had switched up several gears. Just as “Hong Kong was waking up to see itself like it had never seen itself”, so are Phoebe, John, his wife Sue, and through them, so is the reader.He reversed restrictions and began to allow Chinese to own land and buildings in Central and to become British subjects. The strategy of building a strong fan-base, interacting with them online and building a tribe, and then capitalising through spin-off series, uncut and extended editions and/or films has proven successful for previous hit LGBT content, such as Canada’s Carmilla and Australian web-series Starting From…Now, which was picked up by SBS after three successful seasons online.

In Part I, set in Hong Kong and China, forty-something academic John Ryan goes to the local 24/7 McDonalds every day to record events around him. I think in normal times, if this had happened, people would have been, like, ‘Well, that’s so quick, why are you rushing into things?Lilydale Films, the Australian production company behind hit teen online series Flunk, has released its latest feature Lockdown Lovers.