Everyone Is Doing Great: Seth and Jeremy were the stars of a vampire drama. Five years after the show ended, "they lean on each other as they awkwardly navigate the perils of life and love in a late coming-of-age."
"Leaning on each other" is what boyfriends do. So are they a gay couple, or is the blurb just a tease?
Evidence for the tease:
1. Three of the five stars listed are women.
2. Seth and Jeremy are played by creators . James Lafferty (left) and Stephen Colletti (below), who starred on the teen soap One Tree Hill (2003-2012). I never actually watched, but apparently it was a big deal, back in the day. There was one minor LGBTQ character, Anna, who comes to One Tree Hill to escape rumors that she's gay, dates a boy, kisses a girl, gets called a "dyke," comes out, and leaves town. Sounds retro, like those "very special episodes" of the 1980s.
3. No doubt Doing Great is autobiographical., based on the experience of being ultra-famous and then not. But neither of the two creators/stars have any contemporary photos without their arms around a lady, so either they're both heterosexual, or trying hard to demonstrate that they are. Maybe Seth and Jeremy are "leaning on each other" as placeholders to pass the time until the Girls of Their Dreams show up.
4. I did a key word search on the title and "gay," and found an article on "The Ten Worst Episodes" of the series, with the phrase "Always unfunny British and gay people LOL." However, the article itself contained no text, just a title.
5. Decider spilled the beans: One of the guys is married to a woman; the other has lots of sex with female hotties. They both get drunk, snort coke, throw up, and bemoan their current lack of work.
Verdict: A tease
Wait -- only eight episodes were produced? What kind of tv series is that? You need at least 30 if there's an ongoing plot arc, or at least 60 if it's a problem-of-the-week. How else are you going to get to know the characters and make them a part of your life? Eight episodes is not even worth bothering with.
I spent almost as much time trying to find out if the show was about gay partners than it would have taken to watch it.
The trailer shows two thirty year old straight dudes hanging out with girls as much as each other- this sounds like a self finance vanity production
ReplyDeleteI should probably start watching trailers first, before conducting the research, but the research is the fun part.
DeleteLafferty was in a movie called "Boys on the Run" (2003)
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