In Mosaic (2017), con artist Eric (Frederick Weller) has been convicted of murdering his latest con victim, famous children's author Olivia Lake. His sister Petra thinks he's innocent, and begins investigating the other men in Olivia's life: "she liked to surround herself with young guys."
First up: Joel (Garrett Hedlund, left), an aspiring artist who used to live on Olivia's property. He's not a suspect -- he was at a 10:00 pm showing of The Hobbit with male friend at the time of the murder. Or was he? Maybe the buddy lied to protect him. Wait -- male friend? Is this guy gay?
Cut to Joel living a "normal" life in backwoods Slidell, Louisiana, running a company called Big Bayou Gator Guides. He motors a man and his two kids (James, Kelton, and Sinclair Dumont) into the swamp to look at alligators. Scratch that -- he helps Kelton shoot one!
Violent rite of passage, I guess. Then he helps them pack the meat into a chest marked "Not for Sale," and gives them the name of a taxidermist.
Petra intrudes upon Joel's alligator-skull-filled shop with questions about her brother and the dead author: "Look, I hardly knew him!" he exclaims. I heard that before. Were they dating? Joel is living with a guy. He is definitely gay.
Nope. I shouldn't watch these episodes out of order. In Episode 1, Olivia the famous author and her gay bestie JC (Paul Reubens, best known as Pee Wee Herman) compete for the attention of handsome bartender Joel. He chooses the old lady over the old dude. Plus he hooked up with a girl on New Year's Eve. Straight.
But there's more gay content: Petra and Joel investigate the "story walk" with pop-up from Olviia's book, Whose Woods These Are. When he lived on her property, Joel used to take walks there, and one night he stumbled upon two guys going at it. One turns out to be Cameron, the chief suspect.
Two gay guys, and one isn't even a suspect! I may have to watch the rest of this.
The NSFW version, with lots of rears and a frontal is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends