The Top 10 Hunks of "Dear White People," Season 3

Dear White People (2014) was a drama with comedic elements about a radio show that points out microaggressions and white privilege at an elite Ivy League college.

The first season of the Netflix tv adaption (2017) continued the story, with the Winchester students dealing with unconscious (and conscious) racism, police targeting, cultural appropriation, and so on.  Still a drama with comedic elements.

The second season (2018) was more comedy than drama, with some attention to white supremacy, institutional racism, and a conservative "why do black people complain all the time" group.  Plus Lionel gets a boyfriend.  It bogs down in a ridiculous plotline about a secret society that controls the world leaving DaVinci Code clues around the campus.

In its third season (2019), Dear White People has become a comedy.  There doesn't seem to be an ongoing plot arc, just micro-plots about selecting a film studies mentor, unionizing, dating, embarrassing moms, and a sex club. Most of the time I have no idea what's going on, and I don't really care. I'm just watching for the Lionel plotlines.  And for the beefcake.

Here are the top 10 hunks of Season 3.  I'm omitting the ones covered (or rather, uncovered) in my previous review (Gabe, Lionel, Reggie, Kurt, Al, and Kordell).

1. Mason Trueblood (top photo) as Colin, a writer for the Pastiche humor magazine (aka Harvard Lampoon).  One of the main plotlines of Season 3 involves Pastiche writers trying to find their own voices, and a female writer being ignored.

2. Kobi Kumi-Diaka (left) as  Jimiyu, a Nigerian student with a crush on someone or other.

3. Jeremy Tardy as Rashid, a member of the Black Student Union, the more conservative black organization on campus.

4. Blair Underwood as Professor Moses Brown, who left after he became rich with an app he developed, but returned because...he wants to nurture young minds?

5. Erich Lane as Clifton, Reggie's roommate, who spends his time doing whatever it is that white people do.  I liked the scene where he changes clothes in front of Reggie, displaying his package and everything (nothing seen on camera).

6. Glenn McCuen as Chet Fuckboi.  I don't remember this character, in spite of the name.


















7.  Alex Alcheh as Milo, one of the graduate teaching assistants.


8. Ryan Alexander Holmes as Nicholas.  I don't know who this character is, but who cares? The actor is hot.

9. Wade F. Wilson as Michael, who insults Lionel at the sex party, and then asks him out.

10. Eugene Ko (left) as Jesse, one of the graduate teaching assistants.  It's about time the show added an Asian character.  Racism isn't all about black and white.

Now, if they can only get him to take his shirt off.

See also:Dear White People

20 Harvard Hunks

Every time I go to Boston, I have to visit Harvard University, the Oxford of the U.S., our oldest and most prestigious university, where 6,700 students, the elite of the elite, move toward the bright future mapped out for them before they were born.  They may become the Bill Gates, Barack Obama...um, or Jared Kushner.  They may found a new Facebook.  They may write for sitcoms.

I am always surprised by how ordinary the campus looks.  No vast Gothic quads, like at Oxford, or for that matter the University of Chicago.  There are a few Colonial buildings, but mostly it's plain brownstone, with an occasional glass-and-steel science lab thrown in. The Widener Library could be any library in the world.

Cross Harvard Yard, and you come to a Tasty Burger, an IHOP, and a...a...Chipotle.

And how ordinary the students look.  Not at all the children of the top 1% of the top 1%, with private yachts and guest houses in St. Moritz and Barack Obama in their phone contacts.   They could be any rich kids from any college, except that they're majoring in Lithuanian Gender Politics and Akkadian Funerary Incantations, and taking courses like From Byzantium to the British Isles: The Materiality of Late Antiquity.

Who am I kidding?  Most of them are majoring in economics or political science, necessary for their lives in halls of power.


I'm always surprised that Harvard has sports.  What jocks want to study Medieval Catalan Poetry?

Actually, that sounds rather interesting.

Who knew that a brief google search would turn up 38 Harvard hunks?

1. A hunky swimmer (top photo).

2. A spandex-straining wrestler (notice the VE RI TAS on his side).

3-4 Members of the Harvard Crew (rowing team) getting dressed.

5-10.  And what they look like dressed.  How are we expected to keep our eyes above the belt?

11. A PETA protester, arrested in Harvard Yard.  For trespassing or public nudity?

12.-14.  Some miscellaneous semi-nude and nude guys in a story entitled "Who Can Go Naked at Harvard?"

Lots of guys, apparently.

15-17.  Some guys getting "out of the Harvard Bubble" at the beach.  Martha's Vineyard, no doubt.

18-20.  "The Harvard Swim Team Cares."  I don't know who they care about, but I'll count the three guys with chests.