Lox Pratt turns the gay subtexts to texts in "Lord of the Flies" and "Harry Potter." WIth Flynn and Felton backsides and Cornwall c*cks

  

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Lox Pratt is the breakout star of the 2026 Lord of the Flies tv series.  He brings a a sinuous, snakelike menace to the choirboy Jack, who rebels against Ralph's attempts to maintain order and civility on the desert island, and leads his choirboy/hunters into war-whooping, body painted savagery.

But there is a fragility to Lox Pratt's Jack that is missing in previous versions of the character.  As they prepare for the evacution, the other boys hug their parents, but Jack stands alone on a vast expanse, watching.  

He is so wounded that he can't reach out to others except through manipulation and control.  He treats Simon, who is obviously in love with him, as an underling rather than a partner, and he has no idea how to act on his explicit attraction to Ralph.  Even when Ralph takes the lead.

All versions of Jack are queer-coded, but Lox seems struggling to push it from subtext to text, from his first appearance in an androgynous choir uniform, to his last,wearing an animal skin that looks much like a mink coat, eyes downcast as Ralph explains to the rescuing Navy officer, "We were together -- before."

Next Lox is starring as Draco Malfoy in the upcoming Harry Potter tv series, premiering in December 2026.  He says that while the earlier movies and books were Harry-centric, this new series will expand on the Potter world.  He was able to dig deep  into Draco's character: he's "not just the sneering bad guy in the corner — he’s got a lot more depth.” 

Johnny Flynn, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends, plays Draco's dad, Lucius Malfoy.

Draco doesn't express any interest in girls in the books or the movies, although he has a wife in the culminating flash forward.  Maybe Lox will be allowed to present him with even more queer codes.

Tom Felton's backside on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

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"The Sister": Probably-gay guy marries the sister of the girl he helped vanish. With his ex-buddy, ghostly voices, and many backsides

 

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This morning I was checking my streaming services for new tv shows with gay content, and found The Sister on Hulu: "Almost a decade into married life, Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob, an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep."  Sounds like Bob is an old boyfriend.  I'll give it a try.

Scene 1: New Year's Eve.  In his terrible apartment, a guy is watching the news, and planning to off himself with pills and booze.  Watching the news often has that effect on people.  There's a story about a girl named Elise, who vanished three years ago.  A heartfelt plea from her family for anyone who knows anything to contact them.  This shocks the guy, and he gives up the plan.  He must know where Elise is.  

Scene 2: Seven years later.  The guy -- he must be Nathan -- has settled down to an extremely wealthy lifestyle, when there's a knock on the door: the leering, stringly-haired, sopping-wet Bob (Bertie Carvel, according to Mr. Man). 

 "No, you can't be here! We agreed!"  But Bob has news: they're digging up the woods for a new housing development.

He looks much older than Nathan, but the actors are only four years apart.

At that moment, Nathan's wife comes home.  He tells her that Bob is an old mate who dropped by because he was distraught over girl problems, and was just leaving.  Then he goes into the bathroom and hyperventilates and throws up.  There's a flashback of Nathan running through the woods.

Scene 3: In the morning, the wife thinks he's sick, and offers to pop by the chemist, but Nathan says he's fine, he just needs to stay home and rest.  When she leaves, he researches the new housiing development: Newbeck Green, controversial because it will destroy some virgin woods.  He calls Ex Buddy Bob, who tells him that they have to move fast, and asks if "it" has come yet."  Nathan doesn't know what he means.  

Nice close-up.  Even in a heteronormative project, you can always find something to look at.

He goes down to check the mail, and there it is: a CD-ROM that says "destroy after playing."

Turns out that Nathan is played by Russell Tovey (backside on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), who is gay in real life and has played gay characters about 100 times.  I wonder if Nathan is gay, too, in a lavender marriage.  That's why he and his wife haven't kissed.  Or else Russell's contract states that he won't have to kiss any icky girls.  I'd insist on it.

Scene 4:  That night Nathan drives out to the woods, and flashes back to hanging out with the missing girl there.  

Then he plays the CD-Rom; It's an indistinct voice, something like a woman saying "Nathan, I'm not dead."  This must be one of those EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) recordings you can make of ghosts in haunted houses.  My favorites are "You don't belong here" and "It's just me."

Scene 5: Flashback to seven years ago. Nathan waits in his car outside Charles Collier Sales & Letting (rentals), watching Holly, who will be his wife . 

Then he goes to his office and looks at her photo on his computer and a post-it with her work number on it.  He calls, hangs up, calls back, and asks for her.

Left: The gaydar-tinging Sam Henderson plays the receptionist.  I tried looking for n*de photos, but no matter how many key words of "men only," 'no ladies," "absolutely no women," Google always gave me ladies.

 When Holly answers, Nathan claims that he is interested in renting a house, but he can't tell her the basics, like the location and number of bedrooms.  What's with the deception? Did you see her someplace and decide to stalk her instead of starting a conversation?  She invites him to come in for a consultation tomorrow.

Back in the present: Holly wakes Nathan up: he fell asleep in front of the tv (watching the news).  They discuss whether he is feeling better, and then her job, which now apparently involves building houses, not just renting them.  Nathan tries to get some intel about the new housing development "near your mum's house."  Wait -- is Holly the sister of the missing girl?  Did Nathan see her on the newscast seven years ago, figure that she was the Girl of His Dreams, and start stalking?  Or is he feeling guilty for vanishing her sister?

He has a date with Bob, sick or not, so he leaves.

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Aidan Merwarth: Finn's wannabe boyfriend, pencil company exec, juvenile delinquent, brat. With 3 d*cks and inconclusive social media

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In Season 2 of Unprisoned, gay-coded Finn (Faly Rakotohavana) and his family go to group therapy. Mom complains  that he spends all day online, not interacting with anyone in real life, so he'll never "fall in love, get married, and have a nice life."  I'm not getting into the assumption that you have to be married to have a nice life.  The therapist assigns Finn to "make a friend," presumably a friend that he could fall in love with.

He invites Spencer (Aidan Merwarth) to his room, but doesn't want to play video games or watch tv or anything.  Dude, if you're not going to make out with him, at least give him something to do.

Spencer plays with his phone for awhile, gets bored, calls Finn a "baby" (you wanted a real man?), and leaves.  He re-appears at the college fair to taunt Finn again.  Well, can you blame him?  Dude thought he was going to at least get some smooching.

Finn remains gay-vague, his s&xual identity unconfirmed through two seasons.  

I wanted to know about this guy who is playing a gay subtext or maybe gay-text teenager.

He was born in July 2022, and grew up in San Antonio, where he was homeschooled.  So either he's a fundamentalist Christian, or he goes on so many auditions that he has no time for school. 

 

He has 133 friends on Facebook.  

He's an acrobatic gymnast.  In 2015, at the International Acro Cup in Poland. Aidan and his sister Devon won second place in the mixed pair 11-16 age range

He attended the Los Angeles Film School, graduating with a B.S. in Animation in 2025.

He has eight acting credits on the IMDB.

A Girl Named Jo (2019). on Brat TV, features two girls trying to unravel a mystery at Attaway High School in 1963.  Aidan appears in four episodes as Felix, apparently Jo's boyfriend.

Another Brat TV series, Crazy Fast (2019), has a group of outsiders join the track team at Attaway High. Colin McCalla (n*de picture on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) stars.  Aidan plays Eamon, a runner "whose past with Rowan threatens everything."

Another straight guy, darn it.

The Forgotten Place is a short about Eric (Jeff Locker), who wants a friend.  He finds one (Brian Flaccus), but apparently he means a platonic friendship.

In Saving Paradise (2021), a "ruthless corporate executive" (William Moseley) has to return to his small town when he inherits his father's struggling pencil factory. At Christmastime.  He has to save it and win The Girl (named Charlie, just to fool you into thinking there's a gay romance).

So Paradise is a pencil factory?  I guess it beats saving the annual Christmas festival.  Aidan plays the  rutless corporate executive as a teenager, already in love with The Girl.

But a pencil factory?  When was the last time you used a pencil?  Or saw one?

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Lord of the Flies (2026) channels "Lost" and "Hanging Rock," with gay-subtext Jack and Ralph, gay Simon, and n*de Samoan dudes

 

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I took journalism and creative writing in high school, so I was spared most of novels generally assigned in English class. But the journalism teacher assigned Lord of the Flies (1954). I don't know why; it's not about journalists, it's about the viciousness of the human animal.  During the War, a planeful of British middle-school boys crashes on a desert island.  They quickly devolve into savagery, worship a pig's head ("The Lord of the Flies"), and divide into warring tribes led by "let's try to remain calm" Ralph and "kill them all!" Jack.

I found a gay subtext in the soft, femme Jack's interest in Ralph (before they split into good/evil camps), so I'm interested in whether it continues in the 2026 tv miniseries (streaming on Netflix in the U.S.)

Scene 1: Piggy (David McKenna) awakens in the jungle in a scene reminiscent of Jack in Lost.  He wanders around, picks some mangos, and finally, sees another boy, who mysteriously doesn't want to talk. So he's a ghost?  

But Piggy insists.  He's Ralph  (Winston Sawyers), who doesn't remember how they got there, and hasn't seen any houses or people. 

They find a stream, so they can drink.  Ralph has a swim, but Piggy doesn't want to.  

Scene 2: At the beach, they find a conch shell, and blow it to summon any others.   A third boy approaches, with pigment around his eye, either a bruise or a visual difference.  And another and another, until 30 boys have arrived, both 10-12 year old Big-uns and 5-6 year old Little-uns.   We get face shots of most of them.  How does a plane crash deposit the survivors in widely different locations, alive?

Suddenly we hear ethereal music, the screen is bathed in sunlight, and we get a vision of kids wearing strange hats and long black robes.  They look like they're from Hogwarts. So there's already a society of wizards on the island?  I don't recall that from the book.

More face shots.  Turns out that they are a choir, dressed in the uniforms of Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. Somehow they managed to be ejected from the plane with no scrapes or bruises, and all together.  I'm disappointed.  How is this scene not an intentional misdirection?

Suddenly choirboy Simon (Ike Talbut) faints.  Leader Jack (Lox Pratt) orders the others to "let him be.  Simon's always throwing a faint."

Piggy suggests that the next course of action should be to find out where they are, and what happened to the grownups.  Ralph overrules him: the first thing to do is elect a chief.  Head Choirboy Jack wants the job. 

All of the choirboys vote for him, after he glares menacingly, but the other boys all vote for Ralph, who wins.  Jack glares menacingly again, and suggests that he should be the leader of the hunting team.  Lox Pratt is  gazing menacingly in almost all of his Instagram photos.  He's also playing Draco in the new "Harry Potter" series.

Scene 3:  A team consisting of Jack, Piggy, Fainting Simon, and Chief Ralph hike out to see where they are (they have no reason to believe that it's a desert island; there could be a native village just down the beach).  

They find the body of the pilot, already covered with flies, and conclude that all of the grownups on the plane are dead, as they weren't in "the passenger tube" (the fuselage).

Should they bury him?  No, Jack says: he made a mistake, and stranded all of us here.  He should pay for his crime.  So they push him into the ocean instead.

Scene 4:  Shots of the boys investigating local bugs and amphibians.  A close-up face shot of a boy watching them. Maybe Roger (Thomas Connor)?   It lasts for an uncomfortably long time.  What is the point of this?  Is he an outsider, someone who was already on the island?  A malevolent force?

Chief Ralph and his team return to tell everyone the bad news: they're on an island with no human habitation, and the grownups are all dead, so they're on their own.  

"Ok, we'll go off and hunt some wild boars for dinner."  Jack tries to lead his hunters away, but Chief Ralph says "Please don't go until we have a plan."

"I like it when you say 'please.'"  Dude wants to be in charge of Ralph.  That's a queer code.

 Piggy suggests that they need three things: a signal fire, shelter, and a latrine, in three different locations.  One of the little ones interrupts to say that they also need to take care of the Beast that's been hovering about.

Long, slow shots of plants, animals, and rocks that look like beasts.

The boy continues to stare for an endless facial shot.  I'm fast-forwarding. 

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