Jan 9, 2020

Josh Charles or Somebody Plays a Gay Guy in Something or Other

Last night before going to bed, I was watching the horrible second season of Lost in Space and reading my Facebook feed.  I came across an article about a new tv series starring Josh Charles, who starred in the New Zealand comedy-drama Please Like Me.

He plays a 25-year old still living at home with his single dad and two teenage sisters, one of whom is autistic. When Dad dies (no doubt a slow, lingering death with a deathbed scene), he finds himself "the adult" of the family.

Sounds like Party of Five. Except in the promo,  which mostly depicts the trio frolicking, Josh is shown kissing a guy.  He's gay!

In the morning, I couldn't find the article again, and there was nothing else about the tv show online. It wasn't listed on IMDB or Wikipedia. Could I have dreamed the wholething?

The title was Everything's Going to be Fine or something like that.  Google was no help at all.

First I searched on Everything is Going to be Fine and "tv series":

  • A quote from the 2013 novel Summer Day's Dream
  • An episode of Black Books.
  • An episode of The Office.
  • A quote from the website WRAL Sports Fans.


Then Everything's Going to Be Okay:

  • A scene from Monsters, Inc.
  • Good Wife star Josh Charles on the shocking death of his character.
  • Cris Velasco's original GYLT game show.  Does GYLT stands for Gay Young Latinx Transmen?
  • Girlfriend review on twitter: Tato says everything's going to be ok.


Maybe it's Everything's Going to be OK?

  • A quote from the novel Things Jolie needs to do before she bites it
  • A tv series probably entitled Kevin (probably) saves the world
  • A quote from the 1970s sitcom Good Times (1974)
  • A clip from Lost in Space.



The only other thing I remembered was the New Zealand comedy drama Please Like Me.

Success!  Turns out it was set in Australia, not New Zealand, and it starred Josh Thomas, not Josh Charles.

In the first episode, Josh's girlfriend dumps him because she thinks he's gay.  He thought he was just "going through a phase."

So he invites a gay guy named Geoffrey with a G (Wade Briggs) to dinner with his overbearing roommate Tom (Thomas Ward) and Tom's girlfriend, whom he wants to dump.  Dumb idea for a first date!  Josh and Geoffrey spend the night together but don't have sex.  They wake up in the morning to find that Josh's mother has attempted suicide.

Whoa, drama.  If I was Geoffrey, I'd be out of there!  But he becomes a main character, along with Tom, the girlfriend, institutionalized Mom, Josh's new boyfriends (whom he usually doesn't have sex with), and four season's worth of dying relatives.  It sounds like a Howard Cruse comic strip come to life.

Being apprised of the real name of the star, I was able to find his new tv series on IMDB.  The title is actually Everything's Gonna Be Ok, and there are four episode synopses:

1. Nicholas (Josh Thomas) volunteers to be his sister's guardians when his dad dies of "very bad cancer" (as opposed to good cancer?).

2. Nicholas and the two girls try to go back to their routine.

3. Matilda wants to get "white girl wasted" (sounds racist).  Matilda, Nicholas, and his boyfriend Alex (Adam Faison) are banished to the guest house during Genevive's party.


4. Nicholas is bad at sex (well, it works better if you take your underwear off).  In the B plot, Matilda tries to bake Luke a cake (Luke does not appear in the character list).

After all that work, it sounds terrible.  I'm giving it a hard pass.

I couldn't have watched anyway.  It's not available on Netflix, Vudu, Amazon Prime, or Youtube.








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