Link to the d*cks
He shouldn't have a problem finding boyfriends. Like I said, the guy is big.
Scene 1: 2013: Jack's first year at Uni. He can't get into the dorms, so the university moved him and "mature" 25-year old Danny into an off-campus shed. Mom is helping them decorate.
She gives Jack some Tupperware for his marijuana, although he doesn't use, and a live-laugh-love mobile so he can "live," "have some laughs with a girl," and "fall in love." So Mum is fine with marijuana, but you're not out? Surely she already knows.
When she leaves to help "erect a shelf" with her "big tool," Danny (Jon Pointing) gives Jack a bottle of lube -- they were two for one at Boots -- but he's not sure if backsides take a different kind. Jack isn't sure either, since he's never been with a guy before.
"Don't worry, I'll do some research. We'll have you sliding in and out of fit lads like Cantonia in the '96 cup." A football (soccer) match. Danny is a jock.
Scene 2: The Student Union Officer announces the "ca-razy" Brent Uni freshers fair, where the first-years try to find their fams. Older Jack, narrating: "Mostly it was second-year drug dealers trying to recruit new clients."
She tries to sell Jack on the Christian Union, which does a free roast on Sunday nights. Maybe not.
Roommate Danny points out the LGBTQAIA Student Union. Jack is afraid to approach, but Danny insists: "You can't be a little saddo all your life." Why did he make Jack his project?
"But what does the QAIA mean?"
"Queer, Asexual, Intersexed, Allies." Blimey, when a straight guy knows more than you do....
Uh-oh, Jack sees Yemi (Odisa Odele), the guy he was trying to make out with at the Fresher Mixer last episode. While they were kissing, his hair got caught in the guy's nose ring. They had to get the Faculty Advisor to cut them loose. Yemi tries to ignore him, but reconsiders (you think he's hot, or feel sorry for him?). He talks about about the various gay tribes: twink, bear, daddy, pos, otter, trans, and geek. Jack is obviously a geek.
They're all going clubbing in London tonight. Wanna come?
Meanwhile, Danny tries to pick up a woman at the Feminist Society table by pushing the free tampons and claiming to be interested in women writers. Name two. Corinne, a lesbian, interrupts to point out the inconsistencies in his story, but it works: the woman he was cruising invites him to a pre-lash tonight (a private drinking party before you head to the clubs).Scene 3: Roommate Danny wants Jack to skip the gay clubbing and go to the pre-lash with him, so they can meet some of their fellow students. They need mates on campus. Danny is setting himself up as a mentor, but he needs a friend as much as Jack does. He must have some tragedies and pain in his background, to be revealed later.
Montage of the two getting ready, Danny by working out so he's nicely swole, Jack by reading so he can have an intelligent conversation.
Uh-oh, the Security Guard, whose name is Ru Pal, stops them. Only dormitory residents and signed-in guests, no townies.
Ok, Danny insists that Jack go to the gay club after all, and he'll stay home, "cooped up like Anne Frank." Not quite the same thing, buddy.
Scene 4: Danny is sitting on a bench on campus, trying ineptly to start conversations with passersby, when Corinne, the lesbian from earlier, runs into him. They argue about feminism. Her back story: she was the only one in her friend group to get rejected by Oxford and Cambridge. This is her dull, mundane, state-university-type safety school, full of jocks and eejits. Wait -- they're doing "You're arrogant!" flirtation arguing. Is she actually a lesbian, or did I just assume because of her outfit and hair style?
Jack passes by on his way to the pick-up for the gay club, and invites them along.
Scene 5: "No way! They cannot come!" Yemi, Jack's mentor, yells. "Gays only!" But their driver says it's fine.Older Jack, narrating: "It's scary going to your first gay club, 'cause the vast majority are called things like Savage, or Envy, or Revenge." What about Heaven?
At the club, Gordy's, the drag queen bouncer sizes up Danny: "Straight allies are welcome, but any funny business, f*cking around, laddy banter, any pretending to be Louis Spencer, and you're out!" Louis Spencer is King Charles' nephew, a 30-year old theatrical actor. I don't know what the drag queen is talking about.
Scene 6: Clubbers dancing, drinking, hugging, and whooping. Older Jack narrating: "In spite of being individual misfits, we spent the whole night together." So this series will be about the various problems of the friendship group.
Danny gets cruised by an obnoxious guy, but gets rid of him by claiming that he comes to London to visit his cousin in Wormwood Scrubs -- a prison.
I thought Obnoxious Guy was played by Gordon 'Gordy' Maxwell, to whom the episode is dedicated. There's a memorial article on the Minka Guides website, which describes him as a tv producer and a regular at the Sink the Pink Nightclub. Except he was over 40, and the episode aired in May 2022, several years after his death in December 2018. Wait -- the club is named "Gordy's." That's the homage.
More after the break.
Obnoxious Guy may be played by Jack Shep, who has three acting credits on the IMDB: Maximilian the Posh Gay on Big Boys (2022); Rory on One Day (2024), about a heterosexual romance in 1988; and Richard on Changing Ends (2024), about the early life of comedian Alan Carr.
On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: Shep d*ck, unless I got my files mixed up and it's Dylan Llewellan or Jon Pointing.
Scene 7: More dancing in slow motion, and then Jack and Mentor Yemi want to hit the dark room and get some guys' d*cks inside them. Danny doesn't care to go; Not-Lesbian Corinne is anxious to see some d*cks inside some guys, but no women allowed. She gets rowdy, and is thrown in the Creche (gay club jail).
Danny yells "Oi! Oi! Oi!," laddy banter, so he can get thrown in the Creche, too. They hug, and Corinne invites herself back to Danny's place for...you know. He doesn't, not for a moment anyway. Dude is a bit dense.
Scene 8: Meanwhile, in the dark room (we don't see anything), Jack is clinging to Mento Yemi, terrified. Older Jack, narrating: "Nothing quite prepares you for a room that smells of damp moss, Paco Rabane, and poo."
Cut to the horrified Jack outside. "Did someone touch you without permission?" In a dark room, how would you go about getting permission? They grab first, and if you're not into it, you push them away.
"No, but I saw a man with his arm inside another man."
The Drag Queen Bouncer, who is also Evan the Manageress, assures him that it gets easier. If he wants a d*ck rather than an arm inside him, he should try some poppers to open things up a bit.
Jack takes the vial of poppers -- and both the Drag Queen Bouncer and Mentor Yemi yell "No!" and rush toward him as they see what he is about to do ...he drinks it!
Cut to him lying on the floor, bleeding from the nose, while the others yell at him for doing somethiing so stupid, that could get them both in trouble. They call him an Uber. Not an ambulance?
Scene 9: Back at the Shed, Danny and Not-Lesbian Corinne smooch as they fall down on the bed. Danny takes his shirt off, and...nothing happens. They try and try, but he can't come to attention. Corinne figures that it must be a side effect of the anti-depressants on the night stand, but it's ok: they can still be pals.
Scene 10: After the Saturday night debacle, Danny and Jack decide to score some free food by pretending to be religious and going to the Christian Union's Sunday night roast. Security Guard Ru Pal tries to keep them out, but they have passes. Older Jack, narrating: "It was at that moment that I realized I had found my crew. And it was you, Ru Pal, and some campus Christians." The end.
Beefcake: Danny takes off his shirt a lot.
Heterosexism: Danny and Corinne smooch for 13 minutes.
Gay Characters: Lots
Angst and Trauma: Just hints so far, but from the episode synopses, it looks like depression, an estranged father, an abortion, alcoholism, prison, someone in a hospice, dementia, and several deaths.
Update: Radio Times has a season finale spoiler. Danny becomes more and more depressed over his various traumas, and finally....
WTF? Why on Earth would anyone write an ending like that? I'm depressed after just one episode; imagine spending three years with these characters, watching episode after episode, only to have it end like that? It would be devastating.
F*ck the Sadness. How about a nice episode of Workaholics?
Or The Strongest Men in History?
Or a photo of Gavin Munn -- he's always in a good mood.
My Grade: A- for the episode, the minus for that weird incest bit in the prologue, but knowing how it's going to turn out, F---. Add about a dozen more minuses.
Bonus: Another Dylan Llewellan d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends. He's straight in real life, but he appears to enjoy wearing ladies' underwear, which makes him a sort of straight drag queen.
"Bad Ideas with Adam Devine": When you need to F*k the Sadness in a hurry.
"The Strongest Men in History": Robert Oberst and his pals recreate Viking challenges
Robert Oberst and the World's Strongest Men. Yes, some of them are n*de
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