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Scene 1: 2016. Brock and his wife are celebrating their anniversary, discussing how much activity they're going to have tonight. Whoops, they forgot that their son Corby (Wyatt Walter) is sitting at the table with them. Why bring your son to your anniversary dinner? Have him order a pizza.
Brock is a manager now, so they'll be able to buy a house. Never say that on tv, or you're doomed.
Uh-oh, phone call: It's the Boss, firing him for incompetence. Brock switches from begging not to be fired to yelling "F*k F*k F*k!"
Scene 2: 2018. Brock is lying in bed, talking to himself about how great he is: "I can kill a python with my bare hands!" But he's also sensitive; he cries when he thinks of his mother passing -- "women eat that stuff up." He appeals to all four quadrants: kings, queens, teens, tweens, and men." Aren't the kings men? He just needs a partner to help monetize his fan base.
Son Corby asks why he's been sleeping in the guest room for the last month, and suggests marital counseling, but nope: "Your mother and I are fine."
Scene 3: At breakfast, Brock suggests a video where he's out catching pythons in open jeans, so viewers can see his backside-- a tactic sure to draw followers. His wife thinks that his goal of becoming an influencer is misguided, but he insists: one guy makes $190,000 a year letting spiders bite him.
"Is he hot?"
"Um...yeah, incredibly hot, but...is that important?" Brock is bi.
He's got a meeting with viral marketing pros today that will make his career.
Scene 3: While driving Corby to school, Brock tries to bond by bragging about the big car they're going to get when he's internet-rich, but "I don't care what kind of car you drive." This depresses Brock: "WHen I was a kid, I worshipped my Dad."
Scene 4: Brock giving his pitch at the Viral Marketing Agency. "We want you to be sponsored by a major tobacco company."
"Fine, no moral qualms here. I'm not some fucking weird-ass pussy." I forgot to mention that Brock is a terrible person. They all are.
Actually, they want him to cast negative social attention on vaping, so kids will try cigarettes instead: use a vape pen all day, while secretly taking poison, so: "Your liver will give out, but you won't die, as long as you get to the hospital in time." It pays $8,000.
"Don't you have any regular advertising, like gloves?"
You need a million followers for that, and he only has 150,000.
Scene 5: A depressed Brock looks at one of his python-catching Youtube videos, and wonders why it has only 150 views. He accidentally clicks on the Flo Boys (Chris Mason, Luke Mullen), whose video got 1,000,000 views in an hour. They're a Christian prankster team: after they pray, they dare Intern Kyle (Trey Best) to eat some mace-covered chicken wings. He runs away sobbing.
Luke Mullen played the first identified gay character on a Disney Channel program, in Andi Mack. He mentions a girlfriend in an interview, but his Instagram is full of pictures with male friends.
Back to Killing It:
Brock calls his son Corby and shows him the video. "Look who's sitting with the Boys -- Kevin Brailing, the Kingmaker!" He's got 120 million subscribers; he can make or break online influencers.
Cut to the Kingmaker being interviewed. "I can get anyone 2 million followers," he announces. The downside: he's making content constantly, with no time for shopping or having friends.
The Flo Boys are based in Miami, which means that the Kingmaker is in Miami right now!
Scene 6: While on the way to the Flo Boys' house, Brock gets a call from the Viral Marketing people: some boys in Ohio got poisoned from vaping, so theyr'e going to use them instead.
He yells: "Lose my number. My life has value. I have a family, I have talent, and i'm on my way to a meeting.
Crash, explosion!
More after the break
Scene 7: Brock awakens to the Flo Boys hovering over him, and yelling at Intern Kyle, who didn't clear off all of the landmines from the last prank.
The Kingmaker appears to angelic music, walking in slow motion, his hair blowing in the wind, a cliched "love at first sight" shot that cuts to him yelling at the Flo Boys. "Act your age! This man is hurt. We need to get him inside." He smiles at Brock: "We have a doctor here who's going to examine you." So the Kingmaker is a good guy?
The Kingmaker is gay-coded, with heavy makeup and multiple rings, and actor John Early is gay in real life.
Scene 8: Dr. Ben tells Brock that he's lucky to be alive, he just needs to get some rest and stay hydrated. The Flo Boys try to spin the accident into a show, how "God is always watching over us."
Kingmaker: "Nope, no religious shows today."
Kingmaker agrees to take a look at Brock's content.
Scene 9: Kingmaker evaluates/flirts with Brock: kind of old, but a zaddy, if you keep the camera off his legs. But his videos need to be more professional.
"My son films them. It's something we do together."
"Fire him." So Kingmaker isn't a good guy?
Kingmaker continues: "What was this period of low content?"
"My mother died, and I was depressed..."
"No excuses! The Flo Boys had the chance to meet their birth mother, but it would have meant taking a day off from content creation, so they had to skip it."
Kingmaker agrees to a collaboration with the Flo Boys.
Scene 10: Cut to the pool, where Doctor Ben is doing Brock's makeup. Kingmaker advises that they need "a cute, funny, sexy, adventurous video." Plus they need to play to Brock's skill set, catching snakes.
They bring out a rattlesnake that they used for a prank last month.
"But I catch non-venemous pythons!"
Tough, catch the snake!
"But I need gloves and snake tongs."
Just grab it with your bare hands!
He successfully grabs it. The Boys are ecstatic. "Don't you love it when God comes through?"
Scene 11: Dinner with the Flo Boys, Brock, Doctor Ben, and Intern Kyle. They pray that God will grant them increased engagement across all platforms, "and please let the girls that slide into DMS be over 18." The boys are straight? But they keep grabbing on each other.
If they're going to collaborate, Brock needs to sign an agreement relieving them of liability due to injuries caused by pranks.
Afterwards the guys ask him to spend the night. Why, do they want a three-way? But he wants to go home to see his kid. His truck blew up earlier, so they lend him their big, fancy car.
Scene 12: Driving with his big, fancy car. Wife and son ask what happened. "I did it! I flipped the script!"
He invites his Son Corby back to see the Flo Boys' mansion.
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Scene 13: When they arrive at the house, Doctor Ben takes the car keys and tells him that he has orders from the Kingmaker to never let him in the house again. What happened?
Brock pushes past him and runs into the house.
The boys, in the pool, are happy to see him, but Kingmake is yelling, "You can't be here! Ben, why didn't you stop him!"
Brock wants to know what's going on. Kingmaker explains: "I can't have you distracting the boys. Because of you, they made no content today."
What about the rattlesnake video? "I can't post a video of the boys hanging out with a 45-year old man! Teenage girls don't want to see some sad dad grab a snake! It's sad and weird!"
But you were so nice before, flirting with Brock and everything.
"I just needed you to sign waivers so you wouldn't sue for the landmine thing. The end."
"But we like Brock!" The Boys exclaim.
"You can never see him again. I'm just trying to protect you."
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Scene 14: While waiting for their Uber, Brock and his son and have a heart to heart: two years ago, Brock was trying to get fired, because he was tired of being average. He wanted to be special.
He loves making content, but he's too old, his equipment is outdated, and he's broke. Corby suggests selling the $5,000 cross necklace that he swiped from the Flo Boys!
Cut to them spending the money from the pawn shop on professional-grade equipment. And a drone.
In a postlude, we move forward to the present, with the drone capturing images of focus characters Craig and Isaiah burying a body in the swamp.
Beefcake: The Flo Boys in the pool.
Heterosexism: Not much. Brock's marital problems are not really addressed. The Boys mention girls in an aside.
Gay Characters: The Boys have a gay-subtext. The Kingmaker is an old-school gay/femme villain, but the stereotype is mediated by Brock's obvious attraction to him.
My Grade: B.
Bonus: The electronics store clerk is played by model Markell Williams
See also: The Mick, Episode 1.12: Strong gay subtext and ample beefcake in this gloomfest.
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