“Olivia,” the fifth webiso of High Matenance, troduc Max (Max Jenks), a gay twentysomethg “wastg away retail,” and his roommate and...
Contents:
- HIGH MATENANCE GIV US A BRILLIANT DENSTCTN OF THE “GAY BT FRIEND” TROPE
- HOW HIGH MATENANCE SUBVERTS THE STEREOTYP OF THE GAY MAN–STRAIGHT WOMAN RELATNSHIP
- HIGH MATENANCE’S ASSHOL MAX AND HELéNE ON TOXIC RELATNSHIPS, RUPL, AND THE SYNDROME OF GAY LGHTER
HIGH MATENANCE GIV US A BRILLIANT DENSTCTN OF THE “GAY BT FRIEND” TROPE
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“Olivia, ” the fifth webiso of High Matenance, troduc Max (Max Jenks), a gay twentysomethg “wastg away retail, ” and his roommate and bt iend, Laey (Heléne Yorke). That was: until the HBO episo “Meth(od)” fally challenged our perceptn of the trope of the “gay bt iend.
In effect, Act 2 of “Meth(od)” plays like a reful medatn on the gay bt iend TV trope.
HOW HIGH MATENANCE SUBVERTS THE STEREOTYP OF THE GAY MAN–STRAIGHT WOMAN RELATNSHIP
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HIGH MATENANCE’S ASSHOL MAX AND HELéNE ON TOXIC RELATNSHIPS, RUPL, AND THE SYNDROME OF GAY LGHTER
We’ve seen untls straight women wh their gay bt iends on TV but never like this.
High Matenance’s Max and Laey are a faiar pair of misanthrop: a gay male and straight female duo where each enurag the other’s rottenns a game of one-upmanship. We’ve seen untls straight women wh their gay bt iends, but never que like this. The episo begs at a bachelorette party, wh Max as the token gay male among a gaggle of blons.