'The gays' of 'The Whe Lot' didn't get any 2023 Emmy nomatns, but almost everyone else the st did.
Contents:
- THE WHE LOT SEASON TWO: FANS LEFT UTTER SHOCK BY UNEXPECTED GAY SEX SCENE
- FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
- ‘THE WHE LOT’ SEASON FALE: ‘THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME!’
- MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
- THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE
- THUNR SIGN FORMER NUGGETS NTRIBUTOR AFTER RUDY GAY CISN
- 'THE GAYS' OF THE WHE LOT DIDN'T GET ANY EMMY NOMATNS, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE DID
THE WHE LOT SEASON TWO: FANS LEFT UTTER SHOCK BY UNEXPECTED GAY SEX SCENE
Edor's note: this post ntas spoilers for episo five of The Whe Lot season two.It's givg SayUncle...After a weeks-long tease, we fally got a gay sex scene on season two of The Whe Lot.
In a classic Whe Lot twist, though, a gay sex scene me om somewhere else entirely.Introduced episo three, wealthy gay man Quent (Tom Hollanr) is at the Whe Lot hotel Sicily wh a group of gay iends.
Though most of them are rich olr gays, there are a few younger men their pany, cludg Jack (Leo Woodall), a charmg and sexy guy om Essex who refers to Quent as his "uncle." Alas, the dynamic between Quent and Jack is never really highlighted episos three or four.
FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
Quent's personaly, accent, and tast f the archetypil "proper wealthy Brish gay man," whereas Jack looks and sounds like a future st member of Love Island. While this uld jt be a generatnal thg, uld also mean that they aren't at all om the same fay.Sendly, if a rich gay man like Quent were to hire a few younger guys to "enterta" him and his group of iends durg a trip to Sicily, stands to reason that someone like Jack would lie to Portia about Quent beg his uncle, not his "employer." There are other sex workers featured season two of The Whe Lot, and they don't go around sayg exactly what they're dog at the hotel, eher.The entire faial relatnship between Quent and Jack hg on the fact that Jack refers to Quent as his "uncle," but that uld very much jt be a nvenient label to attach to Quent so that Jack n still enjoy his time wh Portia as well. 'My jaw is on the floor': The Whe Lot viewers are left STUNNED by 'ctuo' gay sex scene between two 'fay members' VERY graphic cliffhanger endg of fifth episoWARNING: CONTAINS SEASON TWO SPOILERS In the fifth episo of season two, Jennifer Coolidge's character stumbl upon two other characters havg sexThe illic tryst has ed fans to fear that character has untentnally gotten herself ught up wh smmers The send season of the h HBO seri is set at a Whe Lot rort Sicily Published: 17:11 BST, 28 November 2022 | Updated: 18:19 BST, 28 November 2022.
‘THE WHE LOT’ SEASON FALE: ‘THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME!’
'Meanwhile, wrer Whe opened up about his cisn to clu such scen the drama seri as he explaed: 'There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga.
MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
'The Whe Lot' Gay Sex Scene Explaed by Mike Whe - Variety. Tanya and Portia were troduced to Quent, his “high-end gays” and his alleged nephew Jack episo four, and they all quickly h off. (Photo: Courty HBO/Warner Media)Warng: This story ntas the wake of the shockg, juicy Whe Lot fale on Sunday, social media has been flood wh great mem, mostly featurg the inic Jennifer social media has not been flood wh, however, is outcry about the show’s e of a variety of age-old gay trop — om the evil queen and the sad/psycho lbian to the “bury your gays” trope, aka the offg of gay characters, the end.
They’ve also mourned Tanya and have excedly looked forward to another season, hopefully wh more Portia outfs to lgh though such well-worn LGBTQ plot pots have riled crics the very recent past — cludg wh Killg Eve and Hoe of the Dragon, both lled out for the “bury your gays” trope — barely anyone seemed triggered by Whe Lot. Perhaps ’s bee they were prepped by Season 1’s fale, which saw Armond (Murray Bartlett), as the “praved gay, ” also killed off, promptg jt the slightt b of outcry on the Redd thread lled “a cliché trope that needs to die.
THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE
Over on Twter, “brown queer artist/activist” and filmmaker Leo Herrera ved his bed 35, 000-pl followers to “talk about the e of gay trop” on the seri recently, gettg not much tractn. ”Further, he says, “I don’t want to be the ‘angry brown guy’ … but somethg we need to be aware of is that some of the gay whe show-nners may believe we are past certa stereotyp or trop — which brgs up issu of race and privilege.
(Photo: Courty HBO/Warner Media)On Facebook, a few of this wrer’s acquatanc sound off, wh one llg Whe a “lazy wrer, ” addg, “’s gross to portray gay men as predators, addicts, transgrsive and dirty before killg them. It’s typil old textbook Hollywood to kill off the morally rpt gay characters, if you know your cema history … yet BOTH SEASONS of Whe Lot rely on the tired old trope.
THUNR SIGN FORMER NUGGETS NTRIBUTOR AFTER RUDY GAY CISN
”Over on a Whe Lot Redd thread, meanwhile, one viewer wonred, “What gay men f***ed wh Mike Whe for him to always make them tragic, vic, and stereotypil?
” That prompted a few to agree, cludg one who noted, “The thg is gay villas is actually a thg … We still want reprentatn so of urse ’s a double-edged sword and impossible to please the entire dience. First, some background on gay tropGLAAD lls gay trop “harmful and tired, ” and the recent exampl have helped refuel old anger about how LGBTQ characters are so often killed off TV dramas — a tradn actually stemmg om the 1934-1968 Motn Picture Productn Co, aka the Hays Co, a set of self-imposed dtry guil that banned (along wh nudy, ltful kissg and more) onscreen homosexual pictns.
'THE GAYS' OF THE WHE LOT DIDN'T GET ANY EMMY NOMATNS, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE DID
That prompted filmmakers to skirt the l by makg sure any even vaguely gay characters were tragic, lonely, doomed or topic was explored pth the 1996 documentary The Celluloid Closet, based on the landmark book by Vo Rso. “I said, you know, if you talk to 10 gay men and ask what they thk, three will love him, three will hate him and four will be jt like him, ” she rells. ”Now, 2022, “we live a culture where people look [at gay Whe Lot characters] and shg … People are not takg as an offense.
’”Further, Whe, who is bisexual and whose father is a gay activist, touched upon aga wh Terri Gross on NPR recently, tellg her, “this whole season of the show is … gog to a certa, like, nstellatn of trop and try to, like, play wh those trop a way that hopefully feels h. On that Redd thread, not one menter, “I’m pretty sure mike whe is bisexual, and his father is gay. The ‘evil gays, ’ as they’ve been lled, I’ve never really seen that explored.