Contents:
- SPOILER ALERT REVIEW – BLAND GAY WEEPIE LEAV DRY EY THE HOE
- ‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM
- GAY ROM-COMS WON 2022, EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T MAKE MONEY
SPOILER ALERT REVIEW – BLAND GAY WEEPIE LEAV DRY EY THE HOE
When Billy Eichner’s poorly marketed yet richly textured gay rom Bros was released earlier this year, the crique om many queer viewers was that wasn’t queer enough.
‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM
This month, Spoiler Alert, another broadly accsible story about two men fallg love New York Cy hs and Febary, a gay uple lead M Night Shyamalan’s apolyptic thriller Knock at the Cab, both reassurg signs that the dtry remas at least half-heartedly terted allowg queer characters space the Bros, Spoiler Alert is based on the love life of a nervy, romantilly experienced New York wrer but ’s ls boy-meets-boy and more boy-meets-then-los-boy. One night, when forced out to a gay bar by a lleague, he meets K (Fleabag’s Ben Aldridge), a handsome and nfint signer and the two start datg. But then K fds out he has a form of ncer and the two are forced to reckon wh the prospect of losg each another year of back-pattg, don’t-blk-and-you’ll-probably-still-miss- blockbter fx-reprentatn, om Glass Onn to Jurassic World: Domn to Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns, there is somethg gratifyg seeg two out gay actors playg arguably gay characters dog visibly gay thgs a big movie whout any pearl-clutchg yns.
GAY ROM-COMS WON 2022, EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T MAKE MONEY
But praisg Spoiler Alert for what ’s tryg to do rather than what ’s actually dog would be disgenuo, the film likely to lose gay dienc faster than straight a film based on the reali of an actual uple, there’s an overwhelmg lack of lived- specificy to the characters, their relatnship and their sexualy, as if ’s all been ncted by someone whose knowledge of gayns om watchg Queer Eye.
Such ditn is profoundly touchg, pecially to LGBTQ dienc for whom — if “Bros” is to be believed — gay romantic edi didn’t exist until two months ago (spoiler alert: they’ve been around for s).