'The gays' of 'The Whe Lot' didn't get any 2023 Emmy nomatns, but almost everyone else the st did.
Contents:
- MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
- FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
- WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
- 'THE GAYS' OF THE WHE LOT DIDN'T GET ANY EMMY NOMATNS, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE DID
- ‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
Qun is not gay and abandons his fay and stays back on the island to noe wh his crew to learn and explore Hōkūleʻa. * gay guys in white lotus *
Both feature a character walkg on gay sex behd closed doors, and both occur two episos before the fale.
“There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga, ” Whe said.
FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
Edor's note: this post ntas spoilers for episo five of The Whe Lot season 's givg a weeks-long tease, we fally got a gay sex scene on season two of The Whe Lot.
WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
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.
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. 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.
"The gays, they're tryg to murr me.
'THE GAYS' OF THE WHE LOT DIDN'T GET ANY EMMY NOMATNS, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE DID
Though we n acknowledge - and appreciate - the urse rrectn of not always featurg queer characters who will only lie, cheat, murr, and steal, is equally jarrg to watch so many movi and TV shows now beg clive of queer people who are only portrayed as perfect ltle angels, heart-wrenchg tragic figur, or Mary Sue The Whe Lot season two's Quent (Tom Hollanr) and his gaggle of rich, olr European gays.
They prent as the stereotypil gay bt iends (GBFs) to Tanya that are there to save her vatn, spill some hot tea, and help her turn the beat around. The gays weren't rich eher - they had nothg but an old and yg villa to e as a fa for, The Whe Lot isn't the only mastream TV show wh villao gays, but do feel like the seri ma a pot to highlight what dienc have e to expect om the characters only to then reveal much darker sis to them over the urse of the season. Not realizg that the gays were first-class smmers wh plans of their own, not jt do need Fire Island, Bros, Heartstopper, and LGBTQ-led holiday movi om Hallmark as reprentatn.
‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
The endgame of The Whe Lot is a perfect example of how characters n be villao and gay - not villas bee they're gay, but villas who also happen to be Tanya asked, "Do you know the gays?
She didn't know those gays, after all, and neher did the dience.