If Pl Woodgh Is Gay, 'Te Detective' Season 2 Needs To Integrate His Sexualy Organilly, Not As A Twist

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• CAN TAYLOR KSCH'S CHARACTER 'TE DETECTIVE' PLEASE NOT BE A SELF-HATG GAY STEREOTYPE?
• TE DETECTIVE DIRECTOR DEBUNKS A POPULAR NEW SEASON 3 THEORYDANIEL SACKHEIM CLEARS UP A FEW THGS.BY JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 17, 2019BY WARRICK PAGE / HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS WE HEAD TO THE HOMTRETCH OF TE DETECTIVE SEASON 3, DIRECTOR DANIEL SACKHEIM JOS VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST TO REFLECT ON THE SEASON’S MANY TWISTS AND TURNS. A VETERAN OF MASSIVE H SHOWS LIKE THE X-FIL, THE WALKG DEAD, AND GAME OF THRON, SACKHEIM TOOK OVER SOME DIRECTG DUTI AFTER JEREMY SLNIER—WHO WAS ORIGALLY SUPPOSED TO HELM THE WHOLE SEASON—LEFT THE PROJECT. ALL TOLD, SACKHEIM DIRECTED FOUR OUT OF THE EIGHT EPISOS, CLUDG THIS WEEK’S EPISO, “THE FAL COUNTRY,” AND NEXT WEEK’S FALE, “NOW AM FOUND.” THE ENTIRETY OF SACKHEIM’S TERVIEW WILL BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AFTER EPISO 7 AIRS, BUT ADVANCE OF TONIGHT’S STALLMENT, THE DIRECTOR IS HERE TO CLEAR UP A H BUT ACCURATE THEORY. IN EPISO 6, TE DETECTIVE REVEALED THAT SOT MCNAIRY’S CHARACTER, TOM PURCELL, WAS A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL WHO LEANED HARD ON THE CHURCH ORR TO TRY TO STIFLE SIR THAT WOULD HAVE MA LIFE RAL 1980S AND 90S ARKANSAS DIFFICULT. WHAT DO THIS NEW RMATN MEAN ABOUT TOM’S CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH STEPHEN DORFF’S DETECTIVE ROLAND WT? NOT WHAT SOME MAY THK.FANS EAGER TO FD CLU ANY GIVEN RNER OF THE MYSTER HBO SERI WONRED IF ROLAND’S ABILY TO SETTLE DOWN WH POULTRY SCIENTIST LORI (JODI BALFOUR) MEANT THAT HIS STRONG ATTACHMENT TO TOM WAS MORE THAN PLATONIC. THE FACT THAT HIS PARTNER, WAYNE HAYS (MAHERSHALA ALI), IS VOLLY NSERVATIVE, AS WELL AS ROLAND’S FENSIVENS AROUND WILL AND JULIE’S DAD, LED SOME TO NCLU THAT ROLAND WAS HIDG A KEY ASPECT OF HIMSELF OM HIS IEND/FELLOW TECTIVE. “ROLAND WAS NEVER ABLE TO SUCCSFULLY HAVE A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN,” SACKHEIM NCES. “THAT, SENCE, IS THE ROLE THAT TOM FULFILLS. I THK THAT’S HIS LOVE AFFAIR.” BUT SACKHEIM FURTHER EXPLAS THAT THIS DON’T MEAN THE TWO ARE ROMANTILLY LKED.“I FEEL PRETTY FORTABLE SAYG THAT NJECTURE THAT’S OUT THERE DON’T HOLD ANY WATER,” SACKHEIM SAYS. “THEY HAVE A CLOSE RELATNSHIP AND THAT NTU TO PLAY OUT FOR THE RT OF THE SEASON. NOT ANY WAY IS A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP.” SERI CREATOR NIC PIZZOLATTO RROBORATED SACKHEIM’S MENTS AN INSTAGRAM POST OVER THE WEEKEND, RPONDG WH A SIMPLE “NO” TO A MENT READG: “ROLAND’S GAY !!!” IN THE SAME POST, PIZZOLATTO ALSO CLEARED UP ANY QUTNS AROUND THE SEXUALY OF HARRIS JAM (STT SHEPHERD), WHO LEERGLY PLIMENTED WAYNE ON HIS BODY EPISO 6: “HARRIS IS NOT GAY. HE WAS MSG WH WAYNE (EFFECTIVELY) BEE WAYNE WAS MSG WH HIM.”AS STILL WATCHG -HOST RICHARD LAWSON POTED OUT ON THE PODST LAST WEEK, SEXUALY AS “PLOT TWIST” IS NOT EXACTLY A GOOD LOOK FOR A TV SERI 2019, SO WE’RE RELIEVED TO REPORT THAT TE DETECTIVE ISN’T PEPPERED WH SECRET GAY CHARACTERS. BUT SACKHEIM POTS OUT THAT TOM AND ROLAND’S NNECTN IS STILL CREDIBLY IMPORTANT. “THAT NNECTN TO TOM IS A PORT BY WHICH WE VIEW ROLAND’S HUMANY,” HE EXPLAS. “IT’S NOT SOMETHG WE GET A CHANCE TO SEE A LOT. [ROLAND’S] A CYNIL GUY BY NATURE. AS THE STORY PROGRS, HE BE MORE AND MORE CYNIL.”WE’LL SEE ROLAND’S CYNICISM POTENTIALLY REACH A BOILG POT THE FAL TWO EPISOS OF TE DETECTIVE. TUNE TO STILL WATCHG: TE DETECTIVE” AFTER EPISO 7 FOR MORE DISCSN OF THE EPISO AND SIGHTS OM SACKHEIM ON WHAT TO EXPECT OM THE FALE.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSH25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONJOANNA ROBSON
• 'TE DETECTIVE' REP: GAY CLUBS, GOLD GRILLZ AND E-CIGARETT
• MARLOW STERNUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 4:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 06, 2015 12:09AM EDT HBOTAYLOR KSCH. FOR WOMEN—AND MEN—OF A CERTA AGE, THE NAME NJUR UP AN IMAGE OF A BROODG FOOTBALL STUD, HIS LONG, GREASY LOCKS OBSCURG GOALPOST-HIGH CHEEKBON AND PERATG EY. Y, KSCH’S TIM RIGGS ON FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS REMAS ONE OF THE MOST SWOON-WORTHY TV CHARACTERS RECENT MEMORY. AND, FOLLOWG A FILM REER FILLED WH HS (LONE SURVIVOR) AND MISS (JOHN CARTER), THE CANADIAN EX-MOL, WHO ONCE GAVE A WHOLE NEW MEANG TO DERELICTE WHEN HE SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS HOMELS NEW YORK, HAS RETURNED TO THE SMALL SCREEN AS ONE OF THE TORTURED PS ON NIC PIZZOLATTO’S TE DETECTIVE.AND KSCH’S HIGHWAY PATROLMAN PL WOODGH MIGHT BE THE MOST TORTURED CHARACTER THE HBO POTBOILER’S SEND SEASON (WHICH IS REALLY SAYG SOMETHG). HALF HIS BODY IS SRRED OM HIS EXPERIENCE OVERSEAS A BLACKWATER-LIKE OPERATN LLED BLACK MOUNTA; HE NEEDS TO POP VIAGRA TO HAVE SEX WH HIS RANDY GIRLIEND; AND HIS TRAILER-TRASH MOTHER IS TOUCHY-FEELY A CREEPY WAY.LAST EPISO, WOODGH BROKE UP WH HIS GIRLIEND A F OF RAGE—“THIS IS ON YOU,” HE CLAIMED—BEFORE HEADG TO HIS BACHELOR PAD DOWNTOWN L.A., WHERE HE GAZED LONGGLY AT A GAY PROSTUTE OM HIS BALNY. IN EPISO 3, ’S REVEALED THAT ALL THIS ODD SEXUAL BEHAVR IS A ONT FOR WOODGH’S BEG EP THE CLOSET, AS HE’S NONTED BY AN EX-ARY PAL AND FORMER LOVER.“I THK ABOUT YOU, MAN…WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO FET, HUH?” THE EX-LOVER SAYS. WOODGH TELLS HIM TO CHILL OUT, THEN SNAPS, THROWG HIM ON THE GROUND, AND YELLG, “FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!” WHEN THE MAN TRI TO TELL THE REPRSED P ABOUT HIS FEELGS. WOODGH IS LATER LED THROUGH THE PROSTUTE UNRWORLD BY A GAY HTLER WHO—LIKE WOODGH—POPPED VIAGRA TO HAVE SEX WH WOMEN, ONLY HIS SEXY TIM WERE FOR THE ENTERTAMENT OF THE MURRED CY MANAGER OF VCI, BEN CASPER. THE DAILY BEAST SPOKE TO KSCH ABOUT WOODGH’S REVEAL, WHY HE LASH OUT, AND MUCH MORE.DID YOU SEE PARALLELS BETWEEN WOODGH AND YOUR CHARACTER BCE NIL THE NORMAL HEART, ANOTHER GAY MAN WHO HAD TO HI WHO HE WAS BY DAY?TOTALLY, MAN. THERE’S A THROUGH LE THAT SENSE OF NOT BEG ABLE TO BE THE GUY THAT HE IS, WHAT THAT MEANS TO HIM, AND HOW EP THAT NS. IT GO BACK TO THE SPERATN, AND HOW TRAGIC THAT IS. WHEN WE REALLY SEE HOW SPERATE THIS GUY IS, ’S HEARTBREAKG. IT’S SO SAD. GOD KNOWS HOW MUCH FUCKG ENERGY TAK TO HI BEHD ALL THAT. THIS SE IS REALLY A BACKDROP FOR EXPOSG WHO THE GUYS REALLY ARE. WHAT’S SO ENTHRALLG IS THE WDG UP AND WDG DOWN OF WHO THE GUYS REALLY ARE, AND EXPOSG THAT.WHY DO YOU THK PL LASH OUT SO VLENTLY AGAST HIS EX-ARY BUDDY/LOVER?I THK WHEN YOU’RE LIVG WH SOMETHG SO LONG, AND NS THAT EP WHERE FEELS THAT’S WHAT’S WH HIMSELF, THEN REALLY WOULD BE THE END OF HIM. THERE IS NO REAL ANSWER TO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF [’S REVEALED], AND I THK THAT SHAME IS SO STRONG WH HIMSELF THAT IF HE DO ANSWER TO , THEN ’S, “OK, NOW WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK AM I GOG TO DO NOW?” I WILL SAY THAT SOME OF MY BT WORK MY REER IS EPISOS 4 AND 5—THE REPERCSNS OF HIM ANSWERG TO THAT LL WH HIMSELF. YOU’LL SEE THE HEARTBREAK AND THE WEIGHT THAT HE RRI, AND WHAT HAPPENS IF HE DO ANSWER TO THAT.THERE ARE PARALLELS BETWEEN WOODGH AND THE GAY PROSTUTE HE SPEAKS WH AT THE CLUB, SCE THEY BOTH NEED TO POP VIAGRA TO HAVE SEX WH WOMEN. AND JT PRR TO THAT, WE SEE WOODGH LOCK EY WH VCE VGHN’S CHARACTER THE CLUB AND GIVE A KNOWG LOOK. DO THE SIGNS POT TO WOODGH BEG AN EX-HTLER?NO, I THK ’S STORYTELLG EXPOSG HIS NEEDS AND WANTS A CERTA WAY. EVEN PUTTG HIM SUATNS—ALBE “WORKG” ON—BUT HE’S BEG EXPOSED THROUGH THE BEATS. THERE’S SOMETHG THAT HE’S VTIGATG—NO PUN TEND—WH HIMSELF. IT’S THAT “WHAT IF?” AND ’S RIGHT ONT OF HIM. I THK PL SE THIS HTLER AND HE THKS, “WELL, IF I BRG THIS GUY WH ME THEN I’M GOG ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE PATH,” AND THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS. BUT PL DO E TO A PLACE THE ROAD WHERE HE DO REACT TO THAT LONGG FOR , AND THE BETY OF THAT AS AN ACTOR IS THE REPERCSN OF THAT CISN. WERE YOU AT ALL APPREHENSIVE ABOUT PLAYG THIS CHARACTER? IT’S A POTENTIALLY PROBLEMATIC ROLE IF NOT HANDLED RRECTLY—A CLOSETED GAY MAN WHO LASH OUT VLENTLY AGAST THOSE WHO SEEK TO EXPOSE HIS SECRET.I DON’T KNOW IF I EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WAY. OBVLY YOU’RE SRED ABOUT GOG TO THE EPT PARTS OF THE GUYS, BUT I GET MORE OF A HIGH OM THAT—OF TRYG TO SEE IF I N PULL OFF AND SEE HOW EP I N GO. I THK THAT’S SUCH A TRIBUTE TO THE WRG, HOW EP PL IS. EVERY ACTOR IS ALWAYS LOOKG FOR THE GUYS TO PLAY. I DON’T KNOW. I FUCKG LOVED PLAYG THIS GUY. IT SORT OF FUCKED ME UP TO E OUT OF , BUT ’S SO FULFILLG, AS WELL, WHEN YOU FEEL YOU’RE DOG YOUR BT WORK.HOW LONG DID FUCK YOU UP? JT A FEW WEEKS. I’M NSC OF WHEN I AM , BUT WHAT’S TOUGH IS YOU’RE LIVG THIS BUBBLE AND THIS EP, PRSG STATE. THIS GUY’S BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH, AND SOME NIGHTS YOU N’T HELP BUT TAKE HOME WH YOU. I’VE GOTTA ASK: IN EPISO 3, IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE CARY FUNAGA—THE DIRECTOR WH THE PONYTAIL ON THE FILM SET?OH, NO WAY, I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY OF THAT YET!THE FIRST TIME A LOT OF PEOPLE SAW YOU—WH, PERHAPS, THE EXCEPTN OF YOUR AWOME SNAKE FATALY SNAK ON A PLANE—WAS ON FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. THERE IS STILL THIS MAJOR CULT OF FNL WORSHIP.I MEAN, I’M WALKG AROUND THE STREETS OF NEW YORK AND A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ME UP TO ME TODAY. PEOPLE WILL SAY HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THE SHOW, AND HOW THEY LIKE RIGGS, AND KYLE CHANDLER, AND ALL THAT. IT FEELS LIKE FOREVER AGO, PERSONALLY, BUT ’S ALWAYS FLATTERG NOHELS.JOHN CACK ONCE SAID THAT WHEN PEOPLE DATE HIM, THEY EXPECT LLOYD DOBLER, DO YOU EVER N TO PROBLEMS WHERE WHEN PEOPLE DATE YOU, THEY EXPECT BROODG RIGGS AND GET SG KSCH?I THK WHEN YOU’RE A BAR OR SOMETHG—WHEN I’M AT A BAR AT, GUYS WILL E UP. THE BETY OF RIGGS, TOO, IS ’S GUYS AND GIRLS, SO ’S THE ULTIMATE FLATTERY. THERE WAS A GUY AT THE GYM L.A. AND MY HAIR IS REALLY SHORT NOW. HE HAD THIS LONG HAIR AND HE SAID, “DU, I FUCKG GREW MY HAIR FOR YOU.” AND I WAS LIKE, “UHHHH…WHAT?” AND HE SAID, “OH…UH…I MEAN I GREW BEE RIGGS HAD LONG HAIR, AND HE WAS GETTG LAID ALL THE TIME.” AND I WAS LIKE, “HOW’S THAT GOG FOR YA?” AND HE SAID, “YOU KNOW, I THK FUCK’ WORKS!” I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY. HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN NFED WH TOM BRADY? YOU GUYS KD OF LOOK ALIKE WH THE SHORT HAIR.MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE! BUT NOT A LOT.THEY RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THE NEW GAMB FILM WH CHANNG TATUM PLAYG THE CAJUN SUPERHERO. YOU, OF URSE, ORIGATED THE CHARACTER X-MEN ORIGS: WOLVERE. DID YOU GET A CRACK AT THE PART BEFORE THEY ST CHANNG?UM…NO, I DIDN’T HAVE A GO. EVER SCE WE FISHED THE MOVIE, ’S NEVER REALLY BEEN AN OPTN. BUT NO, I WISH [CHANNG] NOTHG BUT THE BT. IT WAS A FUN CHARACTER TO PLAY, AND I LEARNED A LOT WORKG WH HUGH [JACKMAN] AND HAD AN AMAZG TIME ATRALIA. I’M SURE THEY’RE DOG THEIR OWN THG WH , AND I’M SURE CHANNG WILL BE GREAT.WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE G UP AFTER TE DETECTIVE?WE’RE JT KD OF TAKG A BEAT. I WAED A FULL YEAR FOR TE DETECTIVE TO BE GREEN-L, AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM WAG FOR THAT NEXT ONE. WE LOVE THE TRACK THAT WE’RE ON, AND ’S ALL ABOUT WAG OUT FOR THAT NEXT GIG THAT YOU JT HAVE TO DO. IT’S BEEN FLATTERG WH A LOT OF GOOD MATERIAL G OUR WAY. DID YOU BEE MORE PATIENT WH YOUR CHOIC OF ROL AFTER JOHN CARTER AND BATTLHIP?A LOT OF THOSE WERE NO-BRAERS TO ME, TOO—ALL THE FIGHTS THAT ME AND [ANDREW] STANTON HAD TO TRY AND GET JOHN CARTER MA. AND PETE BERG, TOO. I WAS TALKG TO PETE LERALLY A UPLE OF HOURS AGO AND WE’RE LOOKG TO DO SOMETHG TOGETHER SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. WE HAD SUCH AN AMAZG TIME ON BATTLHIP AND LONE SURVIVOR, AND THE SHORTHAND ME AND PETE HAVE AND THE RELATNSHIP WE HAVE OFF-MERA IS REALLY GOOD. IT WAS A STRG OF REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNI THAT WERE NO-BRAERS. AND SAVAG, TOO. I WOULD DO ALL OF THOSE ALL OVER AGA. IN THE SENSE OF PATIENCE, THE GAME IS A LOT DIFFERENT NOW THAN WAS EVEN FOUR YEARS AGO. A LOT OF THE GOOD MATERIAL IS GOG TO BLE SHOWS, AND THE LAST TWO YEARS I’VE BEEN WORKG WH HBO. IT’S ABOUT TRYG TO FD THAT GOOD MATERIAL, AND A LOT OF TIM ’S NOT BEG MA TO FILMS. THE GAME HAS FELY CHANGED. MARLOW STERN

CAN TAYLOR KSCH'S CHARACTER 'TE DETECTIVE' PLEASE NOT BE A SELF-HATG GAY STEREOTYPE?

Of the four ma characters, season two has spent the least time wh Taylor Ksch's Pl, who is mostly playg out a very typil story of a eply reprsed gay man who's tryg to fight back his own impuls.

He appeared to have a problem wh impotence the premiere, but the next two episos have ma all the more clear that he's gay and ref to adm this to himself or others, even though he's slept wh men before. Pl n be an ace highway patrol officer and a terrific ary man and still be gay; his sexual orientatn don't negate eher of the former optns.

I have to adm, I was trigued when I heard that there was a gay subplot  Te Detective’s send season.

TE DETECTIVE DIRECTOR DEBUNKS A POPULAR NEW SEASON 3 THEORYDANIEL SACKHEIM CLEARS UP A FEW THGS.BY JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 17, 2019BY WARRICK PAGE / HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS WE HEAD TO THE HOMTRETCH OF TE DETECTIVE SEASON 3, DIRECTOR DANIEL SACKHEIM JOS VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST TO REFLECT ON THE SEASON’S MANY TWISTS AND TURNS. A VETERAN OF MASSIVE H SHOWS LIKE THE X-FIL, THE WALKG DEAD, AND GAME OF THRON, SACKHEIM TOOK OVER SOME DIRECTG DUTI AFTER JEREMY SLNIER—WHO WAS ORIGALLY SUPPOSED TO HELM THE WHOLE SEASON—LEFT THE PROJECT. ALL TOLD, SACKHEIM DIRECTED FOUR OUT OF THE EIGHT EPISOS, CLUDG THIS WEEK’S EPISO, “THE FAL COUNTRY,” AND NEXT WEEK’S FALE, “NOW AM FOUND.” THE ENTIRETY OF SACKHEIM’S TERVIEW WILL BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AFTER EPISO 7 AIRS, BUT ADVANCE OF TONIGHT’S STALLMENT, THE DIRECTOR IS HERE TO CLEAR UP A H BUT ACCURATE THEORY. IN EPISO 6, TE DETECTIVE REVEALED THAT SOT MCNAIRY’S CHARACTER, TOM PURCELL, WAS A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL WHO LEANED HARD ON THE CHURCH ORR TO TRY TO STIFLE SIR THAT WOULD HAVE MA LIFE RAL 1980S AND 90S ARKANSAS DIFFICULT. WHAT DO THIS NEW RMATN MEAN ABOUT TOM’S CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH STEPHEN DORFF’S DETECTIVE ROLAND WT? NOT WHAT SOME MAY THK.FANS EAGER TO FD CLU ANY GIVEN RNER OF THE MYSTER HBO SERI WONRED IF ROLAND’S ABILY TO SETTLE DOWN WH POULTRY SCIENTIST LORI (JODI BALFOUR) MEANT THAT HIS STRONG ATTACHMENT TO TOM WAS MORE THAN PLATONIC. THE FACT THAT HIS PARTNER, WAYNE HAYS (MAHERSHALA ALI), IS VOLLY NSERVATIVE, AS WELL AS ROLAND’S FENSIVENS AROUND WILL AND JULIE’S DAD, LED SOME TO NCLU THAT ROLAND WAS HIDG A KEY ASPECT OF HIMSELF OM HIS IEND/FELLOW TECTIVE. “ROLAND WAS NEVER ABLE TO SUCCSFULLY HAVE A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN,” SACKHEIM NCES. “THAT, SENCE, IS THE ROLE THAT TOM FULFILLS. I THK THAT’S HIS LOVE AFFAIR.” BUT SACKHEIM FURTHER EXPLAS THAT THIS DON’T MEAN THE TWO ARE ROMANTILLY LKED.“I FEEL PRETTY FORTABLE SAYG THAT NJECTURE THAT’S OUT THERE DON’T HOLD ANY WATER,” SACKHEIM SAYS. “THEY HAVE A CLOSE RELATNSHIP AND THAT NTU TO PLAY OUT FOR THE RT OF THE SEASON. NOT ANY WAY IS A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP.” SERI CREATOR NIC PIZZOLATTO RROBORATED SACKHEIM’S MENTS AN INSTAGRAM POST OVER THE WEEKEND, RPONDG WH A SIMPLE “NO” TO A MENT READG: “ROLAND’S GAY !!!” IN THE SAME POST, PIZZOLATTO ALSO CLEARED UP ANY QUTNS AROUND THE SEXUALY OF HARRIS JAM (STT SHEPHERD), WHO LEERGLY PLIMENTED WAYNE ON HIS BODY EPISO 6: “HARRIS IS NOT GAY. HE WAS MSG WH WAYNE (EFFECTIVELY) BEE WAYNE WAS MSG WH HIM.”AS STILL WATCHG -HOST RICHARD LAWSON POTED OUT ON THE PODST LAST WEEK, SEXUALY AS “PLOT TWIST” IS NOT EXACTLY A GOOD LOOK FOR A TV SERI 2019, SO WE’RE RELIEVED TO REPORT THAT TE DETECTIVE ISN’T PEPPERED WH SECRET GAY CHARACTERS. BUT SACKHEIM POTS OUT THAT TOM AND ROLAND’S NNECTN IS STILL CREDIBLY IMPORTANT. “THAT NNECTN TO TOM IS A PORT BY WHICH WE VIEW ROLAND’S HUMANY,” HE EXPLAS. “IT’S NOT SOMETHG WE GET A CHANCE TO SEE A LOT. [ROLAND’S] A CYNIL GUY BY NATURE. AS THE STORY PROGRS, HE BE MORE AND MORE CYNIL.”WE’LL SEE ROLAND’S CYNICISM POTENTIALLY REACH A BOILG POT THE FAL TWO EPISOS OF TE DETECTIVE. TUNE TO STILL WATCHG: TE DETECTIVE” AFTER EPISO 7 FOR MORE DISCSN OF THE EPISO AND SIGHTS OM SACKHEIM ON WHAT TO EXPECT OM THE FALE.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSH25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONJOANNA ROBSON

Do I fd a tad ironic that we end this year-long LGBT project wh a closet storyle that ends the vlent ath of a gay character?

Even jt this one episo ’s hard to fathom what is that fueled Woodgh’s self-hatred—are we really prentg a closeted gay character as someone self-evintly ashamed of his sexualy 2016?

'TE DETECTIVE' REP: GAY CLUBS, GOLD GRILLZ AND E-CIGARETT

Thankfully, Pl Woodgh enters a media landspe where he need not be a shg bean of acceptance and tolerance—the burn of reprentatn (which I touched on a lot this past year, and which was the drivg ia behd this lumn after seeg howLookg was received) is perhaps a b lighter than might have been a ago when our screens were riddled wh gay characters whose sole purpose was to overe their own self-hatred and prejudice—at least Pl gets a great heroic actn sequence and a whole lot of character velopment that was rmed but not rced to his sexualy.

MARLOW STERNUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 4:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 06, 2015 12:09AM EDT HBOTAYLOR KSCH. FOR WOMEN—AND MEN—OF A CERTA AGE, THE NAME NJUR UP AN IMAGE OF A BROODG FOOTBALL STUD, HIS LONG, GREASY LOCKS OBSCURG GOALPOST-HIGH CHEEKBON AND PERATG EY. Y, KSCH’S TIM RIGGS ON FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS REMAS ONE OF THE MOST SWOON-WORTHY TV CHARACTERS RECENT MEMORY. AND, FOLLOWG A FILM REER FILLED WH HS (LONE SURVIVOR) AND MISS (JOHN CARTER), THE CANADIAN EX-MOL, WHO ONCE GAVE A WHOLE NEW MEANG TO DERELICTE WHEN HE SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS HOMELS NEW YORK, HAS RETURNED TO THE SMALL SCREEN AS ONE OF THE TORTURED PS ON NIC PIZZOLATTO’S TE DETECTIVE.AND KSCH’S HIGHWAY PATROLMAN PL WOODGH MIGHT BE THE MOST TORTURED CHARACTER THE HBO POTBOILER’S SEND SEASON (WHICH IS REALLY SAYG SOMETHG). HALF HIS BODY IS SRRED OM HIS EXPERIENCE OVERSEAS A BLACKWATER-LIKE OPERATN LLED BLACK MOUNTA; HE NEEDS TO POP VIAGRA TO HAVE SEX WH HIS RANDY GIRLIEND; AND HIS TRAILER-TRASH MOTHER IS TOUCHY-FEELY A CREEPY WAY.LAST EPISO, WOODGH BROKE UP WH HIS GIRLIEND A F OF RAGE—“THIS IS ON YOU,” HE CLAIMED—BEFORE HEADG TO HIS BACHELOR PAD DOWNTOWN L.A., WHERE HE GAZED LONGGLY AT A GAY PROSTUTE OM HIS BALNY. IN EPISO 3, ’S REVEALED THAT ALL THIS ODD SEXUAL BEHAVR IS A ONT FOR WOODGH’S BEG EP THE CLOSET, AS HE’S NONTED BY AN EX-ARY PAL AND FORMER LOVER.“I THK ABOUT YOU, MAN…WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO FET, HUH?” THE EX-LOVER SAYS. WOODGH TELLS HIM TO CHILL OUT, THEN SNAPS, THROWG HIM ON THE GROUND, AND YELLG, “FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!” WHEN THE MAN TRI TO TELL THE REPRSED P ABOUT HIS FEELGS. WOODGH IS LATER LED THROUGH THE PROSTUTE UNRWORLD BY A GAY HTLER WHO—LIKE WOODGH—POPPED VIAGRA TO HAVE SEX WH WOMEN, ONLY HIS SEXY TIM WERE FOR THE ENTERTAMENT OF THE MURRED CY MANAGER OF VCI, BEN CASPER. THE DAILY BEAST SPOKE TO KSCH ABOUT WOODGH’S REVEAL, WHY HE LASH OUT, AND MUCH MORE.DID YOU SEE PARALLELS BETWEEN WOODGH AND YOUR CHARACTER BCE NIL THE NORMAL HEART, ANOTHER GAY MAN WHO HAD TO HI WHO HE WAS BY DAY?TOTALLY, MAN. THERE’S A THROUGH LE THAT SENSE OF NOT BEG ABLE TO BE THE GUY THAT HE IS, WHAT THAT MEANS TO HIM, AND HOW EP THAT NS. IT GO BACK TO THE SPERATN, AND HOW TRAGIC THAT IS. WHEN WE REALLY SEE HOW SPERATE THIS GUY IS, ’S HEARTBREAKG. IT’S SO SAD. GOD KNOWS HOW MUCH FUCKG ENERGY TAK TO HI BEHD ALL THAT. THIS SE IS REALLY A BACKDROP FOR EXPOSG WHO THE GUYS REALLY ARE. WHAT’S SO ENTHRALLG IS THE WDG UP AND WDG DOWN OF WHO THE GUYS REALLY ARE, AND EXPOSG THAT.WHY DO YOU THK PL LASH OUT SO VLENTLY AGAST HIS EX-ARY BUDDY/LOVER?I THK WHEN YOU’RE LIVG WH SOMETHG SO LONG, AND NS THAT EP WHERE FEELS THAT’S WHAT’S WH HIMSELF, THEN REALLY WOULD BE THE END OF HIM. THERE IS NO REAL ANSWER TO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF [’S REVEALED], AND I THK THAT SHAME IS SO STRONG WH HIMSELF THAT IF HE DO ANSWER TO , THEN ’S, “OK, NOW WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK AM I GOG TO DO NOW?” I WILL SAY THAT SOME OF MY BT WORK MY REER IS EPISOS 4 AND 5—THE REPERCSNS OF HIM ANSWERG TO THAT LL WH HIMSELF. YOU’LL SEE THE HEARTBREAK AND THE WEIGHT THAT HE RRI, AND WHAT HAPPENS IF HE DO ANSWER TO THAT.THERE ARE PARALLELS BETWEEN WOODGH AND THE GAY PROSTUTE HE SPEAKS WH AT THE CLUB, SCE THEY BOTH NEED TO POP VIAGRA TO HAVE SEX WH WOMEN. AND JT PRR TO THAT, WE SEE WOODGH LOCK EY WH VCE VGHN’S CHARACTER THE CLUB AND GIVE A KNOWG LOOK. DO THE SIGNS POT TO WOODGH BEG AN EX-HTLER?NO, I THK ’S STORYTELLG EXPOSG HIS NEEDS AND WANTS A CERTA WAY. EVEN PUTTG HIM SUATNS—ALBE “WORKG” ON—BUT HE’S BEG EXPOSED THROUGH THE BEATS. THERE’S SOMETHG THAT HE’S VTIGATG—NO PUN TEND—WH HIMSELF. IT’S THAT “WHAT IF?” AND ’S RIGHT ONT OF HIM. I THK PL SE THIS HTLER AND HE THKS, “WELL, IF I BRG THIS GUY WH ME THEN I’M GOG ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE PATH,” AND THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS. BUT PL DO E TO A PLACE THE ROAD WHERE HE DO REACT TO THAT LONGG FOR , AND THE BETY OF THAT AS AN ACTOR IS THE REPERCSN OF THAT CISN. WERE YOU AT ALL APPREHENSIVE ABOUT PLAYG THIS CHARACTER? IT’S A POTENTIALLY PROBLEMATIC ROLE IF NOT HANDLED RRECTLY—A CLOSETED GAY MAN WHO LASH OUT VLENTLY AGAST THOSE WHO SEEK TO EXPOSE HIS SECRET.I DON’T KNOW IF I EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WAY. OBVLY YOU’RE SRED ABOUT GOG TO THE EPT PARTS OF THE GUYS, BUT I GET MORE OF A HIGH OM THAT—OF TRYG TO SEE IF I N PULL OFF AND SEE HOW EP I N GO. I THK THAT’S SUCH A TRIBUTE TO THE WRG, HOW EP PL IS. EVERY ACTOR IS ALWAYS LOOKG FOR THE GUYS TO PLAY. I DON’T KNOW. I FUCKG LOVED PLAYG THIS GUY. IT SORT OF FUCKED ME UP TO E OUT OF , BUT ’S SO FULFILLG, AS WELL, WHEN YOU FEEL YOU’RE DOG YOUR BT WORK.HOW LONG DID FUCK YOU UP? JT A FEW WEEKS. I’M NSC OF WHEN I AM , BUT WHAT’S TOUGH IS YOU’RE LIVG THIS BUBBLE AND THIS EP, PRSG STATE. THIS GUY’S BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH, AND SOME NIGHTS YOU N’T HELP BUT TAKE HOME WH YOU. I’VE GOTTA ASK: IN EPISO 3, IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE CARY FUNAGA—THE DIRECTOR WH THE PONYTAIL ON THE FILM SET?OH, NO WAY, I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY OF THAT YET!THE FIRST TIME A LOT OF PEOPLE SAW YOU—WH, PERHAPS, THE EXCEPTN OF YOUR AWOME SNAKE FATALY SNAK ON A PLANE—WAS ON FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. THERE IS STILL THIS MAJOR CULT OF FNL WORSHIP.I MEAN, I’M WALKG AROUND THE STREETS OF NEW YORK AND A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ME UP TO ME TODAY. PEOPLE WILL SAY HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THE SHOW, AND HOW THEY LIKE RIGGS, AND KYLE CHANDLER, AND ALL THAT. IT FEELS LIKE FOREVER AGO, PERSONALLY, BUT ’S ALWAYS FLATTERG NOHELS.JOHN CACK ONCE SAID THAT WHEN PEOPLE DATE HIM, THEY EXPECT LLOYD DOBLER, DO YOU EVER N TO PROBLEMS WHERE WHEN PEOPLE DATE YOU, THEY EXPECT BROODG RIGGS AND GET SG KSCH?I THK WHEN YOU’RE A BAR OR SOMETHG—WHEN I’M AT A BAR AT, GUYS WILL E UP. THE BETY OF RIGGS, TOO, IS ’S GUYS AND GIRLS, SO ’S THE ULTIMATE FLATTERY. THERE WAS A GUY AT THE GYM L.A. AND MY HAIR IS REALLY SHORT NOW. HE HAD THIS LONG HAIR AND HE SAID, “DU, I FUCKG GREW MY HAIR FOR YOU.” AND I WAS LIKE, “UHHHH…WHAT?” AND HE SAID, “OH…UH…I MEAN I GREW BEE RIGGS HAD LONG HAIR, AND HE WAS GETTG LAID ALL THE TIME.” AND I WAS LIKE, “HOW’S THAT GOG FOR YA?” AND HE SAID, “YOU KNOW, I THK FUCK’ WORKS!” I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY. HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN NFED WH TOM BRADY? YOU GUYS KD OF LOOK ALIKE WH THE SHORT HAIR.MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE! BUT NOT A LOT.THEY RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THE NEW GAMB FILM WH CHANNG TATUM PLAYG THE CAJUN SUPERHERO. YOU, OF URSE, ORIGATED THE CHARACTER X-MEN ORIGS: WOLVERE. DID YOU GET A CRACK AT THE PART BEFORE THEY ST CHANNG?UM…NO, I DIDN’T HAVE A GO. EVER SCE WE FISHED THE MOVIE, ’S NEVER REALLY BEEN AN OPTN. BUT NO, I WISH [CHANNG] NOTHG BUT THE BT. IT WAS A FUN CHARACTER TO PLAY, AND I LEARNED A LOT WORKG WH HUGH [JACKMAN] AND HAD AN AMAZG TIME ATRALIA. I’M SURE THEY’RE DOG THEIR OWN THG WH , AND I’M SURE CHANNG WILL BE GREAT.WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE G UP AFTER TE DETECTIVE?WE’RE JT KD OF TAKG A BEAT. I WAED A FULL YEAR FOR TE DETECTIVE TO BE GREEN-L, AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM WAG FOR THAT NEXT ONE. WE LOVE THE TRACK THAT WE’RE ON, AND ’S ALL ABOUT WAG OUT FOR THAT NEXT GIG THAT YOU JT HAVE TO DO. IT’S BEEN FLATTERG WH A LOT OF GOOD MATERIAL G OUR WAY. DID YOU BEE MORE PATIENT WH YOUR CHOIC OF ROL AFTER JOHN CARTER AND BATTLHIP?A LOT OF THOSE WERE NO-BRAERS TO ME, TOO—ALL THE FIGHTS THAT ME AND [ANDREW] STANTON HAD TO TRY AND GET JOHN CARTER MA. AND PETE BERG, TOO. I WAS TALKG TO PETE LERALLY A UPLE OF HOURS AGO AND WE’RE LOOKG TO DO SOMETHG TOGETHER SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. WE HAD SUCH AN AMAZG TIME ON BATTLHIP AND LONE SURVIVOR, AND THE SHORTHAND ME AND PETE HAVE AND THE RELATNSHIP WE HAVE OFF-MERA IS REALLY GOOD. IT WAS A STRG OF REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNI THAT WERE NO-BRAERS. AND SAVAG, TOO. I WOULD DO ALL OF THOSE ALL OVER AGA. IN THE SENSE OF PATIENCE, THE GAME IS A LOT DIFFERENT NOW THAN WAS EVEN FOUR YEARS AGO. A LOT OF THE GOOD MATERIAL IS GOG TO BLE SHOWS, AND THE LAST TWO YEARS I’VE BEEN WORKG WH HBO. IT’S ABOUT TRYG TO FD THAT GOOD MATERIAL, AND A LOT OF TIM ’S NOT BEG MA TO FILMS. THE GAME HAS FELY CHANGED. MARLOW STERN

But here's the thg about this storyle, I'm all for Pl beg revealed as a gay character and watchg him ntue to grapple wh that, but not if 's ed as jt that: a reveal, or a twist of some kd. This is not somethg that should be played for shock 've already seen that Pl seems to hold anger towards gay men.

He's ma ments about gay people, cludg g a gradg slur when referrg to a man who supposedly h on him at a bank.

Pajiba's Dt Rowl lled for Te Detective to give Pl "a ltle more plexy and nuance" than beg "a self-hatg gay stereotype, " while after watchg last week's episo, Hfix's Alan Sepwall posed that Pl is "gay and tryg very very hard not to be. "Ksch actually implied that his character is gay an terview wh The Daily Beast. I also hope that if Pl is gay, we see some reasong as to why he feels the need to keep his sexualy a secret.