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- 'TE DETECTIVE' REP: GAY CLUBS, GOLD GRILLZ AND E-CIGARETT
- 5 WAYS TE DETECTIVE COULD REEM ITSELF THE FALEIT’S TOO LATE FOR PL WOODGH (UNLS GHOSTS ARE ON THE MENU), BUT A FEW OTHER CHARACTER HAVE THE CHANCE TO W OVER THE END.BY JOANNA ROBSONAUGT 7, 2015RACHEL MCADAMS, TE DETECTIVECOURTY OF LACEY TERRELL/HBO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE’S NO QUTN THAT TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2 WASN’T RECEIVED WH THE SAME ECSTATIC ENTHIASM VIEWERS SHOWED LAST YEAR. BUT AS THE HBO DRAMA WRAPS UP S EIGHT-EPISO SEASON WH A SUPERSIZE 90-MUTE FALE, THERE IS STILL SOME HOPE THE SHOW ULD TOUCH THE GLORY OF S FIRST, OBSSIVELY DISCSED SEASON. EXCEPT FOR THE ACTUAL UNMASKG, THE CENTRAL MYSTERY OF THE SE IS PRETTY MUCH WRAPPED UP. AND WH TAYLOR KSCH’S THIRD WHEEL FATALLY REMOVED OM THE EQUATN AT THE END OF THIS WEEK, THE SHOW IS BACK TO THE DYNAMIC THAT FED THE FIRST SEASON: TWO DAMAGED TECTIV AND THEIR PLITED BACK-AND-FORTH. HERE’S HOW THE FALE ULD SERVE THOSE CHARACTERS BT AND SEND TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2 OUT ON A HIGH NOTE.A MASSIVE SHOOT-OUT: ONE OF THE BIGGT FACTORS DRAGGG THE SEASON DOWN HAS BEEN ALL THE SI CHARACTERS WHO ARE POSSIBLY, PROBABLY VOLVED THE CRIMAL NSPIRACY BUT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO TRACK. SCE THE BLOODY SHOOT-OUT AT THE END OF EPISO 4 WAS SO POPULAR WH MANY VIEWERS (THOUGH NOT THIS ONE), WHY NOT OPEN THE FALE WH ANOTHER HAIL OF BULLETS? BUT THIS TIME, STEAD OF ANONYMO EXTRAS GOG DOWN, LET’S MAKE BURRIS, HOLLOWAY, IL, OSIP, MCCANDLS, GELDOF, AND A CHSANI OR TWO. THOUGH ALL OF THE CHARACTERS LIKELY HAVE SOME ROLE TO PLAY THE FALE, ’S LOOKG LIKE NONE OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY THE CULPRS UNR THAT BIRD MASK. (IT’S PROBABLY THE EVEN LS REGNIZABLE CHARACTERS.) SO STEAD OF HAVG THEIR NTUED PRENCE CLOUD THE ALREADY CLOUDY PLOT, I THK ’S TIME THIS SHOW GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS. WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN SO WE N REALLY FOC ON A SATISFYG CLIMAX.SOME CLOSURE FOR PL: BURRIS, AT LEAST, WILL LIKELY GET SOME SORT OF BTAL SEND-OFF FOR THE CRIME OF GUNNG DOWN POOR, CLOSETED PL WOODGH AT THE END OF EPISO 7. BUT WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT OF PL, DON’T HIS PLOTLE FEEL LIKE THE SHOW’S MOST EGREGLY DANGLG THREAD? HERE WE HAVE A CLOSETED MAN GRAPPLG WH SOME FORM OF PTSD. THE SHOW SEEMS TO HAVE HAD THE FAL WORD ON PL THIS WEEK WHEN HIS FORMER LOVER MIGUEL LIVERED THE RATHER POTED MORAL OF THE STORY: “IF YOU’D JT BEEN HONT ABOUT WHO YOU ARE, NOBODY’D BE ABLE TO N YOU.” WOODGH THANKED MIGUEL FOR THIS LSON BY KILLG HIM AND THEN TOOK SOME FATAL GUNSHOTS HIMSELF.SO AS STANDS, WOODGH FELL BEE HE ULDN’T NONT HIS TE SELF, AND BEZZERIS AND VELRO HAVE A SHOT AT REMPTN BEE THEY STILL MIGHT. (MORE ON THAT LATER.) BUT THAT’S NOT A VERY SATISFYG OR NUANCED TREATMENT OF THIS CHARACTER, IS ? TE DETECTIVE HAD AN OPPORTUNY THIS SEASON TO EXPLORE THE PH AND PULL OF EX-ARY MEN AND SUPPRSED SEXUALY. BUT A SEASON OVERSTUFFED WH TOO MUCH NVOLUTED PLOT AND NOT ENOUGH DIMENSNALY FOR S CHARACTERS, WOODGH’S SEXUALY JT BEME A FOOTNOTE. A “DIRTY SECRET” THAT WAS NEVER QUE ADDRSED. IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE ’S TOO LATE FOR THE SHOW TO EXAME THIS ASPECT ANY SIGNIFINT WAY, WHAT WH PL AD AND ALL. MAYBE A SCENE BETWEEN HIS PREGNANT FIANCéE AND MOTHER? MAYBE. BUT SHORT OF PL G BACK AS A GHOST (MORE ON THAT NEXT), I’M NOT SURE THE SHOW ACTUALLY N TURN THIS MISFIRE AROUND.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISGETTG WEIRD: AS WE SAW WH RAY’S CONWAY TWTY–THEMED AFTERLIFE SCENE EPISO 3, AD DON’T ALWAYS MEAN GONE FOR GOOD ON THIS SHOW. SURE, RAY WAS ONLY MOSTLY AD THIS SCENE, BUT THAT LEVEL OF WEIRD ACTUALLY WORKED TE DETECTIVE’S FAVOR. A LOT OF CRICS WROTE OFF THIS SCENE AS DAVID LYNCH-LE, BUT ONE THG THIS SEASON OF TE DETECTIVE ULD E IS MORE WEIRDNS. I’M NOT SUGGTG PL SHOULD HANG AROUND THE G OF THE FALE RATTLG GHOSTLY GAY CHAS, BUT THE MORE SURREALY THE SHOW N MTER S FAL MOMENTS, THE BETTER.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISA BETRAYAL OM JORDAN: THIS OUTE IS PRETTY MUCH A GIVEN. THE SHOW HASN’T EXACTLY BEEN SUBTLE ABOUT JORDAN’S POTENTIAL TO BETRAY HER HBAND FRANK. KELLY REILLY IS A GREAT ACTRS WH A SOLID C.V. TO HER NAME, BUT HER CHARACTER THIS SEASON HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE MAP. THE STILTED LIVERY AND SCTABLE EMOTNAL BEATS HAVE TO HAVE SOME SORT OF PAYOFF, DON’T THEY? IF JORDAN IS PART OF A LONG N, EHER HOOTS WH BLAKE OR OUT FOR HERSELF, THEN THE WEIRDNS OF HER SEASON-LONG PORTRAYAL WOULD FALLY MAKE SENSE. MAYBE THIS IS WHY WE MET HER EX-BOYIEND, PLAYED BY THE OFFICE’S DAVID DENMAN. MAYBE JORDAN AND HER EX DOUBLE-CROSS FRANK, REVEALG HIS TRAGIC FLAW TO BE, WHAT, HIS AFFECTN FOR HER? THAT ULD WORK. EHER WAY, REILLY IS DUE SOME SORT OF PAYOFF FOR THIS THANKLS ROLE.A TRIUMPH FOR ANI: NO MATTER WHAT THE CRICISMS FOR THIS SEASON OF TE DETECTIVE, RACHEL MCADAMS HAS, CURLY, EMERGED OM THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE PRETTY CLEAN WH BOTH CRICS AND VIEWERS CG HER AS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE SERI. LIKE PL, ANI HASN’T EXACTLY ADDRSED HER MONS. HER RAPID PIVOT OM REVISG SEXUAL TRMA TO HOOKG UP WH RAY VELRO WAS A PUZZLG TRAJECTORY. BUT, NOHELS, EVERYONE STILL WATCHG TE DETECTIVE IS ROOTG FOR MCADAMS TO WALK AWAY WH THE FALE. THAT DON’T NECSARILY MEAN HER CHARACTER SHOULD EMERGE OM THIS ALL ONE PIECE; I STILL HAVE PLENTY OF LGERG QUTNS ABOUT HOW MUCH HER FATHER WAS VOLVED THE CENTRAL MYSTERY AND THE FATE OF HER RECENTLY REFORMED SISTER. BUT MCADAMS NEEDS AND SERV THE LN’S SHARE OF THE SCREEN TIME AND SOME MEATY DRAMATIC NTENT TO WORK WH. IF THAT MEANS AN EMOTNAL FAY NONTATN AND A TRAGIC END? SO BE . AS LONG AS SHE GO DOWN SWGG.JOANNA ROBSON
'TE DETECTIVE' REP: GAY CLUBS, GOLD GRILLZ AND E-CIGARETT
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.
5 WAYS TE DETECTIVE COULD REEM ITSELF THE FALEIT’S TOO LATE FOR PL WOODGH (UNLS GHOSTS ARE ON THE MENU), BUT A FEW OTHER CHARACTER HAVE THE CHANCE TO W OVER THE END.BY JOANNA ROBSONAUGT 7, 2015RACHEL MCADAMS, TE DETECTIVECOURTY OF LACEY TERRELL/HBO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE’S NO QUTN THAT TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2 WASN’T RECEIVED WH THE SAME ECSTATIC ENTHIASM VIEWERS SHOWED LAST YEAR. BUT AS THE HBO DRAMA WRAPS UP S EIGHT-EPISO SEASON WH A SUPERSIZE 90-MUTE FALE, THERE IS STILL SOME HOPE THE SHOW ULD TOUCH THE GLORY OF S FIRST, OBSSIVELY DISCSED SEASON. EXCEPT FOR THE ACTUAL UNMASKG, THE CENTRAL MYSTERY OF THE SE IS PRETTY MUCH WRAPPED UP. AND WH TAYLOR KSCH’S THIRD WHEEL FATALLY REMOVED OM THE EQUATN AT THE END OF THIS WEEK, THE SHOW IS BACK TO THE DYNAMIC THAT FED THE FIRST SEASON: TWO DAMAGED TECTIV AND THEIR PLITED BACK-AND-FORTH. HERE’S HOW THE FALE ULD SERVE THOSE CHARACTERS BT AND SEND TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2 OUT ON A HIGH NOTE.A MASSIVE SHOOT-OUT: ONE OF THE BIGGT FACTORS DRAGGG THE SEASON DOWN HAS BEEN ALL THE SI CHARACTERS WHO ARE POSSIBLY, PROBABLY VOLVED THE CRIMAL NSPIRACY BUT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO TRACK. SCE THE BLOODY SHOOT-OUT AT THE END OF EPISO 4 WAS SO POPULAR WH MANY VIEWERS (THOUGH NOT THIS ONE), WHY NOT OPEN THE FALE WH ANOTHER HAIL OF BULLETS? BUT THIS TIME, STEAD OF ANONYMO EXTRAS GOG DOWN, LET’S MAKE BURRIS, HOLLOWAY, IL, OSIP, MCCANDLS, GELDOF, AND A CHSANI OR TWO. THOUGH ALL OF THE CHARACTERS LIKELY HAVE SOME ROLE TO PLAY THE FALE, ’S LOOKG LIKE NONE OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY THE CULPRS UNR THAT BIRD MASK. (IT’S PROBABLY THE EVEN LS REGNIZABLE CHARACTERS.) SO STEAD OF HAVG THEIR NTUED PRENCE CLOUD THE ALREADY CLOUDY PLOT, I THK ’S TIME THIS SHOW GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS. WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN SO WE N REALLY FOC ON A SATISFYG CLIMAX.SOME CLOSURE FOR PL: BURRIS, AT LEAST, WILL LIKELY GET SOME SORT OF BTAL SEND-OFF FOR THE CRIME OF GUNNG DOWN POOR, CLOSETED PL WOODGH AT THE END OF EPISO 7. BUT WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT OF PL, DON’T HIS PLOTLE FEEL LIKE THE SHOW’S MOST EGREGLY DANGLG THREAD? HERE WE HAVE A CLOSETED MAN GRAPPLG WH SOME FORM OF PTSD. THE SHOW SEEMS TO HAVE HAD THE FAL WORD ON PL THIS WEEK WHEN HIS FORMER LOVER MIGUEL LIVERED THE RATHER POTED MORAL OF THE STORY: “IF YOU’D JT BEEN HONT ABOUT WHO YOU ARE, NOBODY’D BE ABLE TO N YOU.” WOODGH THANKED MIGUEL FOR THIS LSON BY KILLG HIM AND THEN TOOK SOME FATAL GUNSHOTS HIMSELF.SO AS STANDS, WOODGH FELL BEE HE ULDN’T NONT HIS TE SELF, AND BEZZERIS AND VELRO HAVE A SHOT AT REMPTN BEE THEY STILL MIGHT. (MORE ON THAT LATER.) BUT THAT’S NOT A VERY SATISFYG OR NUANCED TREATMENT OF THIS CHARACTER, IS ? TE DETECTIVE HAD AN OPPORTUNY THIS SEASON TO EXPLORE THE PH AND PULL OF EX-ARY MEN AND SUPPRSED SEXUALY. BUT A SEASON OVERSTUFFED WH TOO MUCH NVOLUTED PLOT AND NOT ENOUGH DIMENSNALY FOR S CHARACTERS, WOODGH’S SEXUALY JT BEME A FOOTNOTE. A “DIRTY SECRET” THAT WAS NEVER QUE ADDRSED. IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE ’S TOO LATE FOR THE SHOW TO EXAME THIS ASPECT ANY SIGNIFINT WAY, WHAT WH PL AD AND ALL. MAYBE A SCENE BETWEEN HIS PREGNANT FIANCéE AND MOTHER? MAYBE. BUT SHORT OF PL G BACK AS A GHOST (MORE ON THAT NEXT), I’M NOT SURE THE SHOW ACTUALLY N TURN THIS MISFIRE AROUND.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISGETTG WEIRD: AS WE SAW WH RAY’S CONWAY TWTY–THEMED AFTERLIFE SCENE EPISO 3, AD DON’T ALWAYS MEAN GONE FOR GOOD ON THIS SHOW. SURE, RAY WAS ONLY MOSTLY AD THIS SCENE, BUT THAT LEVEL OF WEIRD ACTUALLY WORKED TE DETECTIVE’S FAVOR. A LOT OF CRICS WROTE OFF THIS SCENE AS DAVID LYNCH-LE, BUT ONE THG THIS SEASON OF TE DETECTIVE ULD E IS MORE WEIRDNS. I’M NOT SUGGTG PL SHOULD HANG AROUND THE G OF THE FALE RATTLG GHOSTLY GAY CHAS, BUT THE MORE SURREALY THE SHOW N MTER S FAL MOMENTS, THE BETTER.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISA BETRAYAL OM JORDAN: THIS OUTE IS PRETTY MUCH A GIVEN. THE SHOW HASN’T EXACTLY BEEN SUBTLE ABOUT JORDAN’S POTENTIAL TO BETRAY HER HBAND FRANK. KELLY REILLY IS A GREAT ACTRS WH A SOLID C.V. TO HER NAME, BUT HER CHARACTER THIS SEASON HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE MAP. THE STILTED LIVERY AND SCTABLE EMOTNAL BEATS HAVE TO HAVE SOME SORT OF PAYOFF, DON’T THEY? IF JORDAN IS PART OF A LONG N, EHER HOOTS WH BLAKE OR OUT FOR HERSELF, THEN THE WEIRDNS OF HER SEASON-LONG PORTRAYAL WOULD FALLY MAKE SENSE. MAYBE THIS IS WHY WE MET HER EX-BOYIEND, PLAYED BY THE OFFICE’S DAVID DENMAN. MAYBE JORDAN AND HER EX DOUBLE-CROSS FRANK, REVEALG HIS TRAGIC FLAW TO BE, WHAT, HIS AFFECTN FOR HER? THAT ULD WORK. EHER WAY, REILLY IS DUE SOME SORT OF PAYOFF FOR THIS THANKLS ROLE.A TRIUMPH FOR ANI: NO MATTER WHAT THE CRICISMS FOR THIS SEASON OF TE DETECTIVE, RACHEL MCADAMS HAS, CURLY, EMERGED OM THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE PRETTY CLEAN WH BOTH CRICS AND VIEWERS CG HER AS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE SERI. LIKE PL, ANI HASN’T EXACTLY ADDRSED HER MONS. HER RAPID PIVOT OM REVISG SEXUAL TRMA TO HOOKG UP WH RAY VELRO WAS A PUZZLG TRAJECTORY. BUT, NOHELS, EVERYONE STILL WATCHG TE DETECTIVE IS ROOTG FOR MCADAMS TO WALK AWAY WH THE FALE. THAT DON’T NECSARILY MEAN HER CHARACTER SHOULD EMERGE OM THIS ALL ONE PIECE; I STILL HAVE PLENTY OF LGERG QUTNS ABOUT HOW MUCH HER FATHER WAS VOLVED THE CENTRAL MYSTERY AND THE FATE OF HER RECENTLY REFORMED SISTER. BUT MCADAMS NEEDS AND SERV THE LN’S SHARE OF THE SCREEN TIME AND SOME MEATY DRAMATIC NTENT TO WORK WH. IF THAT MEANS AN EMOTNAL FAY NONTATN AND A TRAGIC END? SO BE . AS LONG AS SHE GO DOWN SWGG.JOANNA ROBSON
"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. We get a glimpse of him teractg wh his mother, did she raise him to have homophobia or do he jt have fear and hatred towards his inty for some other reason?
So a lot of people seem to thk he's gay, maly due to overpensatg and the obv gawkg at the male prostute, 's obv.