Flashback: 'That '70s Show's Very Special Gay Episo Do Not Age Well

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• 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
• ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER
• FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL
• ‘THAT ’90S SHOW’ IS A CYNIL TRAWRECK: EVERYTHG THAT ANNOYED ME ABOUT ITGOODBYE, WISCONSIN!HOW DID THIS AWFUL REBOOT OF ‘THAT ’70S SHOW’ BETRAY ME? LET ME UNT THE WAYS…LRA BRADLEYSENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JAN. 22, 2023 12:40AM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 21, 2023 10:17PM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ER O'FLYNN/THE DAILY BEAST/NETFLIXTHERE’S A MOMENT THAT ’90S SHOW WHEN BOB PCTTI—FATHER TO LRA PREPON’S THAT ’70S SHOW CHARACTER, DONNA—SERENAS HIS GRANDDGHTER WH AN CREDIBLY APPROPRIATE BALLAD. IT’S THE KD OF MOMENT THAT WOULD HAVE FELT RIGHT AT HOME THE ORIGAL SERI, BUT SADLY, DON’T QUE H THE SAME NOW. THE SCENE, LIKE MUCH OF THE SHOW THAT NTAS , FEELS MORE AK TO TAKG A PUFF OF SPERATN OM A MOLDY OLD JOT.THERE WAS NO FAIAR HIGH AS I WATCHED A JERRY-CURLED DON STARK BLEAT OUT BOYZ II MEN’S “I’LL MAKE LOVE TO YOU” TO HIS GRANDDGHTER, LEIA FORMAN. INSTEAD, I FELT A STRANGE MOMENT OF SYNCHRONICY WH THAT POOR, MORTIFIED TEENAGER. LIKE HER, I WAS WNSG A PLETE LLAPSE OF MEDIA PREHENSN. THAT ’90S SHOW IS A FAILURE TO READ THE ROOM ON PAR WH CRYSTAL PEPSI—A TRANSPARENT, POORLY BRAND FAILURE THAT LEAV A PRSG TASTE THE MOUTH.THE MOST STANTLY NOTICEABLE MISTAK THAT ’90S SHOW E DOWN TO STG AND WRG. THE ORIGAL THAT ’70S TEENS HAD THE KD OF CHEMISTRY THAT MOST STG AGENTS ONLY DREAM ABOUT. ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS GO-AROUND, PASTAKG EFFORTS WOULD HAVE BEEN MA TO ENSURE THAT THE NEW KIDS OF POT PLACE, WISNS WOULD HAVE THE SAME RAPPORT. SADLY, NETFLIX DID NOT BOTHER TO DO THIS; PLACE OF A HODGE-PODGE OF PLEMENTARY MISFS, WE GET A ROOMFUL OF TEENS WHOSE REASONS FOR HANGG OUT TOGETHER ARE BORRLE IMPOSSIBLE TO FATHOM.CONSIR, FOR STANCE, THE WAY LEIA FORMAN—ERIC AND DONNA’S DORKY DGHTER, PREDICTABLY NAMED AFTER A CERTA STAR WARS PRCS—MEETS HER FIRST IEND POT PLACE. WHEN SHE AND HER PARENTS STOP BY FOR A VIS AHEAD OF A FATHER-DGHTER TRIP TO SPACE MP, LEIA WANRS OFF TO SPY ON A COOL GIRL™ NEXT DOOR, WHOM SHE HEARS JAMMG OUT TO ALANIS MORISSETTE. WHEN SAID NEIGHBOR—GWEN, PLAYED BY ASHLEY AUFRHEI—TCH HER, THEY BEE IENDS WHOUT CINT BEE SPE BEG A VOYR AND A DORK, LEIA HAPPENS TO HAVE A BOOTLEGGED CD OM CHIGO. HOW DO THAT WORK? WHILE WE’RE ASKG QUTNS: WHY IS THE DRIVEN AND STUD NIKKI (SAM MORELOS) ACTUALLY TERTED HER BLANDLY RENRED JOCK BOYIEND, NATE (MAXWELL ACEE DONOVAN)? THAT ’90S SHOW SEEMS TO BELIEVE THAT IF VIEWERS SEE THEM MAKE OUT ENOUGH, THEY’LL BELIEVE THE RELATNSHIP—BUT AS ASHTON KUTCHER AND MILA KUNIS’ MICHAEL AND JACKIE OM THE ORIGAL N TELL YOU, THE KEY TO A GOOD TV RELATNSHIP IS ALL ABOUT THE ROMANTIC TENSN, AND THE TWO SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE . KURTWOOD SMH AS RED FORMAN, TOPHER GRACE AS ERIC FORMAN, DEBRA JO RUPP AS KTY FORMAN, CALLIE HAVERDA AS LEIA FORMAN EPISO 101 OF THAT ‘90S SHOW. PATRICK WYMORE/NETFLIX AND SPEAKG OF KELSOS: IS JAY KELSO (SON OF MICHAEL AND JACKIE, AND THE HUNK OF THE GROUP) SUPPOSED TO BE, LIKE, LIKABLE? BEE AS HE EXISTS THIS SERI, HE’S MOSTLY JT OILED UP AND OAFISH. NOT EXACTLY A HEARTTHROB. ALSO, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO KELSO’S DGHTER, BETSY, AND HER MOTHER BROOKE? HOW ARE KELSO AND JACKIE TOGETHER AFTER ENDG THE SERI DIFFERENT RELATNSHIPS? DO FEZ STILL RRY A TORCH FOR JACKIE? GOD KNOWS WE’RE NOT MENTNG HER PAST RELATNSHIP WH HY—OR HY HIMSELF, FOR GOOD REASON—BUT ARE WE REALLY GOG TO PRETEND LIKE BETSY AND BROOKE NEVER HAPPENED? AS KELSO HIMSELF MIGHT SAY: BURN?IT SHOULD E AS NO SURPRISE, GIVEN HOW LTLE RE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PUT TO NSTCTG THE NEW CHARACTERS AND ARCS, THAT THAT ’90S SHOW’S FAIARY WH THE ’90S IS FACILE AT BT AND PURE REVISNIST DREAMG AT WORST.GWEN MIGHT VOKE THE RT GRRRL MANIFTO, BUT SHE ALSO ADMS TO HAVG ONLY SKIMMED —WHICH IS BASILLY WHAT THE SERI DO WH ’90S CULTURE WR LARGE. SAVE FOR A HORRENDOLY DISTRACTG WIG ON MORELOS, PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE STUM SEEN HERE ULD BE PURCHASED ON SHE. (SAVE, PERHAPS, FOR NATE, WHOSE VOTN TO JERSEYS AS FASHN STATEMENTS DO FEEL VERY ’90S.) RATHER THAN ENGAGE WH WHAT LIFE WAS ACTUALLY LIKE AT THE TIME, THAT ’90S SHOW GRAFTS OLD REFERENC ONTO WHAT OTHERWISE ULD BE A MORN SETTG: ZIMA! BILL CLTON ON ARSEN! FLANNEL! ALANIS! IT’S A CEL IRONY THAT ’90’S ONE ENTERTAG ADDN TO THE THAT ’70S SHOW UNIVERSE ALSO HAPPENS TO BE S MOST IMPLSIBLE: AS OZZIE, ACTOR REYN DOI IS A CHARISMATIC FORCE. HIS EDIC TIMG IS KILLER, AND HIS NSISTENTLY SHARP LE LIVERI BREATHE LIFE TO AN OTHERWISE NARLEPTIC SCRIPT. UNFORTUNATELY, GIVEN THE SETTG, THIS CHARACTER MAK LTLE TO NO SENSE.THAT ’90S SHOW LIK TO IMAGE A KR VERSN OF S TIME PERD. THE SHOW’S VISN OF SUBURBAN WISNS IS DIVERSE AND ACCEPTG—SO MUCH SO THAT OZZIE, A YOUNG GAY TEEN, IS OUT TO ALL OF HIS IENDS AND HAS A MULTI-STEP PLAN TO EVENTUALLY E OUT TO EVERYONE ELSE. ON ONE HAND, ’S HEARTWARMG TO SEE THIS CHARACTER ON SCREEN. BUT THIS APPROACH ALSO THREATENS TO ERASE THE GRIM REALI OF THOSE TIM—REALI THAT NTUE TO FLUENCE THE PRENT. REYN DOI AS OZZIE EPISO 101 OF THAT ‘90S SHOW. PATRICK WYMORE/NETFLIX THERE’S A REASON THAT FRIENDS—A SERI THAT ACTUALLY AIRED THE ’90S—SPENT NEARLY S ENTIRE N PRETENDG THAT BLACK PEOPLE DON’T EXIST NEW YORK. THE TERM “SUPERPREDATOR” SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE THE MID-90S, RAG TERROR ON A GENERATN OF BLACK YOUTH. ELLEN DEGENER LOST HER SHOW AND ALMOST HER REER BEE SHE ME OUT ON TELEVISN AS A FICTNALIZED VERSN OF HERSELF; TELEVANGELIST JERRY FALWELL BRAND HER “ELLEN DEGENERATE,” A NICKNAME THAT BEME POPULAR AMONG BIGOTS FAR AND WI. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE LATE 2000’S THAT AN AD MPAIGN BEGAN TO PH BACK AGAST PHRAS LIKE “THAT’S SO GAY!”IT’S MORE PLEASANT TO IMAGE A VERSN OF THE ’90S (OR TODAY) WHICH SUBURBAN WISNS IS NOT SO LILY-WHE. IT’S SOOTHG TO PICTURE THE ’90S AS A TIME SHAPED BY POP HS AND NOVELTY SOFT DRKS STEAD OF REPRSIVE POLICI LIKE THE 1994 CRIME BILL, THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, AND DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL. AND ’S THARTIC, TO A POT, TO SEE A YOUNG GAY TEENAGER G TO HIS OWN SUCH A PLACE—WHOUT THE FEAR AND TERNALIZED SHAME MANY OF REAL-LIFE FORMER QUEER KIDS OF THE ’90S ED TO RRY. BUT WHO, OR WHAT, ARE THE WARM, FUZZY, SOFT-FOCED DREAMS OF OUR LLECTIVE PAST REALLY HELPG?THAT ’90S SHOW ONLY FEELS MORE CYNIL ONCE FEZ SHOWS UP. IF THE ARGUMENT FOR CLUDG AN ANACHRONISTIC CHARACTER LIKE OZZIE THAT DOG SO HELPS RIGHT THE PROBLEMATIC WRONGS OF THE PAST, WHY IS WILMER VALRAMMA’S HEAVILY ACCENTED FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUNT STILL AS STEREOTYPIL AS EVER? IN FACT, THE PRIMARY JOKE ABOUT FEZ THROUGHOUT THE NEW SERI REMAS HIS FEMIZED PRENTATN—A PUNCHLE ONE WOULD THK WE’D BE LEAVG BEHD IF WE’RE TRYG TO TAKE A MORE ENLIGHTENED VIEW ON SEX, SEXUALY, AND GENR. BUT HOLLYWOOD HAS A TALENT FOR SELF MYTHOLOGY, AND ONE OF THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY’S GREATT TRICKS OVER THE YEARS HAS BEEN NVCG A GENERATN OF VIEWERS THAT REPRENTATN PRODUC REAL SOCIAL PROGRS WHEN REALY, ’S MERELY A SYMPTOM OF PROGRS MA ELSEWHERE. ANOTHER NETFLIX SERI, RYAN MURPHY’S HOLLYWOOD, WAS EMBLEMATIC OF THAT PERNIC IA: THE SERI CREAT A FANTASY OF TSELTOWN’S GOLN AGE WHICH EVERYONE N FD ACCEPTANCE AND REGNN. IT’S A PLEASANT FANTASY, BUT JT LIKE THAT ’90S SHOW, ’S ALSO AN EMPTY ONE THAT DO MORE TO OBSCURE THE WRONGS OF THE PAST THAN TO FIX THEM THE PRENT.IN THAT ’90S SHOW’S SE, THIS MIGHT ALL BE AN OVERREACTN. EVEN AS A VOUT BUZZKILL, I REGNIZE THAT THIS SHOW IS, AT S RE, A HO-HUM REVIVAL OF AN EXCELLENT BUT MOSTLY ORDARY S. BUT THERE’S SOMETHG SID ABOUT PROJECTS LIKE THE—LAZY HALF-REMEMBRANC OF THE PAST THAT VE TO RCE OUR CULTURAL HISTORY TO A LLECTIBLE STACK OF SONG TL AND PRODUCTS WHILE SWEEPG ALL THE BAD STUFF UNR THE DOOR-OUTDOOR RPETG. IT’S A GREAT PLOY FOR MEDIA EXECUTIV, WHO REMA OVERWHELMGLY WHE AND STRAIGHT AND WEALTHY ENOUGH TO BE REMOVED OM THE ISSU THAT UNRP EVERYDAY LIFE THE REAL WORLD. BUT WHAT’S DOG FOR EVERYONE ELSE?KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK. LRA BRADLEY
• IS FEZ GAY NETFLIX’S THAT 90S SHOW: REDD USER WONRS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY!

'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF

In realy, Buddy was gay and had a major csh on Eric.

Due to Eric's nstant talk about his plited relatnship wh Donna Pctti, Buddy thought that Eric might also be gay. Grace's character, of urse, wasn't gay and acted plete shock. The 1998 kiss om the actors occurred jt mere months before another gay kiss on Dawson's Creek.

‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER

It wasn't the first gay kiss, however, sce there were several shows prr to That '70s Show that featured a smooch between two female characters. The seri was also set the '70s when many people weren't open to homosexualy, and the suatn was a product of the tim.

Lookg to revent herself, Leia starts to realize that through new iendships and adventur she may be able to do jt that Pot Place, jt like her parents did all those years before viewers appeared divid by LGBTQ reprentatn the show, cludg character Ozzie (Reyn Doi) who out as gay durg the first season. " In the first season, Ozzie me out as gay.

In That '90s Show, Ozzie is out and proud wh his clost iends, namely Leia, her neighbor Gwen (Ashley Aufrhei), Gwen's brother Nate (Maxwell Acee Donovan), and his girliend Nikki (Sam Morelos) is also another sweet moment the first season, where Ozzie tells Kty about his sexualy and asks her if she was "okay" wh the fact that he is gay, to which she rponds that of urse she is okay wh , and giv him a storyle and the cln of a gay character has been hailed as groundbreakg, wh Canadian LGBTQ publitn In Magaze sayg Ozzie "leads the charge for a wele change reprentatn" ss.

FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL

Reflectg on the show as a whole, one viewer said they "love the cln of a gay character, " while another hailed the scene which Kty reacted to Ozzie tellg her that he is viewer wrote: "THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY [sic]"THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY????? #That90sShow— ✨?✨ (@toriimariaa) January 19, 2023.

Is believable there would be a gay teenager who's out to his iends and they're jt ok wh WISCONSIN of all plac the 1990s?!

Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl"Look I love reprentatn but like #That90sShow... Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl— ?ℝ?? (@krztophr) January 19, 2023.

‘THAT ’90S SHOW’ IS A CYNIL TRAWRECK: EVERYTHG THAT ANNOYED ME ABOUT ITGOODBYE, WISCONSIN!HOW DID THIS AWFUL REBOOT OF ‘THAT ’70S SHOW’ BETRAY ME? LET ME UNT THE WAYS…LRA BRADLEYSENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JAN. 22, 2023 12:40AM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 21, 2023 10:17PM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ER O'FLYNN/THE DAILY BEAST/NETFLIXTHERE’S A MOMENT THAT ’90S SHOW WHEN BOB PCTTI—FATHER TO LRA PREPON’S THAT ’70S SHOW CHARACTER, DONNA—SERENAS HIS GRANDDGHTER WH AN CREDIBLY APPROPRIATE BALLAD. IT’S THE KD OF MOMENT THAT WOULD HAVE FELT RIGHT AT HOME THE ORIGAL SERI, BUT SADLY, DON’T QUE H THE SAME NOW. THE SCENE, LIKE MUCH OF THE SHOW THAT NTAS , FEELS MORE AK TO TAKG A PUFF OF SPERATN OM A MOLDY OLD JOT.THERE WAS NO FAIAR HIGH AS I WATCHED A JERRY-CURLED DON STARK BLEAT OUT BOYZ II MEN’S “I’LL MAKE LOVE TO YOU” TO HIS GRANDDGHTER, LEIA FORMAN. INSTEAD, I FELT A STRANGE MOMENT OF SYNCHRONICY WH THAT POOR, MORTIFIED TEENAGER. LIKE HER, I WAS WNSG A PLETE LLAPSE OF MEDIA PREHENSN. THAT ’90S SHOW IS A FAILURE TO READ THE ROOM ON PAR WH CRYSTAL PEPSI—A TRANSPARENT, POORLY BRAND FAILURE THAT LEAV A PRSG TASTE THE MOUTH.THE MOST STANTLY NOTICEABLE MISTAK THAT ’90S SHOW E DOWN TO STG AND WRG. THE ORIGAL THAT ’70S TEENS HAD THE KD OF CHEMISTRY THAT MOST STG AGENTS ONLY DREAM ABOUT. ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS GO-AROUND, PASTAKG EFFORTS WOULD HAVE BEEN MA TO ENSURE THAT THE NEW KIDS OF POT PLACE, WISNS WOULD HAVE THE SAME RAPPORT. SADLY, NETFLIX DID NOT BOTHER TO DO THIS; PLACE OF A HODGE-PODGE OF PLEMENTARY MISFS, WE GET A ROOMFUL OF TEENS WHOSE REASONS FOR HANGG OUT TOGETHER ARE BORRLE IMPOSSIBLE TO FATHOM.CONSIR, FOR STANCE, THE WAY LEIA FORMAN—ERIC AND DONNA’S DORKY DGHTER, PREDICTABLY NAMED AFTER A CERTA STAR WARS PRCS—MEETS HER FIRST IEND POT PLACE. WHEN SHE AND HER PARENTS STOP BY FOR A VIS AHEAD OF A FATHER-DGHTER TRIP TO SPACE MP, LEIA WANRS OFF TO SPY ON A COOL GIRL™ NEXT DOOR, WHOM SHE HEARS JAMMG OUT TO ALANIS MORISSETTE. WHEN SAID NEIGHBOR—GWEN, PLAYED BY ASHLEY AUFRHEI—TCH HER, THEY BEE IENDS WHOUT CINT BEE SPE BEG A VOYR AND A DORK, LEIA HAPPENS TO HAVE A BOOTLEGGED CD OM CHIGO. HOW DO THAT WORK? WHILE WE’RE ASKG QUTNS: WHY IS THE DRIVEN AND STUD NIKKI (SAM MORELOS) ACTUALLY TERTED HER BLANDLY RENRED JOCK BOYIEND, NATE (MAXWELL ACEE DONOVAN)? THAT ’90S SHOW SEEMS TO BELIEVE THAT IF VIEWERS SEE THEM MAKE OUT ENOUGH, THEY’LL BELIEVE THE RELATNSHIP—BUT AS ASHTON KUTCHER AND MILA KUNIS’ MICHAEL AND JACKIE OM THE ORIGAL N TELL YOU, THE KEY TO A GOOD TV RELATNSHIP IS ALL ABOUT THE ROMANTIC TENSN, AND THE TWO SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE . KURTWOOD SMH AS RED FORMAN, TOPHER GRACE AS ERIC FORMAN, DEBRA JO RUPP AS KTY FORMAN, CALLIE HAVERDA AS LEIA FORMAN EPISO 101 OF THAT ‘90S SHOW. PATRICK WYMORE/NETFLIX AND SPEAKG OF KELSOS: IS JAY KELSO (SON OF MICHAEL AND JACKIE, AND THE HUNK OF THE GROUP) SUPPOSED TO BE, LIKE, LIKABLE? BEE AS HE EXISTS THIS SERI, HE’S MOSTLY JT OILED UP AND OAFISH. NOT EXACTLY A HEARTTHROB. ALSO, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO KELSO’S DGHTER, BETSY, AND HER MOTHER BROOKE? HOW ARE KELSO AND JACKIE TOGETHER AFTER ENDG THE SERI DIFFERENT RELATNSHIPS? DO FEZ STILL RRY A TORCH FOR JACKIE? GOD KNOWS WE’RE NOT MENTNG HER PAST RELATNSHIP WH HY—OR HY HIMSELF, FOR GOOD REASON—BUT ARE WE REALLY GOG TO PRETEND LIKE BETSY AND BROOKE NEVER HAPPENED? AS KELSO HIMSELF MIGHT SAY: BURN?IT SHOULD E AS NO SURPRISE, GIVEN HOW LTLE RE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PUT TO NSTCTG THE NEW CHARACTERS AND ARCS, THAT THAT ’90S SHOW’S FAIARY WH THE ’90S IS FACILE AT BT AND PURE REVISNIST DREAMG AT WORST.GWEN MIGHT VOKE THE RT GRRRL MANIFTO, BUT SHE ALSO ADMS TO HAVG ONLY SKIMMED —WHICH IS BASILLY WHAT THE SERI DO WH ’90S CULTURE WR LARGE. SAVE FOR A HORRENDOLY DISTRACTG WIG ON MORELOS, PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE STUM SEEN HERE ULD BE PURCHASED ON SHE. (SAVE, PERHAPS, FOR NATE, WHOSE VOTN TO JERSEYS AS FASHN STATEMENTS DO FEEL VERY ’90S.) RATHER THAN ENGAGE WH WHAT LIFE WAS ACTUALLY LIKE AT THE TIME, THAT ’90S SHOW GRAFTS OLD REFERENC ONTO WHAT OTHERWISE ULD BE A MORN SETTG: ZIMA! BILL CLTON ON ARSEN! FLANNEL! ALANIS! IT’S A CEL IRONY THAT ’90’S ONE ENTERTAG ADDN TO THE THAT ’70S SHOW UNIVERSE ALSO HAPPENS TO BE S MOST IMPLSIBLE: AS OZZIE, ACTOR REYN DOI IS A CHARISMATIC FORCE. HIS EDIC TIMG IS KILLER, AND HIS NSISTENTLY SHARP LE LIVERI BREATHE LIFE TO AN OTHERWISE NARLEPTIC SCRIPT. UNFORTUNATELY, GIVEN THE SETTG, THIS CHARACTER MAK LTLE TO NO SENSE.THAT ’90S SHOW LIK TO IMAGE A KR VERSN OF S TIME PERD. THE SHOW’S VISN OF SUBURBAN WISNS IS DIVERSE AND ACCEPTG—SO MUCH SO THAT OZZIE, A YOUNG GAY TEEN, IS OUT TO ALL OF HIS IENDS AND HAS A MULTI-STEP PLAN TO EVENTUALLY E OUT TO EVERYONE ELSE. ON ONE HAND, ’S HEARTWARMG TO SEE THIS CHARACTER ON SCREEN. BUT THIS APPROACH ALSO THREATENS TO ERASE THE GRIM REALI OF THOSE TIM—REALI THAT NTUE TO FLUENCE THE PRENT. REYN DOI AS OZZIE EPISO 101 OF THAT ‘90S SHOW. PATRICK WYMORE/NETFLIX THERE’S A REASON THAT FRIENDS—A SERI THAT ACTUALLY AIRED THE ’90S—SPENT NEARLY S ENTIRE N PRETENDG THAT BLACK PEOPLE DON’T EXIST NEW YORK. THE TERM “SUPERPREDATOR” SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE THE MID-90S, RAG TERROR ON A GENERATN OF BLACK YOUTH. ELLEN DEGENER LOST HER SHOW AND ALMOST HER REER BEE SHE ME OUT ON TELEVISN AS A FICTNALIZED VERSN OF HERSELF; TELEVANGELIST JERRY FALWELL BRAND HER “ELLEN DEGENERATE,” A NICKNAME THAT BEME POPULAR AMONG BIGOTS FAR AND WI. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE LATE 2000’S THAT AN AD MPAIGN BEGAN TO PH BACK AGAST PHRAS LIKE “THAT’S SO GAY!”IT’S MORE PLEASANT TO IMAGE A VERSN OF THE ’90S (OR TODAY) WHICH SUBURBAN WISNS IS NOT SO LILY-WHE. IT’S SOOTHG TO PICTURE THE ’90S AS A TIME SHAPED BY POP HS AND NOVELTY SOFT DRKS STEAD OF REPRSIVE POLICI LIKE THE 1994 CRIME BILL, THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, AND DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL. AND ’S THARTIC, TO A POT, TO SEE A YOUNG GAY TEENAGER G TO HIS OWN SUCH A PLACE—WHOUT THE FEAR AND TERNALIZED SHAME MANY OF REAL-LIFE FORMER QUEER KIDS OF THE ’90S ED TO RRY. BUT WHO, OR WHAT, ARE THE WARM, FUZZY, SOFT-FOCED DREAMS OF OUR LLECTIVE PAST REALLY HELPG?THAT ’90S SHOW ONLY FEELS MORE CYNIL ONCE FEZ SHOWS UP. IF THE ARGUMENT FOR CLUDG AN ANACHRONISTIC CHARACTER LIKE OZZIE THAT DOG SO HELPS RIGHT THE PROBLEMATIC WRONGS OF THE PAST, WHY IS WILMER VALRAMMA’S HEAVILY ACCENTED FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUNT STILL AS STEREOTYPIL AS EVER? IN FACT, THE PRIMARY JOKE ABOUT FEZ THROUGHOUT THE NEW SERI REMAS HIS FEMIZED PRENTATN—A PUNCHLE ONE WOULD THK WE’D BE LEAVG BEHD IF WE’RE TRYG TO TAKE A MORE ENLIGHTENED VIEW ON SEX, SEXUALY, AND GENR. BUT HOLLYWOOD HAS A TALENT FOR SELF MYTHOLOGY, AND ONE OF THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY’S GREATT TRICKS OVER THE YEARS HAS BEEN NVCG A GENERATN OF VIEWERS THAT REPRENTATN PRODUC REAL SOCIAL PROGRS WHEN REALY, ’S MERELY A SYMPTOM OF PROGRS MA ELSEWHERE. ANOTHER NETFLIX SERI, RYAN MURPHY’S HOLLYWOOD, WAS EMBLEMATIC OF THAT PERNIC IA: THE SERI CREAT A FANTASY OF TSELTOWN’S GOLN AGE WHICH EVERYONE N FD ACCEPTANCE AND REGNN. IT’S A PLEASANT FANTASY, BUT JT LIKE THAT ’90S SHOW, ’S ALSO AN EMPTY ONE THAT DO MORE TO OBSCURE THE WRONGS OF THE PAST THAN TO FIX THEM THE PRENT.IN THAT ’90S SHOW’S SE, THIS MIGHT ALL BE AN OVERREACTN. EVEN AS A VOUT BUZZKILL, I REGNIZE THAT THIS SHOW IS, AT S RE, A HO-HUM REVIVAL OF AN EXCELLENT BUT MOSTLY ORDARY S. BUT THERE’S SOMETHG SID ABOUT PROJECTS LIKE THE—LAZY HALF-REMEMBRANC OF THE PAST THAT VE TO RCE OUR CULTURAL HISTORY TO A LLECTIBLE STACK OF SONG TL AND PRODUCTS WHILE SWEEPG ALL THE BAD STUFF UNR THE DOOR-OUTDOOR RPETG. IT’S A GREAT PLOY FOR MEDIA EXECUTIV, WHO REMA OVERWHELMGLY WHE AND STRAIGHT AND WEALTHY ENOUGH TO BE REMOVED OM THE ISSU THAT UNRP EVERYDAY LIFE THE REAL WORLD. BUT WHAT’S DOG FOR EVERYONE ELSE?KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK. LRA BRADLEY

Some viewers also bated the character of Leia, wh one viewer sayg was "a sad realy" that she was unlikely to be gay bee the show already featured Ozzie.

Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i've ever seen"my roommate is makg me watch that 90s show and they aren’t lbians???

Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i’ve ever seen— raven (@lbian_fabray) January 20, 2023. A mory of Twter ers cricized the show for even cludg one gay character, claimg Netflix had ma That '90s Show "woke.

IS FEZ GAY NETFLIX’S THAT 90S SHOW: REDD USER WONRS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY!

"One person wrote: "#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the 'gay' kid character ? talk about g a show.. "#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the "gay" kid character ? talk about g a show.. Some viewers may have fotten that That '70s Show actually ma history when me to gay reprentatn on Amerin televisn, as was the first to feature a kiss between two male characters on North Amerin primetime the show's but season, Joseph Gordon-Levt, a meo as Buddy Man "Eric's Buddy, " was a lab partner of Topher Grace's bondg all episo and startg to believe that Eric might also be gay, Buddy cid to kiss his classmate.

While was highly ntroversial, the late ’90s and 2000s saw a rise gay rol on TV shows and movi that troduced dienc to a realy too many were pretendg to ny. Nohels, Gordon Levt and Topher Grace are the first men to a part of a gay scene on screens That ’70s Show, although the potentially screen-breakg LGBTQ story arc was scrapped, and only one character was gay. Some chalk up to oppos attract while others are bummed that Eric’s storyle wasn’t adjted to a more proment portrayal of the gay muny wh Buddy who has a lot mon wh him.