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• ANDREW RIDGS, DREW TARVER GAY, SHIRTLS SCENE THE OTHER TWO
• “THE OTHER TWO” IS ONE OF THE BT SHOWS ABOUT GAY MEN ON TV RIGHT NOW

ANDREW RIDGS, DREW TARVER GAY, SHIRTLS SCENE THE OTHER TWO

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The roommate is played by Andrew Ridgs who 2010 was an off-Broadway play Over the Top where he played a closeted gay man ( the role of his boyiend was Tanner Cohen, who starred the 2008 gay-themed die film Were the World Me). Cary's -worker, Curtis, is also gay. Of urse, the show has more amg gay-oriented stuff gog on than jt the furtive relatnship between Cary and Matt (whose story arc appears to have end after Episo 3).

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“THE OTHER TWO” IS ONE OF THE BT SHOWS ABOUT GAY MEN ON TV RIGHT NOW

[quote]bee gay men e the mcl their face differently than straight menOh really? The gay scen wh him and Cary are hot af. gay.

When your bt iend is love wh you and you're not gay, how far would go for them? We’d been posively drowng gay culture all week, but we were still not prepared for the show’s most recent episo: an almost Shakpearean edy of errors volvg Grdr, “dad/son” upl, and threom that felt like somethg we’d never seen before a mastream TV edy. ”The Other Two — now on HBO Max after a swch om Comedy Central and an extensive filmg lay ed by the panmic — never shied away om gay storyl s first season — as the olr brother to a famo teen pop star (Case Walker), Cary (Drew Tarver) always seemed eply unfortable wh his homosexualy, hookg up wh his “straight” roommate (Andrew Ridgs) and explog a gaggle of Instagays.

Wrg for BuzzFeed News, Manuel Betanurt clared The Other Two “one of the bt shows about gay men on TV right now, ” makg specific reference to an oddly sweet teractn between Cary and a love tert (Daniel K.

E., bottom) this season’s send episo that was released on Thursday, "Pat Connects wh Her Fans, " reach new exploratory pths of gay sexualy. In , Pat (Molly Shannon) hosts an episo of her new talk show which she lavish a $25, 000 check om Shutterstock on a young man named Eddie (Noah Galv) who has recently e out to his anti-gay father, Troy (Tuc Watks).

Pat’s dghter and manager Brooke (Heléne Yorke) has rrectly observed the pair are a uple who are fleecg Pat’s show for money after seeg her reward other young gays for their g-out vios.

He’s probably never even met a gay person, ” Cary tells Js wh an earntns that beli his New York elism. Gabe González, a edian who has hosted shows for the Grdr rival Scff, told me he thought was a “pch-perfect storyle, ” as well as a “funny and apt dictment of how gays ci image life for queer people who don’t live New York or LA.

”“Cary go along wh flatteng the characters to a piable stereotype — young gay men who n't be who they are bee of the ‘Kansas’ of all — even when 's beg unrmed right ont of him, ” González, the -creator, said the show don’t set out to actively explore new parts of gay culture every week, but stead tri to fd ways that the fame of Cary and Brooke’s mother and brother n be ed to teach them somethg about themselv. ’” he said this episo — which was filmed Febary 2020 before productn shut down for a year — is all about Cary tryg to perform a “sanized, PG versn of himself” that he thks might make his late father more fortable wh a gay son. “I nfintly me out of the closet, but still certaly felt like I had to be a certa type of gay so I wasn’t too sry to my parents.

I was nfintly tellg them I was gay and I was proud to be gay, but at the same time I was tryg to be like, but barely, guys! I’m gay, but hontly you’ll hardly even notice! ”The Other Two ftly explor this ia that there is a lim to the gayns wh which straight people are fortable and which some the LGBTQ muny feel pelled to embrace: rabow-saturated rporate culture — like the Big Gay Ice Cream store to which Cary and Js drag the others — sweet g-out vios that play on morng talk shows, or “heteronormative” notns of marriage and children.

This tensn has self bee somethg of a cliché and meme for Very Onle Gays.