Most of 'Whe Lot' season 2 st nomated for an Emmy — but not 'the gays' |

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• MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
• ‘THE WHE LOT’ SEASON FALE: ‘THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME!’ARRIVEDERCITHE STRS-DUCG FALE OF SEASON 2 SAW EVEN MORE CHAOTIC SEXUAL POLICS, THE RISE OF FAN FAVOR MIA AND LUCIA, AND THE SHOCKG INTI OF ALL THOSE AD BODI.FLETCHER PETERSENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED DEC. 12, 2022 12:54AM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 12, 2022 12:09AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTY/HBOWE SHOULD’VE SEEN THE WHE LOT’ ENDG G OM A E AWAY. IT WAS RIGHT ONT OF THE WHOLE TIME! NONE OF THE GUTS WERE EVER GOG TO WALK AWAY HAVG THE BT WEEK OF THEIR LIV (HELL, ONE OF THEM WAS GOG TO END UP A SKET), WHICH LEAV JT TWO PEOPLE WHO DID: MIA (BEATRICE GRANNó) AND LUCIA (SIMONA TABAS), THE TWO HOOKERS LIVG UP AT THE WHE LOT SICILY.WARNG: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE WHE LOT SEASON 2.THOUGH NONE OF THEM END UP AD—MEANG THEY SHOULD TAKE ANOTHER VATN SEASON 3—THE “HAPPILY” MARRIED UPL HAVE A WILD TIME THIS FALE EPISO. WHILE ETHAN (WILL SHARPE) NTU TO QUTN HARPER (AUBREY PLAZA) ABOUT WHETHER SHE CHEATED ON HIM WH CAMERON (THEO JAM), DAPHNE’S (MEGHANN FAHY) TOO BY FACETIMG HER OUT-OF-WEDLOCK CHILD TO NOTICE.THERE’S THAT OLD SAYG, “IGNORANCE IS BLISS.” DAPHNE TAK A STEP FURTHER. “MYSTERY IS BLISS,” SHE TELLS ETHAN ( MORE OR LS WORDS) AFTER HE TELLS HER HE THKS THEIR SPO CHEATED WH EACH OTHER. HARPER HAS NFIRMED HER BRIEF AFFAIR TO ETHAN—SHE SAYS THEY KISSED FOR “TWO SENDS” AND THAT WAS ALL—SO HE TRI TO WARN DAPHNE. IN RPONSE, DAPHNE DO THE MOST LCULATG THG SHE N THK OF: SHE LEADS ETHAN OFF TO A SECLUD, ROMANTIC ISLAND AND PRUMABLY SLEEPS WH HIM. GREAT. GRAND. I WAS NEARLY THROWG TOMATO (SAN MARZANO, OF URSE) AT MY TV. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? IT FIX ETHAN, WHO FALLY HAS SEX WH HARPER JT A FEW HOURS LATER AFTER NYG HER ALL VATN. STEFANO DELIA/HBO OVER TO TANYA (JENNIFER COOLIDGE), WHO IS NOW ANTILLY TRYG TO PE A YACHT FULL OF GAYS WHO ARE TRYG TO MURR HER. (CUE THE ENDLS MEM—IF THERE’S ONE THG WORTH CRICIZG THE WHE LOT FOR, ’S HOW THE L SEEMED PURPOSEFULLY MANUFACTURED FOR TER ENGAGEMENT.) PORTIA (HALEY LU RICHARDSON) ALSO BEGS TO SPECT THAT SHE’S BEEN ABDUCTED, AFTER JACK (LEO WOODALL) WHISKS HER AWAY OVERNIGHT AND KEEPS PROCRASTATG BRGG HER HOME. AFTER SHE DUC THAT HE ALSO MAY HAVE STOLEN HER PHONE, SHE SNEAKS AWAY WH HIS TO LL TANYA.TANYA REVEALS THAT SHE SAW JACK “FUCKG HIS UNCLE,” QUENT (TOM HOLLANR), AND PORTIA TELLS HER WHAT SHE LEARNED OM JACK THE NIGHT BEFORE—THAT QUENT AND THE GAYS MIGHT BE TRYG TO SM HER. TANYA REALIZ THAT HER LIFE IS DANGER, AND THAT SHE HAS TO PE THE MONEY HUNGRY EAKS SOMEHOW. SHE NCLUS THAT QUENT AND HER HBAND GREG (JON GRI) ARE LIKELY WORKG TOGETHER, SCE IF SHE AND GREG DIVORCE, HE ONLY GETS HER MONEY IF SHE’S AD, ACRDG TO THEIR PRENUP.AFTER MOBSTER NICLó BOARDS THE YACHT TO “TAKE HER BACK TO THE HOTEL ON HIS DGHY,” TANYA SPRTS OM DNER AND GRABS HIS SKETCHY BLACK DUFFEL BAG. UNBOXG TIME! THE NTENTS CLU A BLACK ROPE, DUCT TAPE, AND A PISTOL. THEY WERE PLANNG ON KILLG TANYA, WHICH WOULD ED GIVE GREG (AKA QUENT’S BOYTOY “STEVE”) ALL HER MONEY.THE ATHS ARE MAGNIFICENT. JENNIFER COOLIDGE FIR A GUN LIKE NO OTHER HUMAN HAS—EXQUISELY, SHAKG, GEO. THOUGH “THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME” IS STANTLY INIC, I THOUGHT THIS ONE WAS EQUALLY HILAR: “THERE AREN’T ENOUGH PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT OLD BUILDGS,” TANYA SHOUTS, SO NERVO, WHILE QUENT CHATTERS ON ABOUT HOW HE NEEDS MONEY TO PAY FOR HIS TATE. BUT THE GAYS’ ATHS AREN’T BIG ENOUGH. NO, DOWN GO TANYA. WH THE YACHT LTERED WH THE AD BODI OF EVERYONE SHE JT KILLED, SHE TRI TO PE ON NICLó’S DGHY. BUT SHE HS HER HEAD ON THE SI OF THE BOAT WHEN SHE TRI TO JUMP AND DROWNS. WHILE I DID LOVE THE RETURN OF TANYA THIS WAS A WONRFUL SWAN SONG TO OUR BELOVED PEPPA PIG. SWEET, SWEET TANYA. (NOW, GREG STILL GETS THE MONEY, BEE SHE’S AD! UGH!)PORTIA, MEANWHILE, IS DROPPED ON THE SI OF THE ROAD BY AN AIRPORT BY JACK, WHO BE MENACG AND THREATENG WHEN PORTIA TELLS HIM THAT SHE’S ON TO HIM—AND KNOWS ABOUT THE UNCLE-FUCKG. IT TURNS OUT HE DID STEAL HER PHONE. BACK AT THE WHE LOT HOTEL, WHERE OUR DI GRASSO BOYS HAVE ONE FAL MEAL TOGETHER, ALBIE (ADAM DIMAR) HAS MA A AL WH HIS FATHER. IF DOMIC (MICHAEL IMPERLI) PAYS LUCIA, HIS HOOKER GIRLIEND, THE 50,000 ROS SHE SAID SHE NEEDS TO PE HER PIMP,ALBIE WILL TELL HIS MOTHER THAT HIS FATHER HAS SPENT THE WHOLE TRIP MISSG HER, PERHAPS SALVAGG THEIR RELATNSHIP. ALBIE LLS THIS “KARMIC PAYMENT.”WELL, DOMIC ACQUIC. LUCIA SNAGS A FAT PAYCHECK OM CAMERON, WHO FALLY SETTLED HIS BILL FOR THEIR STEAMY NIGHT TOGETHER, AND DOMIC. EVEN THOUGH ALBIE PLEADS WH HER TO VIS LOS ANGEL, SHE SNEAKS OUT OF HIS HOTEL ROOM AND GHOSTS HIM. EVEN IF THEIR NNECTN WAS REAL AND LUCIA HAD FEELGS FOR HIM, HE WAS STILL A MARK AND SHE PLAYED HIM. MEANWHILE, BTIE MIA SECUR A SGG GIG AT THE WHE LOT AFTER SHE AGRE TO SLEEP WH VALENTA (SABRA IMPACCIATORE)—OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, HELP GET HER LAID. STEFANO DELIA/HBO IN THE END, WE GET TWO BRILLIANT SCEN THAT PROVE LOVE IS REAL! WHILE FLYG BACK HOME, ALBIE NS TO NONE OTHER THAN PORTIA AT THE AIRPORT. ON THE VERGE OF A NERVO BREAKDOWN WONRG WHAT HAPPENED TO TANYA (AND WEARG THE MOST HEO SRF AND SUNGLASS), PORTIA ASKS ALBIE FOR HIS PHONE NUMBER. MAYBE TAKE A BEAT, GUYS. THIS WHOLE DATG THG ISN’T REALLY FOR EHER OF YOU. NEVERTHELS, ’S A MASTERFUL WAY TO WRAP THEIR CHAOTIC ARCS FULL OF SMMG AND CE.FALLY, WE GET TO SEE MIA AND LUCIA TRAIPSG THROUGH SICILIAN STREETS, BLISSFUL AS EVER. GO GET SOME DNER, GIRLS. BUY ALL THE CLOTH EVERY SICILIAN BOUTIQUE YOU N FD. YOU’VE EARNED . UNLIKE THE FIRST SEASON OF THE WHE LOT, WE ACTUALLY GET TO END ON SOME RELIEF FOR THE SERVICE WORKERS OF THE WORLD. FAB LOVO/HBO THE FIVE GUTS WE WANT TO SEE SEASON 3TANYA RETURNED FOR SEASON 2 OF THE WHE LOT. SO, STEAD OF PREDICTG WHO’S GOG TO DIE, WE’RE GOG TO PREDICT WHO’S GOG TO HAVE A NEW LIFE THE NEXT SEASON OF THE SHOW.1. DAPHNE: PLEASE, LORD, GIVE MORE MEGHANN FAHY. NOT ONLY DO SHE SERVE AN EMMY, HER STANDOUT PERFORMANCE ECHO THE REVELATN THAT WAS JENNIFER COOLIDGE SEASON 1. BRG HER BACK—MAYBE ON A SEXY PA WH HER SECRET GYM BOYIEND.2. BERT: F. MURRAY ABRAHAM GAVE ANOTHER GREAT PERFORMANCE THE WHE LOT SEASON 2. BRG BACK THE FARTG. BRG BACK THE WEIRD MENTS ABOUT WOMEN. THIS GUY WAS INIC.3. GREG: ONLY SO WE N SEE HIM DIE.4. ALBIE AND PORTIA: LET’S SEE THEM ON THEIR HONEYMOON! I WANT TO SEE THE LTLE WEIRDOS FLIRTG AT A SKI LODGE OR SOMETHG. WHAT’S TWTER GOG TO LOOK LIKE WHOUT THE DISURSE OVER PORTIA’S DOOF OUTFS?5. MIA AND LUCIA: I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. LUCIA SHOULD E HER NEW FORTUNE TO BUY A GETAWAY FOR HERSELF AND MIA. EVEN BETTER: MIA N GET THE WHE LOT IENDS AND FAY DISUNT OM VALENTA. FLETCHER PETERS
• THE WHE LOT SEASON TWO: FANS LEFT UTTER SHOCK BY UNEXPECTED GAY SEX SCENE
• FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
• 'THE GAYS' OF THE WHE LOT DIDN'T GET ANY EMMY NOMATNS, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE DID
• WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
• ARE THE MEN OF THE WHE LOT OKAY?SEASON TWO PROV THEY ALL SUFFER OM THE SAME TERMAL ILLNS: MASCULY.BY TRACY MOORENOVEMBER 22, 2022STEFANO DELIA/HBO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A LOT OF QUTNS ON SEASON TWO OF THE WHE LOT, WHICH TRAS SEASON ONE’S LH HAWAIIAN NCE FOR THE LUXE AND “SICK PALAZZOS” OF SICILY. WHO WILL DIE? HOW MANY WILL DIE? AND WILL , BY CHANCE, BE EVERY MAN ON THE SHOW? BEE SOMETHG IS ROTTEN  MENMARK. SEASON TWO GIV NEW STRAS OF WEALTHY VATN MISERY, BUT ALSO PUTS GHT GENR DYNAMICS UNR THE MICROSPE—LARGELY THE FUMBLG OBLIVNS OF MEN AND THEIR TTY TERACTNS WH THE MISERABLE LADI THEY N’T QUE GEL WH. ALL RICH PEOPLE MAY BE TRAPPED A BETIFUL PRISON OF THEIR OWN MAKG, ACRDG TO CREATOR MIKE WHE, BUT THEIR PERFORMANC OF GENRED EXPECTATNS ARE A NCURRENT SENTENCE. IF THIS SEASON HAS A GRAND SOCLOGIL OBSERVATN WOVEN TO S UAL *RICH PEOPLE ARE SAD–*BRAND 500-THREAD UNT SHEETS, ’S THE EUROPEAN FLAX-LEN DUVET VER LLED MEN ALSO DISAPPOTG AND SAD. AND EVERY MALE CHARACTER HERE IS DIAGNOSABLY SAD ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.“I FEEL SORRY FOR MEN, YOU KNOW,” M DAPHNE (MEGHANN FAHY) TO HARPER (AUBREY PLAZA) EPISO THREE OVER DRKS AND EDIBL NEARBY NOTO, WHERE THEY’VE DCHED HBANDS CAMERON (THEO JAM) AND ETHAN (WILL SHARPE) FOR THE NIGHT. “THEY THK THEY’RE OUT THERE DOG SOMETHG REALLY IMPORTANT, BUT REALLY THEY’RE JT WANRG ALONE.” ALONE WH AN UNFULFILLED BONER. WHERE THE THIRD EPISO REALLY CRYSTALLIZED THIS THEMATIC TTH OF MEN AND WOMEN NEVER QUE RELATG TO EACH OTHER, EPISO FOUR SHOWED  HOW, A PARTICULARLY DREAD-FILLED KALEIDOSPE OF UNEASE FOR EVERY CHARACTER. TAKE GREG (JON GRI), HONEYMOONG WH TANYA (JENNIFER COOLIDGE) AFTER SHE PROCURED EXPENSIVE DOCTORS TO CURE HIS LIFE-THREATENG ILLNS. THEIR TERACTNS HAVE BEEN, TH FAR, LS NNUBIAL BLISS AND MORE OLD HAT. GREG SEEMS PERPETUALLY IRRATED BY TANYA’S CHILDLIKE ASPIRATNS FOR HER ITALIAN VAY (“I WANT TO LOOK JT LIKE MONI VTI!”), AND HE ROUTELY NEGS HER FOOD NSUMPTN AND PLAS ABOUT HIS LSER EARNG POWER. AT ONE POT, WE OVERHEAR HIM SPEAKG REASSURGLY THE BATHROOM TO AN UNKNOWN THIRD PARTY BY PHONE A MANNER THAT SUGGTS TANYA IS BEG SWDLED (THANK GOD FOR PRENUPS!) BEFORE SPLTG FOR A “BS TRIP.” THE DUO IS MARS-VEN DYNAMICS TO AN ALMOST RTOONISH GREE: SHE THKS HE’S GMPY; HE THKS SHE’S CRAZY. WHATEVER GRACE WE FELT TOWARD HIS GOOD-NATURED TOLERANCE OF HER LAST SEASON HAS VANISHED WH HIS BONER’S FAILURE TO LNCH. WHATEVER GOOD-NATURED ENTHIASM WE HAD FOR FUN, HOT MS TANYA FAS WH EACH MANDG PUBLIC EMOTNAL OUTBURST. WH GREG GONE, TANYA FDS A BEVY OF GAY MEN TO MUNE WH WHO AT LEAST SEEM TO APPRECIATE HER CHIS, BONDG WH THEIR RGLEAR QUENT (TOM HOLLANR), WHO SIDL UP TO HER AND GETS HER TO SPILL HER LIFE STORY. FALLY TEND TO, THIS CHATTY RAPPORT GIV TANYA HER FIRST B OF ACTUAL FUN ON THE TRIP, AND SHE SOON OBSERV THAT GAY MEN ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WOMEN N REALLY TST, SCE MOST WOMEN ARE DRIPS, EVEN THOUGH YOU N’T BLAME THEM FOR BEG SO PRSG. THIS MAY BE A TEMPORARY RPE OM STRAIGHT MEN, BUT DO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF TANYA AND GREG? NOT REALLY. STILL, SOMETHG FEELS OFF ABOUT THE NEW BTI, PARTICULARLY WHEN QUENT REHASHG WH RELISH THE TALE OF AN OLD ITALIAN WEALTHY WOMAN ON A NEARBY ISLAND WHO WAS KILLED OFF FOR HER PROPERTY.THEN THERE’S CAMERON, THE OUTRAGEOLY CKY TABLISHMENT TECH BRO SLASH OBLIV NEW MONEY RNATE. HE AND HIS WIFE, DAPHNE, ARE BOTH IRRATGLY BLASé ABOUT THE WORLD, BETTER AT DISCSG IMMACULATE HOTELS THAN CURRENT EVENTS, BUT HIS WOLFY GRS AND PERPETUALLY ENTLED HORNS RELL THE SLEAZE OF PETER GALLAGHER  SEX, LI, AND VIOTAPE. HE NSTANTLY ALPHA-DOGS NEWLY RICH TECH NERD ETHAN, WHO SEEMS UNR THREAT OF UNDUE FLUENCE BY CAMERON’S TOXIC SCHTICK. DAPHNE AND CAMERON’S SAVG GRACE WAS THAT AT LEAST THEY SEEMED TO TLY ENJOY THEIR MONEY, BUT TURNS OUT THAT EVEN THEIR MUTUAL LNS N’T SAVE THEIR RELATNSHIP OM GAME-PLAYG AND WILLFUL IGNORANCE.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDCAMERON CLAR TO ETHAN THAT EVERYONE CHEATS, SO ’S OL, BH. ETHAN PREFERS PORN TO SEX WH HIS WILLG BUT BARBED-WIRE-ATED WIFE, SO WHILE ’S LDABLE THAT ETHAN DON’T SUCCUMB TO THE TEMPTATN CAMERON SWAN DIV RIGHT TO WH SEX WORKERS MIA (BEATRICE GRANNò) AND LUCIA (SIMONA TABAS) ON THEIR BROS NIGHT OUT, DON’T FEEL LIKE A HARD-LE STANCE AGAST . HE’S MALLEABLE AND WEAK-WILLED, AND EPISO FOUR, WE SEE THAT HE’S HAPPY TO KEEP UP THE BRO CAMERON HAS REQUTED ABOUT HIS OWN FILY—A SLIPPERY SLOPE. IF THE SHOW IS BATTLG FOR THE SOULS OF THE NEWLY RICH HARPER AND ETHAN, WHO ARE STANDS-S FOR VIEWERS, AND WHO MT NOW CHOOSE WHETHER TO REMA THEIR TELLECTUAL, POLILLY AWARE LIFE OR JO CAMERON AND DAPHNE OBLIV RICHVILLE, SEEMS HARPER IS THE ONLY ONE DOG ANY OF THE RISTANCE FIGHTG. DAPHNE TIMAT HER VERSN OF TANYA’S THEORY TO HARPER THAT WOMEN N’T REALLY BE TSTED, ASKG HER TO KEEP HER SECRETS AS WELL. HARPER DO PRECISELY WHAT DAPHNE SPECTED SHE WOULD: PROMIS TSTWORTHS, THEN SPILLS TO ETHAN AS SOON AS SHE’S BACK AT THE RORT. STILL, HIS REFAL TO FS UP SENDS HER TO A FUNK, AND WE SEE HER AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, PERHAPS NTEMPLATG PE (OR ATH).AND THEN THERE’S THE ITALIAN AMERIN FAY OF BERT (F. MURRAY ABRAHAM), DOMIC (MICHAEL IMPERLI), AND ALBIE (ADAM DIMAR), WHO ARE A KD OF MULTIGENERATNAL K BLOT FOR OUR NVERSATNS ABOUT MEN TODAY. GRANDPA BERT BOOMER CROP DTS HIS WAY THROUGH AN OLD-SCHOOL, EVO-PSYCH POWERPOT SLI FOR EXCG HORNY MALE BEHAVR: MEN ARE BLOGILLY HARDWIRED TO BONE, AN IMMUTABLE LAW THAT TIME NOR THE WOKE TEACHGS OF STANFORD N ALTER, AND THAT IS THAT. HIS GEN X SON, DOMIC, WHO IS THE DOGHOE FOR CHEATG ON HIS WIFE (PLAYED BY LRA DERN ONLY VOICE BY PHONE) CLAIMS TO BE A FEMIST WHO TOTALLY RPECTS WOMEN, YET LEANS ON HIS OWN PURPORTED SEX ADDICTN TO JTIFY HIS ABILY TO RIST TEMPTATN. HE GUILTS HIS SON, ALBIE, A GEN Z GENTLE SNOWFLAKE, TO FENDG HIM WH HIS MOTHER, WHICH ALBIE STEADFASTLY REF TO DO. AND ABOUT ALBIE: HE SEEMS LIKE THE ONLY CENT, PRCIPLED MAN THE BUNCH (SWEET OR SECRET SOFTBOY? THAT’S TBD!), BUT HIS LACK OF ASSERTIVENS AND NSTANT TENDG TO WOMEN’S FEELGS PROV NOTHG KILLS EROTICISM LIKE TALKG TO ATH. HIS WHERG CRIQU OF HIS CHVISTIC GRANDFATHER AND REPUGNANT FATHER’S FAILGS, AS WELL AS THE PATRIARCHY AS A WHOLE, ARE SALIENT. AND YET, HE TOO IS TOO WEAK-WILLED TO BE HOT. ARE THE WOMEN’S CHOIC TODAY? HIS TIMID ADVANC ON PORTIA (HALEY LU RICHARDSON), TANYA’S LONG-SUFFERG ASSISTANT, ARE PAFULLY AWKWARD. THE WHE LOT IS OBSERVG A PARTICULARLY MORN PROBLEM EVERYONE HAND WRGS ABOUT THE DISURSE. ALBIE IS EVERYTHG WE CLAIM TO WANT MEN TODAY—SENSIVE, RPECTFUL, FEMIST—SO WHY DON’T SHE WANT TO FUCK HIM? INSTEAD, SHE DREAMS OF GETTG TOSSED AROUND BY AN ITALIAN BEEFKE WHO WON’T BE ASKG PERMISSN FOR ANYTHG. IN EPISO FOUR, SHE FALLY GETS HER WISH WH A TATTED-UP ENGLISH FUCKBOY NAMED JACK (LEO WOODALL). THAT SENDS ALBIE TO THE ARMS (OR MOUTH, AS WERE) OF LUCIA, WHOM HE IS SEEMGLY UNAWARE IS A SEX WORKER (WHICH HIS FATHER WATCH UNFOLD WH HORROR). IS ALBIE TOO OBLIV TO REALLY UNRSTAND WOMEN? OR IS HE, ULTIMATELY, JT LIKE HIS FATHER, PERFECTLY NTENT TO OUTSOURCE A BLOWJOB NOW AND THEN WHILE CLAIMG TO RE ABOUT WOMEN’S FEELGS? MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDIN MANY WAYS, ONLY LUCIA AND MIA SEEM TO LIVE WHOUT ILLNS THE SHOW, TRADG SEX FOR MONEY TO SURVIVE AND PERFORMG WHATEVER ROL THEY MT TO GET BY. THE WHE LOT SHOWS THE HYPOCRISY OF THEIR TREATMENT BY STAFF AND GUTS, WHO CERTALY KNOW HOW EFUL THEIR SERVIC ARE. BUT WHEN MIA CIS TO FALLY BOFF THE LOUNGE PIANO PLAYER EXCHANGE FOR ADVANCG HER REER, ’S THE HARNED LUCIA WHO SUDNLY SEEMS PROTECTIVE OF HER, HOPG SHE DON’T HAVE TO FORFE WHAT’S LEFT OF HER NOCENCE TO GET BY THIS WORLD. EVEN THEIR SOLUTN FOR SURVIVAL AS WOMEN IS NOT MUCH OF ONE, LONG-TERM. BUT AT LEAST THEY ARE LOYAL TO EACH OTHER, SOMETHG NO OTHER WOMEN ON THE SHOW N CLAIM.THE WHE LOT’S FOC HERE FEELS MANY WAYS LIKE THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL OUR NVERSATNS ABOUT MEN THE LAST HANDFUL OF YEARS. IT’S NOT THAT MEN HAVEN’T HEARD THE LL FOR THEIR HEADS. IT’S THAT FOR ALL THEIR GRE OF MEA CULPA-G, THEY STILL N’T SEEM TO QUE GET RIGHT, AND EHER UNTER WH OUTRIGHT RISTANCE OR ANTIC OVERRRECTN. MAYBE THAT’S A START. BUT IF ANYTHG, HAS LEFT MEN AND WOMEN THE SAME BOAT AS ALWAYS, NO CLOSER TO UNRSTANDG EACH OTHER, AND STILL CIRCLG EACH OTHER BATTLE GEAR. MUCH LIKE THEIR BETIFUL MISERY, ’S YET ANOTHER PROBLEM MONEY N’T SOLVE.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)TRACY MOORE
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MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’

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. 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.

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.

‘THE WHE LOT’ SEASON FALE: ‘THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME!’ARRIVEDERCITHE STRS-DUCG FALE OF SEASON 2 SAW EVEN MORE CHAOTIC SEXUAL POLICS, THE RISE OF FAN FAVOR MIA AND LUCIA, AND THE SHOCKG INTI OF ALL THOSE AD BODI.FLETCHER PETERSENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED DEC. 12, 2022 12:54AM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 12, 2022 12:09AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTY/HBOWE SHOULD’VE SEEN THE WHE LOT’ ENDG G OM A E AWAY. IT WAS RIGHT ONT OF THE WHOLE TIME! NONE OF THE GUTS WERE EVER GOG TO WALK AWAY HAVG THE BT WEEK OF THEIR LIV (HELL, ONE OF THEM WAS GOG TO END UP A SKET), WHICH LEAV JT TWO PEOPLE WHO DID: MIA (BEATRICE GRANNó) AND LUCIA (SIMONA TABAS), THE TWO HOOKERS LIVG UP AT THE WHE LOT SICILY.WARNG: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE WHE LOT SEASON 2.THOUGH NONE OF THEM END UP AD—MEANG THEY SHOULD TAKE ANOTHER VATN SEASON 3—THE “HAPPILY” MARRIED UPL HAVE A WILD TIME THIS FALE EPISO. WHILE ETHAN (WILL SHARPE) NTU TO QUTN HARPER (AUBREY PLAZA) ABOUT WHETHER SHE CHEATED ON HIM WH CAMERON (THEO JAM), DAPHNE’S (MEGHANN FAHY) TOO BY FACETIMG HER OUT-OF-WEDLOCK CHILD TO NOTICE.THERE’S THAT OLD SAYG, “IGNORANCE IS BLISS.” DAPHNE TAK A STEP FURTHER. “MYSTERY IS BLISS,” SHE TELLS ETHAN ( MORE OR LS WORDS) AFTER HE TELLS HER HE THKS THEIR SPO CHEATED WH EACH OTHER. HARPER HAS NFIRMED HER BRIEF AFFAIR TO ETHAN—SHE SAYS THEY KISSED FOR “TWO SENDS” AND THAT WAS ALL—SO HE TRI TO WARN DAPHNE. IN RPONSE, DAPHNE DO THE MOST LCULATG THG SHE N THK OF: SHE LEADS ETHAN OFF TO A SECLUD, ROMANTIC ISLAND AND PRUMABLY SLEEPS WH HIM. GREAT. GRAND. I WAS NEARLY THROWG TOMATO (SAN MARZANO, OF URSE) AT MY TV. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? IT FIX ETHAN, WHO FALLY HAS SEX WH HARPER JT A FEW HOURS LATER AFTER NYG HER ALL VATN. STEFANO DELIA/HBO OVER TO TANYA (JENNIFER COOLIDGE), WHO IS NOW ANTILLY TRYG TO PE A YACHT FULL OF GAYS WHO ARE TRYG TO MURR HER. (CUE THE ENDLS MEM—IF THERE’S ONE THG WORTH CRICIZG THE WHE LOT FOR, ’S HOW THE L SEEMED PURPOSEFULLY MANUFACTURED FOR TER ENGAGEMENT.) PORTIA (HALEY LU RICHARDSON) ALSO BEGS TO SPECT THAT SHE’S BEEN ABDUCTED, AFTER JACK (LEO WOODALL) WHISKS HER AWAY OVERNIGHT AND KEEPS PROCRASTATG BRGG HER HOME. AFTER SHE DUC THAT HE ALSO MAY HAVE STOLEN HER PHONE, SHE SNEAKS AWAY WH HIS TO LL TANYA.TANYA REVEALS THAT SHE SAW JACK “FUCKG HIS UNCLE,” QUENT (TOM HOLLANR), AND PORTIA TELLS HER WHAT SHE LEARNED OM JACK THE NIGHT BEFORE—THAT QUENT AND THE GAYS MIGHT BE TRYG TO SM HER. TANYA REALIZ THAT HER LIFE IS DANGER, AND THAT SHE HAS TO PE THE MONEY HUNGRY EAKS SOMEHOW. SHE NCLUS THAT QUENT AND HER HBAND GREG (JON GRI) ARE LIKELY WORKG TOGETHER, SCE IF SHE AND GREG DIVORCE, HE ONLY GETS HER MONEY IF SHE’S AD, ACRDG TO THEIR PRENUP.AFTER MOBSTER NICLó BOARDS THE YACHT TO “TAKE HER BACK TO THE HOTEL ON HIS DGHY,” TANYA SPRTS OM DNER AND GRABS HIS SKETCHY BLACK DUFFEL BAG. UNBOXG TIME! THE NTENTS CLU A BLACK ROPE, DUCT TAPE, AND A PISTOL. THEY WERE PLANNG ON KILLG TANYA, WHICH WOULD ED GIVE GREG (AKA QUENT’S BOYTOY “STEVE”) ALL HER MONEY.THE ATHS ARE MAGNIFICENT. JENNIFER COOLIDGE FIR A GUN LIKE NO OTHER HUMAN HAS—EXQUISELY, SHAKG, GEO. THOUGH “THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME” IS STANTLY INIC, I THOUGHT THIS ONE WAS EQUALLY HILAR: “THERE AREN’T ENOUGH PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT OLD BUILDGS,” TANYA SHOUTS, SO NERVO, WHILE QUENT CHATTERS ON ABOUT HOW HE NEEDS MONEY TO PAY FOR HIS TATE. BUT THE GAYS’ ATHS AREN’T BIG ENOUGH. NO, DOWN GO TANYA. WH THE YACHT LTERED WH THE AD BODI OF EVERYONE SHE JT KILLED, SHE TRI TO PE ON NICLó’S DGHY. BUT SHE HS HER HEAD ON THE SI OF THE BOAT WHEN SHE TRI TO JUMP AND DROWNS. WHILE I DID LOVE THE RETURN OF TANYA THIS WAS A WONRFUL SWAN SONG TO OUR BELOVED PEPPA PIG. SWEET, SWEET TANYA. (NOW, GREG STILL GETS THE MONEY, BEE SHE’S AD! UGH!)PORTIA, MEANWHILE, IS DROPPED ON THE SI OF THE ROAD BY AN AIRPORT BY JACK, WHO BE MENACG AND THREATENG WHEN PORTIA TELLS HIM THAT SHE’S ON TO HIM—AND KNOWS ABOUT THE UNCLE-FUCKG. IT TURNS OUT HE DID STEAL HER PHONE. BACK AT THE WHE LOT HOTEL, WHERE OUR DI GRASSO BOYS HAVE ONE FAL MEAL TOGETHER, ALBIE (ADAM DIMAR) HAS MA A AL WH HIS FATHER. IF DOMIC (MICHAEL IMPERLI) PAYS LUCIA, HIS HOOKER GIRLIEND, THE 50,000 ROS SHE SAID SHE NEEDS TO PE HER PIMP,ALBIE WILL TELL HIS MOTHER THAT HIS FATHER HAS SPENT THE WHOLE TRIP MISSG HER, PERHAPS SALVAGG THEIR RELATNSHIP. ALBIE LLS THIS “KARMIC PAYMENT.”WELL, DOMIC ACQUIC. LUCIA SNAGS A FAT PAYCHECK OM CAMERON, WHO FALLY SETTLED HIS BILL FOR THEIR STEAMY NIGHT TOGETHER, AND DOMIC. EVEN THOUGH ALBIE PLEADS WH HER TO VIS LOS ANGEL, SHE SNEAKS OUT OF HIS HOTEL ROOM AND GHOSTS HIM. EVEN IF THEIR NNECTN WAS REAL AND LUCIA HAD FEELGS FOR HIM, HE WAS STILL A MARK AND SHE PLAYED HIM. MEANWHILE, BTIE MIA SECUR A SGG GIG AT THE WHE LOT AFTER SHE AGRE TO SLEEP WH VALENTA (SABRA IMPACCIATORE)—OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, HELP GET HER LAID. STEFANO DELIA/HBO IN THE END, WE GET TWO BRILLIANT SCEN THAT PROVE LOVE IS REAL! WHILE FLYG BACK HOME, ALBIE NS TO NONE OTHER THAN PORTIA AT THE AIRPORT. ON THE VERGE OF A NERVO BREAKDOWN WONRG WHAT HAPPENED TO TANYA (AND WEARG THE MOST HEO SRF AND SUNGLASS), PORTIA ASKS ALBIE FOR HIS PHONE NUMBER. MAYBE TAKE A BEAT, GUYS. THIS WHOLE DATG THG ISN’T REALLY FOR EHER OF YOU. NEVERTHELS, ’S A MASTERFUL WAY TO WRAP THEIR CHAOTIC ARCS FULL OF SMMG AND CE.FALLY, WE GET TO SEE MIA AND LUCIA TRAIPSG THROUGH SICILIAN STREETS, BLISSFUL AS EVER. GO GET SOME DNER, GIRLS. BUY ALL THE CLOTH EVERY SICILIAN BOUTIQUE YOU N FD. YOU’VE EARNED . UNLIKE THE FIRST SEASON OF THE WHE LOT, WE ACTUALLY GET TO END ON SOME RELIEF FOR THE SERVICE WORKERS OF THE WORLD. FAB LOVO/HBO THE FIVE GUTS WE WANT TO SEE SEASON 3TANYA RETURNED FOR SEASON 2 OF THE WHE LOT. SO, STEAD OF PREDICTG WHO’S GOG TO DIE, WE’RE GOG TO PREDICT WHO’S GOG TO HAVE A NEW LIFE THE NEXT SEASON OF THE SHOW.1. DAPHNE: PLEASE, LORD, GIVE MORE MEGHANN FAHY. NOT ONLY DO SHE SERVE AN EMMY, HER STANDOUT PERFORMANCE ECHO THE REVELATN THAT WAS JENNIFER COOLIDGE SEASON 1. BRG HER BACK—MAYBE ON A SEXY PA WH HER SECRET GYM BOYIEND.2. BERT: F. MURRAY ABRAHAM GAVE ANOTHER GREAT PERFORMANCE THE WHE LOT SEASON 2. BRG BACK THE FARTG. BRG BACK THE WEIRD MENTS ABOUT WOMEN. THIS GUY WAS INIC.3. GREG: ONLY SO WE N SEE HIM DIE.4. ALBIE AND PORTIA: LET’S SEE THEM ON THEIR HONEYMOON! I WANT TO SEE THE LTLE WEIRDOS FLIRTG AT A SKI LODGE OR SOMETHG. WHAT’S TWTER GOG TO LOOK LIKE WHOUT THE DISURSE OVER PORTIA’S DOOF OUTFS?5. MIA AND LUCIA: I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. LUCIA SHOULD E HER NEW FORTUNE TO BUY A GETAWAY FOR HERSELF AND MIA. EVEN BETTER: MIA N GET THE WHE LOT IENDS AND FAY DISUNT OM VALENTA. FLETCHER PETERS

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.

THE WHE LOT SEASON TWO: FANS LEFT UTTER SHOCK BY UNEXPECTED GAY SEX SCENE

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. Edor's note: this post ntas major spoilers for the season two fale of HBO's The Whe Lot."The gays, they're tryg to murr me."For many s Hollywood, characters were queer-d as a tool to highlight that they were evil, dangero, mean, and/or villao. 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 archetyp.In The Whe Lot season two's Quent (Tom Hollanr) and his gaggle of rich, olr European gays.

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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 wealth.No, 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 sikicks.We do need Fire Island, Bros, Heartstopper, and LGBTQ-led holiday movi om Hallmark as reprentatn. 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 gay.When Tanya asked, "Do you know the gays?" to the non-English-speakg yacht pta, there was some poetry there.

She didn't know those gays, after all, and neher did the dience. We hope more movi and TV shows give that full breadth of gay reprentatn, om the bt people the world to some of the absolute worst -- jt like our straight unterparts.All episos of The Whe Lot season two are now available on HBO and HBO Max.RELATED | The Are the LGBTQ+ 2023 Goln Globe Nome We're Rootg For.

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And as expected, the gays are livg. 1670209079The agily, toxicy, and nudy of men have been recurrg them the send season of The Whe Lot, which means that the girls, gays, and theys had been eagerly wag for a full-ontal scene to happen at one pot or another. Now, here many viewers assumed that somethg gay was bound to happen between Cameron (Theo Jam) and Ethan (Will Sharpe), that no longer seems to be the se.

Stefano Delia/HBO Over to Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), who is now antilly tryg to pe a yacht full of gays who are tryg to murr her. After she duc that he also may have stolen her phone, she sneaks away wh his to ll reveals that she saw Jack “fuckg his uncle, ” Quent (Tom Hollanr), and Portia tells her what she learned om Jack the night before—that Quent and the gays might be tryg to sm her.

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Though “the gays, they’re tryg to murr me” is stantly inic, I thought this one was equally hilar: “There aren’t enough people out there who are worried about old buildgs, ” Tanya shouts, so nervo, while Quent chatters on about how he needs money to pay for his the gays’ aths aren’t big enough. 'My jaw is on the floor': The Whe Lot viewers are left STUNNED by 'ctuo' gay sex scene between two 'fay members' VERY graphic cliffhanger endg of fifth episoWARNING: CONTAINS SEASON TWO SPOILERS In the fifth episo of season two, Jennifer Coolidge's character stumbl upon two other characters havg sexThe illic tryst has ed fans to fear that character has untentnally gotten herself ught up wh smmers The send season of the h HBO seri is set at a Whe Lot rort Sicily Published: 17:11 BST, 28 November 2022 | Updated: 18:19 BST, 28 November 2022. 'Meanwhile, wrer Whe opened up about his cisn to clu such scen the drama seri as he explaed: 'There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga.

'The Whe Lot' Gay Sex Scene Explaed by Mike Whe - Variety. (Photo: Courty HBO/Warner Media)Warng: This story ntas the wake of the shockg, juicy Whe Lot fale on Sunday, social media has been flood wh great mem, mostly featurg the inic Jennifer social media has not been flood wh, however, is outcry about the show’s e of a variety of age-old gay trop — om the evil queen and the sad/psycho lbian to the “bury your gays” trope, aka the offg of gay characters, the end.

They’ve also mourned Tanya and have excedly looked forward to another season, hopefully wh more Portia outfs to lgh though such well-worn LGBTQ plot pots have riled crics the very recent past — cludg wh Killg Eve and Hoe of the Dragon, both lled out for the “bury your gays” trope — barely anyone seemed triggered by Whe Lot.

ARE THE MEN OF THE WHE LOT OKAY?SEASON TWO PROV THEY ALL SUFFER OM THE SAME TERMAL ILLNS: MASCULY.BY TRACY MOORENOVEMBER 22, 2022STEFANO DELIA/HBO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A LOT OF QUTNS ON SEASON TWO OF THE WHE LOT, WHICH TRAS SEASON ONE’S LH HAWAIIAN NCE FOR THE LUXE AND “SICK PALAZZOS” OF SICILY. WHO WILL DIE? HOW MANY WILL DIE? AND WILL , BY CHANCE, BE EVERY MAN ON THE SHOW? BEE SOMETHG IS ROTTEN  MENMARK. SEASON TWO GIV NEW STRAS OF WEALTHY VATN MISERY, BUT ALSO PUTS GHT GENR DYNAMICS UNR THE MICROSPE—LARGELY THE FUMBLG OBLIVNS OF MEN AND THEIR TTY TERACTNS WH THE MISERABLE LADI THEY N’T QUE GEL WH. ALL RICH PEOPLE MAY BE TRAPPED A BETIFUL PRISON OF THEIR OWN MAKG, ACRDG TO CREATOR MIKE WHE, BUT THEIR PERFORMANC OF GENRED EXPECTATNS ARE A NCURRENT SENTENCE. IF THIS SEASON HAS A GRAND SOCLOGIL OBSERVATN WOVEN TO S UAL *RICH PEOPLE ARE SAD–*BRAND 500-THREAD UNT SHEETS, ’S THE EUROPEAN FLAX-LEN DUVET VER LLED MEN ALSO DISAPPOTG AND SAD. AND EVERY MALE CHARACTER HERE IS DIAGNOSABLY SAD ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.“I FEEL SORRY FOR MEN, YOU KNOW,” M DAPHNE (MEGHANN FAHY) TO HARPER (AUBREY PLAZA) EPISO THREE OVER DRKS AND EDIBL NEARBY NOTO, WHERE THEY’VE DCHED HBANDS CAMERON (THEO JAM) AND ETHAN (WILL SHARPE) FOR THE NIGHT. “THEY THK THEY’RE OUT THERE DOG SOMETHG REALLY IMPORTANT, BUT REALLY THEY’RE JT WANRG ALONE.” ALONE WH AN UNFULFILLED BONER. WHERE THE THIRD EPISO REALLY CRYSTALLIZED THIS THEMATIC TTH OF MEN AND WOMEN NEVER QUE RELATG TO EACH OTHER, EPISO FOUR SHOWED  HOW, A PARTICULARLY DREAD-FILLED KALEIDOSPE OF UNEASE FOR EVERY CHARACTER. TAKE GREG (JON GRI), HONEYMOONG WH TANYA (JENNIFER COOLIDGE) AFTER SHE PROCURED EXPENSIVE DOCTORS TO CURE HIS LIFE-THREATENG ILLNS. THEIR TERACTNS HAVE BEEN, TH FAR, LS NNUBIAL BLISS AND MORE OLD HAT. GREG SEEMS PERPETUALLY IRRATED BY TANYA’S CHILDLIKE ASPIRATNS FOR HER ITALIAN VAY (“I WANT TO LOOK JT LIKE MONI VTI!”), AND HE ROUTELY NEGS HER FOOD NSUMPTN AND PLAS ABOUT HIS LSER EARNG POWER. AT ONE POT, WE OVERHEAR HIM SPEAKG REASSURGLY THE BATHROOM TO AN UNKNOWN THIRD PARTY BY PHONE A MANNER THAT SUGGTS TANYA IS BEG SWDLED (THANK GOD FOR PRENUPS!) BEFORE SPLTG FOR A “BS TRIP.” THE DUO IS MARS-VEN DYNAMICS TO AN ALMOST RTOONISH GREE: SHE THKS HE’S GMPY; HE THKS SHE’S CRAZY. WHATEVER GRACE WE FELT TOWARD HIS GOOD-NATURED TOLERANCE OF HER LAST SEASON HAS VANISHED WH HIS BONER’S FAILURE TO LNCH. WHATEVER GOOD-NATURED ENTHIASM WE HAD FOR FUN, HOT MS TANYA FAS WH EACH MANDG PUBLIC EMOTNAL OUTBURST. WH GREG GONE, TANYA FDS A BEVY OF GAY MEN TO MUNE WH WHO AT LEAST SEEM TO APPRECIATE HER CHIS, BONDG WH THEIR RGLEAR QUENT (TOM HOLLANR), WHO SIDL UP TO HER AND GETS HER TO SPILL HER LIFE STORY. FALLY TEND TO, THIS CHATTY RAPPORT GIV TANYA HER FIRST B OF ACTUAL FUN ON THE TRIP, AND SHE SOON OBSERV THAT GAY MEN ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WOMEN N REALLY TST, SCE MOST WOMEN ARE DRIPS, EVEN THOUGH YOU N’T BLAME THEM FOR BEG SO PRSG. THIS MAY BE A TEMPORARY RPE OM STRAIGHT MEN, BUT DO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF TANYA AND GREG? NOT REALLY. STILL, SOMETHG FEELS OFF ABOUT THE NEW BTI, PARTICULARLY WHEN QUENT REHASHG WH RELISH THE TALE OF AN OLD ITALIAN WEALTHY WOMAN ON A NEARBY ISLAND WHO WAS KILLED OFF FOR HER PROPERTY.THEN THERE’S CAMERON, THE OUTRAGEOLY CKY TABLISHMENT TECH BRO SLASH OBLIV NEW MONEY RNATE. HE AND HIS WIFE, DAPHNE, ARE BOTH IRRATGLY BLASé ABOUT THE WORLD, BETTER AT DISCSG IMMACULATE HOTELS THAN CURRENT EVENTS, BUT HIS WOLFY GRS AND PERPETUALLY ENTLED HORNS RELL THE SLEAZE OF PETER GALLAGHER  SEX, LI, AND VIOTAPE. HE NSTANTLY ALPHA-DOGS NEWLY RICH TECH NERD ETHAN, WHO SEEMS UNR THREAT OF UNDUE FLUENCE BY CAMERON’S TOXIC SCHTICK. DAPHNE AND CAMERON’S SAVG GRACE WAS THAT AT LEAST THEY SEEMED TO TLY ENJOY THEIR MONEY, BUT TURNS OUT THAT EVEN THEIR MUTUAL LNS N’T SAVE THEIR RELATNSHIP OM GAME-PLAYG AND WILLFUL IGNORANCE.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDCAMERON CLAR TO ETHAN THAT EVERYONE CHEATS, SO ’S OL, BH. ETHAN PREFERS PORN TO SEX WH HIS WILLG BUT BARBED-WIRE-ATED WIFE, SO WHILE ’S LDABLE THAT ETHAN DON’T SUCCUMB TO THE TEMPTATN CAMERON SWAN DIV RIGHT TO WH SEX WORKERS MIA (BEATRICE GRANNò) AND LUCIA (SIMONA TABAS) ON THEIR BROS NIGHT OUT, DON’T FEEL LIKE A HARD-LE STANCE AGAST . HE’S MALLEABLE AND WEAK-WILLED, AND EPISO FOUR, WE SEE THAT HE’S HAPPY TO KEEP UP THE BRO CAMERON HAS REQUTED ABOUT HIS OWN FILY—A SLIPPERY SLOPE. IF THE SHOW IS BATTLG FOR THE SOULS OF THE NEWLY RICH HARPER AND ETHAN, WHO ARE STANDS-S FOR VIEWERS, AND WHO MT NOW CHOOSE WHETHER TO REMA THEIR TELLECTUAL, POLILLY AWARE LIFE OR JO CAMERON AND DAPHNE OBLIV RICHVILLE, SEEMS HARPER IS THE ONLY ONE DOG ANY OF THE RISTANCE FIGHTG. DAPHNE TIMAT HER VERSN OF TANYA’S THEORY TO HARPER THAT WOMEN N’T REALLY BE TSTED, ASKG HER TO KEEP HER SECRETS AS WELL. HARPER DO PRECISELY WHAT DAPHNE SPECTED SHE WOULD: PROMIS TSTWORTHS, THEN SPILLS TO ETHAN AS SOON AS SHE’S BACK AT THE RORT. STILL, HIS REFAL TO FS UP SENDS HER TO A FUNK, AND WE SEE HER AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, PERHAPS NTEMPLATG PE (OR ATH).AND THEN THERE’S THE ITALIAN AMERIN FAY OF BERT (F. MURRAY ABRAHAM), DOMIC (MICHAEL IMPERLI), AND ALBIE (ADAM DIMAR), WHO ARE A KD OF MULTIGENERATNAL K BLOT FOR OUR NVERSATNS ABOUT MEN TODAY. GRANDPA BERT BOOMER CROP DTS HIS WAY THROUGH AN OLD-SCHOOL, EVO-PSYCH POWERPOT SLI FOR EXCG HORNY MALE BEHAVR: MEN ARE BLOGILLY HARDWIRED TO BONE, AN IMMUTABLE LAW THAT TIME NOR THE WOKE TEACHGS OF STANFORD N ALTER, AND THAT IS THAT. HIS GEN X SON, DOMIC, WHO IS THE DOGHOE FOR CHEATG ON HIS WIFE (PLAYED BY LRA DERN ONLY VOICE BY PHONE) CLAIMS TO BE A FEMIST WHO TOTALLY RPECTS WOMEN, YET LEANS ON HIS OWN PURPORTED SEX ADDICTN TO JTIFY HIS ABILY TO RIST TEMPTATN. HE GUILTS HIS SON, ALBIE, A GEN Z GENTLE SNOWFLAKE, TO FENDG HIM WH HIS MOTHER, WHICH ALBIE STEADFASTLY REF TO DO. AND ABOUT ALBIE: HE SEEMS LIKE THE ONLY CENT, PRCIPLED MAN THE BUNCH (SWEET OR SECRET SOFTBOY? THAT’S TBD!), BUT HIS LACK OF ASSERTIVENS AND NSTANT TENDG TO WOMEN’S FEELGS PROV NOTHG KILLS EROTICISM LIKE TALKG TO ATH. HIS WHERG CRIQU OF HIS CHVISTIC GRANDFATHER AND REPUGNANT FATHER’S FAILGS, AS WELL AS THE PATRIARCHY AS A WHOLE, ARE SALIENT. AND YET, HE TOO IS TOO WEAK-WILLED TO BE HOT. ARE THE WOMEN’S CHOIC TODAY? HIS TIMID ADVANC ON PORTIA (HALEY LU RICHARDSON), TANYA’S LONG-SUFFERG ASSISTANT, ARE PAFULLY AWKWARD. THE WHE LOT IS OBSERVG A PARTICULARLY MORN PROBLEM EVERYONE HAND WRGS ABOUT THE DISURSE. ALBIE IS EVERYTHG WE CLAIM TO WANT MEN TODAY—SENSIVE, RPECTFUL, FEMIST—SO WHY DON’T SHE WANT TO FUCK HIM? INSTEAD, SHE DREAMS OF GETTG TOSSED AROUND BY AN ITALIAN BEEFKE WHO WON’T BE ASKG PERMISSN FOR ANYTHG. IN EPISO FOUR, SHE FALLY GETS HER WISH WH A TATTED-UP ENGLISH FUCKBOY NAMED JACK (LEO WOODALL). THAT SENDS ALBIE TO THE ARMS (OR MOUTH, AS WERE) OF LUCIA, WHOM HE IS SEEMGLY UNAWARE IS A SEX WORKER (WHICH HIS FATHER WATCH UNFOLD WH HORROR). IS ALBIE TOO OBLIV TO REALLY UNRSTAND WOMEN? OR IS HE, ULTIMATELY, JT LIKE HIS FATHER, PERFECTLY NTENT TO OUTSOURCE A BLOWJOB NOW AND THEN WHILE CLAIMG TO RE ABOUT WOMEN’S FEELGS? MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDIN MANY WAYS, ONLY LUCIA AND MIA SEEM TO LIVE WHOUT ILLNS THE SHOW, TRADG SEX FOR MONEY TO SURVIVE AND PERFORMG WHATEVER ROL THEY MT TO GET BY. THE WHE LOT SHOWS THE HYPOCRISY OF THEIR TREATMENT BY STAFF AND GUTS, WHO CERTALY KNOW HOW EFUL THEIR SERVIC ARE. BUT WHEN MIA CIS TO FALLY BOFF THE LOUNGE PIANO PLAYER EXCHANGE FOR ADVANCG HER REER, ’S THE HARNED LUCIA WHO SUDNLY SEEMS PROTECTIVE OF HER, HOPG SHE DON’T HAVE TO FORFE WHAT’S LEFT OF HER NOCENCE TO GET BY THIS WORLD. EVEN THEIR SOLUTN FOR SURVIVAL AS WOMEN IS NOT MUCH OF ONE, LONG-TERM. BUT AT LEAST THEY ARE LOYAL TO EACH OTHER, SOMETHG NO OTHER WOMEN ON THE SHOW N CLAIM.THE WHE LOT’S FOC HERE FEELS MANY WAYS LIKE THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL OUR NVERSATNS ABOUT MEN THE LAST HANDFUL OF YEARS. IT’S NOT THAT MEN HAVEN’T HEARD THE LL FOR THEIR HEADS. IT’S THAT FOR ALL THEIR GRE OF MEA CULPA-G, THEY STILL N’T SEEM TO QUE GET RIGHT, AND EHER UNTER WH OUTRIGHT RISTANCE OR ANTIC OVERRRECTN. MAYBE THAT’S A START. BUT IF ANYTHG, HAS LEFT MEN AND WOMEN THE SAME BOAT AS ALWAYS, NO CLOSER TO UNRSTANDG EACH OTHER, AND STILL CIRCLG EACH OTHER BATTLE GEAR. MUCH LIKE THEIR BETIFUL MISERY, ’S YET ANOTHER PROBLEM MONEY N’T SOLVE.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)TRACY MOORE

Perhaps ’s bee they were prepped by Season 1’s fale, which saw Armond (Murray Bartlett), as the “praved gay, ” also killed off, promptg jt the slightt b of outcry on the Redd thread lled “a cliché trope that needs to die. Over on Twter, “brown queer artist/activist” and filmmaker Leo Herrera ved his bed 35, 000-pl followers to “talk about the e of gay trop” on the seri recently, gettg not much tractn.

”Further, he says, “I don’t want to be the ‘angry brown guy’ … but somethg we need to be aware of is that some of the gay whe show-nners may believe we are past certa stereotyp or trop — which brgs up issu of race and privilege. (Photo: Courty HBO/Warner Media)On Facebook, a few of this wrer’s acquatanc sound off, wh one llg Whe a “lazy wrer, ” addg, “’s gross to portray gay men as predators, addicts, transgrsive and dirty before killg them.

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It’s typil old textbook Hollywood to kill off the morally rpt gay characters, if you know your cema history … yet BOTH SEASONS of Whe Lot rely on the tired old trope. ”Over on a Whe Lot Redd thread, meanwhile, one viewer wonred, “What gay men f***ed wh Mike Whe for him to always make them tragic, vic, and stereotypil?

” That prompted a few to agree, cludg one who noted, “The thg is gay villas is actually a thg … We still want reprentatn so of urse ’s a double-edged sword and impossible to please the entire dience.

First, some background on gay tropGLAAD lls gay trop “harmful and tired, ” and the recent exampl have helped refuel old anger about how LGBTQ characters are so often killed off TV dramas — a tradn actually stemmg om the 1934-1968 Motn Picture Productn Co, aka the Hays Co, a set of self-imposed dtry guil that banned (along wh nudy, ltful kissg and more) onscreen homosexual pictns.

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That prompted filmmakers to skirt the l by makg sure any even vaguely gay characters were tragic, lonely, doomed or topic was explored pth the 1996 documentary The Celluloid Closet, based on the landmark book by Vo Rso.

“I said, you know, if you talk to 10 gay men and ask what they thk, three will love him, three will hate him and four will be jt like him, ” she rells. ”Now, 2022, “we live a culture where people look [at gay Whe Lot characters] and shg … People are not takg as an offense. ’”Further, Whe, who is bisexual and whose father is a gay activist, touched upon aga wh Terri Gross on NPR recently, tellg her, “this whole season of the show is … gog to a certa, like, nstellatn of trop and try to, like, play wh those trop a way that hopefully feels h.

On that Redd thread, not one menter, “I’m pretty sure mike whe is bisexual, and his father is gay. The ‘evil gays, ’ as they’ve been lled, I’ve never really seen that explored. ”Regardg the “bury your gays” trope, Katz believ the way Whe handled was “a subversn.

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”“You had this credibly loved queer figure [Tanya] who’s the one buryg the gays — and this stance, the gays are evil. So we had to sacrifice the gays orr to keep the queen of the gays. ” He even qutns the morn existence of the “bury your gays” trope.