'Grace and Frankie' review: Netflix seri about gay hbands and spurned wiv is remarkable

Contents:

• MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'
• MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'
• MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'
• MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'
• WHAT ‘GRACE & FRANKIE’ GETS RIGHT & WRONG ABOUT GAY FRIENDSHIP
• MART SHEEN AND SAM WATERSTON GO GAY FOR PAY (AND LGHS) ON ‘GRACE AND FRANKIE’
• GAY, INTERFAH, MARRIAGE: “GRACE AND FRANKIE”
• GRACE AND FRANKIE: THE COMPLEXY OF GAY INTY
• 'GRACE AND FRANKIE' REVIEW: NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY HBANDS AND SPURNED WIV IS REMARKABLE

MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'

But by cludg gay them, Grace and Frankie has taken on the rponsibily of beg a queer show. On that level, fails simply by not knowg what 's dog, " the Mic article read, before specifilly potg to the show's mishandlg of the on-screen chemistry between two gay men while also referencg the bad sex jok.

It's possible, however, that the biggt problem wh Grace and Frankie is the way seemgly "ps gay men agast agg women, " two mographics who are already stgglg as is. Saturday, Mart Sheen and Sam Waterston discsed playg a gay. a gay uple.

MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'

possible and easy, ” Sheen said of the experience playg gay. Gay men thrive a tribe. That’s what I’ve learned om TV shows, thk piec, and Instagram photos featurg groups of gays.

But that’s not how my gay plotle has veloped. I me out paratively late, bond wh a muny of people uned by a sire to perform edy a grocery store basement, and let ternalized homophobia stall my self-acceptance until well after I found my Mr. Now I’m a 32-year-old married gay man who’s more proud of beg out than ever — but I don’t have a group of gays.

MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'

In three seasons, those gay septuagenarians have e out of the closet, grown fortable their inti and disvered their own ner fabulons.

I spent most of my 20s figurg out how I uld and should be gay, pecially sce my role mols growg up as a eply closeted Tennsean were limed to Will, Jack, and Ellen. Sol and Robert are the gays I’ve been wag to see. Robert’s as perplexed by the gay dog park’s hook-up lgo “The Goodby” as I would be, and I feel Sol’s hance about drag queen bgo “The Negotiatn.

” That’s why surprised me when was revealed halfway through season one that Sol and Robert, after half a century the closet, have a group of gay iends — the one thg I haven’t been able to figure out. In the seri’ sixth episo, “The Earthquake, ” Robert is shown hangg out wh Al and Eddie, two brightly drsed, middle-aged gay men that get a few snap-worthy zgers durg their mute on screen. We don’t, however, see them exert any energy over makg gay iends.

MART SHEEN, SAM WATERSTON ON PLAYG GAY ON 'GRACE AND FRANKIE'

Their gay iends jt magilly appear, as if they were part of the g out gift set. The newly out uple mak gay iends so effortlsly that the show don’t even show you how they did .

WHAT ‘GRACE & FRANKIE’ GETS RIGHT & WRONG ABOUT GAY FRIENDSHIP

But also, Sol says season one’s “The Secrets” (which troduc the also fabulo Jeff and Peter) that they only “know five gay people the world. ” I gus after g out to their wiv, Sol and Robert highlighted all the known gays their rolox and ma a big ph for new iendships. I have plenty of iends that are gay, but my go-to crew is predomantly straight.

The FOMO I feel every time I see pics of gay bnch/movie nights/etc. Siarly, my gay/straight iendships are tensely important to me (they are my crew, after all), and would be valuable to see that reflected Grace and Frankie, too.

MART SHEEN AND SAM WATERSTON GO GAY FOR PAY (AND LGHS) ON ‘GRACE AND FRANKIE’

Robert and Sol have s’ worth of iendships and the show suggts they’ve dropped all of them favor of hangg out wh the five gays the entire world that they knew. The jt released season three actually clus a multi-episo plotle that uld have been a great way for Robert and Sol to make gay iends. Robert gets volved a gay muny theater group’s productn of 1776.

Season three’s “The Burglary” even als wh one of my personal worri about gay iendships: not beg gay enough. Robert loved beg wh people that only knew him as a gay man, not as a recent nvert.

That same fear crept to my bra when I was around groups of gay men my 20s.

GAY, INTERFAH, MARRIAGE: “GRACE AND FRANKIE”

I thought there was only one right way to be gay, and I was an outlier. ” In the episo, Robert shows a great al of tert his gay nurse Jojo’s (played by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy‘s Jai Rodriguez) explos.

Sol’s shocked by all this, tellg Jojo that he and Robert aren’t “that kd of gay. ” To Sol’s surprise, Robert adms he might be that “kd of gay” — or at least he’d like to try out.

” After s of nial, the two had to accept themselv and acknowledge and embrace their part the larger world of gay men. There’s no one way to be gay — and beg “that kd of gay, ” if you are that kd of gay, isn’t a thg to be ashamed.

GRACE AND FRANKIE: THE COMPLEXY OF GAY INTY

It took me a long time to embrace the thgs that make me gay as hell; now, at 32, I sport a mtache, wear speedos, rock gay pri Star Wars te and quote RuPl wh scery and reverence.

Part of the fun of watchg Grace and Frankie is watchg Robert and Sol embrace the thgs that make them gay as hell, too. Now I jt need to bt out my rolox and fe them gay iendships. Yep, there are some thgs I n learn om those 70-somethg fictnal gays.

'GRACE AND FRANKIE' REVIEW: NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY HBANDS AND SPURNED WIV IS REMARKABLE

She plays Frankie's tranged younger sister who tried to warn her that Sol was gay on her weddg day, returng to La Jolla 40 years later to make amends. It's clear the two were gettg the hang of beg publicly gay and married but they were nfed when me to third parti. Sheen and Waterston gabbed wh about love, ath and the perils of gog gay for pay.

Sheen: It’s the show’s nod to the gay muny, one that says mment is equally as important as sexualy.