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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 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 WHE LOT’ SEASON FALE: ‘THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME!’
- JENNIFER COOLIDGE WAS A FAN OF WHE LOT'S “CORPT, SOULLS” GAYS
- ‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
- WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
- THE WHE LOT KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE
- 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 POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDCAMERON 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 POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDIN 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 FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANWHAT ARE THE MOST PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARS?FROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPTRACY MOORE
- 'THE WHE LOT' KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE
MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
Qun is not gay and abandons his fay and stays back on the island to noe wh his crew to learn and explore Hōkūleʻa. * gay guys from white lotus *
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THE WHE LOT SEASON TWO: FANS LEFT UTTER SHOCK BY UNEXPECTED GAY SEX SCENE
* gay guys from white lotus *
In a classic Whe Lot twist, though, a gay sex scene me om somewhere else entirely.
FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
Introduced episo three, wealthy gay man Quent (Tom Hollanr) is at the Whe Lot hotel Sicily wh a group of gay iends. 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. 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.
‘THE WHE LOT’ SEASON FALE: ‘THE GAYS, THEY’RE TRYG TO MURR ME!’
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. '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.
"The gays, they're tryg to murr me. 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 The Whe Lot season two's Quent (Tom Hollanr) and his gaggle of rich, olr European gays. 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.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE WAS A FAN OF WHE LOT'S “CORPT, SOULLS” GAYS
The gays weren't rich eher - they had nothg but an old and yg villa to e as a fa for, 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 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 Tanya asked, "Do you know the gays? 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 episos of The Whe Lot season two are now available on HBO and HBO Max. (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.
‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
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. 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.
WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
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. 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.
THE WHE LOT KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE
“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.
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 POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDCAMERON 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 POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDIN 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 FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANWHAT ARE THE MOST PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARS?FROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPTRACY MOORE
The ‘evil gays, ’ as they’ve been lled, I’ve never really seen that explored.
'THE WHE LOT' KNOWS HOW TO SKEWER WHE GAY PRIVILEGE
”Regardg the “bury your gays” trope, Katz believ the way Whe handled was “a subversn.