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Wilson Cruz has come a long way from Ricky on My So-Called Life:

Grace is so annoying and one-note. Cassandra Creech deserves better. The dialogue writers need to do better. Both CC and Naomi Matsuda both play their roles with that overly theatrical, somewhat stiff style.

NuSummer is so much more mature and well-matched with Sally/Courtney Hope. HHK always read as little girl.

The show is up on Peacock. Here are some reviews via Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes.

I’m hoping they have some kind of reversal or twist up their sleeves.

Did you watch How to Get Away with Murder? Awful show IMO lol but he’s on it and featured a good bit as one-half of the show’s main gay male couple.

His thighs during the dance-off hosted by Peppermint. It’s funny that Conrad Ricamora is a full decade older than most of the cast (43). I will say that Conrad is almost too good at playing the Darcy. I didn’t really buy Noah’s interest in him. And they lacked heat as a couple. I agree with your assessment in general. The movie is fine if you like this sort of light brainless comedy, and it didn’t shy away from the many of the realities of gay single life (the drugs, etc.) to appeal to respectability politics. However, I have no desire to rewatch it. It just feels sort of thin, most of the characters didn’t pop, and most of the actors weren’t charismatic or distinguished enough to make much of an impression. Some of the Noah/Howie dynamic had an interesting nuance, I guess.

Jesus in San Diego 🇺🇸

This guy slightly reminds me of Grigor.

E. Alex Jung’s profile of JKB is really something:

Hmmm, hopefully there’s some continuity with the rest of the show and it’s not some one-off like the Sean Donely tribute (which I liked but that was an unusual circumstance of course).

I found the opening to be tough-going myself with the cliché, self-conscious, too-on-the-nose identity name-checking when they were on the ferry to Fire Island (I’m an older millennial), but I was laughing somewhat more often as the movie progressed.

Miss Hope seems to be enjoying Liam’s body today. Get it, gurl! At least Bradley Bell now recognizes an asset when he has one, as shown by his use of LSV/Carter. I’m still waiting on Rory Gibson/Noah to be properly objectified on Y&R after all this time. Come on, it’s low-hanging fruit when you have little else that’s of interest.

Yeah, it’s a pretty breezy watch. Diverting for an evening.

I’ll be interested in hearing what you both think. It seems to be somewhat polarizing in many ways.

They saw the diamond in the rough.

Who watched the new movie on Hulu? It stars Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, Conrad Ricamora, Matt Rogers, James Scully, Nick Adams, and Margaret Cho. It’s cute as a typical rom-com fantasy loosely based on Pride and Prejudice, which means you have turn your brain off to really enjoy it, but for all of its claims of diversity, it falls into a lot of the same traps of marginalizing its black and brown characters (and inadvertently centering the white gays the film tries to critique by making the clueless white doctor the prize): Conrad Ricamora is delicious, though, and there are some insightful moments:

With Bill it was the death of Vinny and Justin having him and Liam locked up for murder. With Wyatt, it was Sally faking her illness and holding Flo hostage (and given how long CH has been on Y&R—that tells you how long ago that was). I can’t even say re: Katie/HT. Other than the flirtation with Carter, maybe the time Quinn filmed Brooke/Bill kissing for the billionth time? That didn’t even really seem like a story. Maybe when Wyatt/Katie were banging? How many years ago was that?

One of the greatest voices ever. Died a little over 25 years ago:

B&B sucks. When they are done with a story, it almost stops cold. Things don’t really flow. It’s like they are still attempting an odd telenovela style.

Someone who also has a great body: Jennifer Gareis. 51 looks spectacular on her.

This Jersey boy 🇺🇸

I think you’re right. This show sucks, though. Eric didn’t even visit his granddaughter (who was fighting for her life and just lost her husband, at least she thought) in the hospital (to my knowledge).

Did they even feature her in the Brooke alcoholism story?