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This is also a show that regularly employs the unbelievable device of masks to artificially create drama instead of taking the time and care to do it organically and credibly. It’s just lazy all around.

Everything is just so meaningless on this show (death, etc.) I know a lot of that is soap convention, but DAYS takes it to an extreme.

Ron shouldn’t have tried to explain this. He made it worse because it’s so easy to pick apart his argument. He’s not great at the public-facing part of this gig (in addition to many other aspects).

Posted in the TP thread:

Dustin from Phoenix 🇺🇸

A group interview with the creatives behind each version: Russell T. Davies (the British original), Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman (the Showtime version), and Stephen Dunn (the new Peacock version).

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.