You have to suffer public humiliation in your 40s for the good of your brain

Which is to say, I think you may have stumbled on to greatness here

Editot sounds like a movie about journalism set in the Boss Baby Expanded Universe

Yeah it is just bizarre to toss that in as a random aside

Oh it's a classic! (I haven't seen it in years but I suspect it holds up)

One of my faves, where no one is closeted except uhhhh some of the actors themselves (::cough::Nathan Lane::cough::)

Yeah it felt very regressive to me as someone who grew up watching 90s gay rom coms made by/for gay men

Yeah I have barely retained anything from eps 1-2; I mostly remember frenetic editing, challenging to keep up with timeline, and sex scenes that were very intense and not quite for me. Ep 3 was where it really grabbed me.

... what it is like to be a closeted gay pro-sports player, at least to some degree. But *also* it feels like a choice to set the one (because we only get one) queer romance show in that world in the first place! And that, more than anything in HR itself, is my big issue.

The main reason I stuck it through ep 1 was gay men telling me that the latter portion of the series was the closest they'd ever come to seeing their romantic lives depicted in a TV rom com.

My frustration is very... yes, hockey players are still closeted and this story is likely accurate to...

I don't 100% agree with all his points but I do think that the attachment to the drama of the closet is one of the most frustrating parts of the show. (That said, ep 1 is the weakest, it really gets going around ep 3, and you might like it more than you think.)

AFAIK Bari has never been a reporter which is... part of the problem

Even after the shapeshifter cons him into thinking Alisha gave him head he doesn't get mean to Alisha! He just gets confused and sad!

Also I really like how even when Simon is a creepy incel he never, not once, gets misogynist

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