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The other day my friend and I watched Hulu’s original movie Fire Island. This movie is such a great and diverse look at gay culture in the modern age. This whole cast is just so much fun together and they all feel like actual friends. Bowen Yang is one of the best parts of SNL right now and I’m so glad to see him gaining more success outside the show. Joel Kim Booster works incredibly well with Yang and has a very palpable tension with Conrad Ricamora who is just great in this movie. Margaret Cho will never not be an absolute icon, she’s very funny here as the found family mother of this friend group. James Scully is super duper adorable in this movie and I am now obsessed with him, the chemistry he and Yang had together was so natural. Matt Rogers, Tomás Matos, and Torian Miller get a criminally small amount of screen time but really use what little they get to the best of their ability. This movie isn’t afraid to show the insecurities that a lot of gay men deal with everyday and how we’re not all the same. There are so many different types of gay men and each member of this group feels a little different from the last. And seeing their group bump into another group of gays that are very different from them shows this in such a great way. This movie is very funny but knows exactly when to slow it down a bit and get serious before giving it a normal rom com ending. I will say, despite being cheesy, it is nice to see not just two but four men participating in a cheesy rom com ending. I’ve never heard of Fire Island before watching this and I love that they give us the briefest of backstories about it. This is such a great Pride Month watch that I would suggest to any queer person I know. I’m giving Fire Island a big 8/10. It fills my heart to see so much Queer Representation in the media now. Hopefully the big studios start to give us more as well! -Tyler.
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