There are some disparate threads about this Netflix show but thought I would start a dedicated thread in the TV section.
I didn't hate the show, but overall found it a bit contrite and recycled. Darren Star is getting a bit too formulaic in his approach. The characters are now so predictable that it doesn't take a second thought to see Billy as Samantha, Stanley as Miranda, and Michael as a Charlotte/Carrie Combo with a Suzanne representing gal pal Stanford. How about some NEW character types?! Can't gay men be more interesting than this?
The show is 'brain and eye-candy' both, but found it a little depressing showing the same bitchy, shallow, predictable New Yorkers doing their vapid best to seem so very cool.
I think it needed like 4 more episodes to build some depth in the tone deaf characters. D-Starr rushes to get as many break-ups, hook-ups, make-ups, marriages, and finishes with a cancer diagnosis that I predicted after two episodes - OK not really, but I was expecting some 'gay disease' to come a'creeping into the plotline. The male breast cancer was a different angle at least. There's also a smattering of Grindr jokes - Thanks Captain Obvious!
I guess something showing a little more diversity in the community isn't possible when New York Insta-gays are the apparent end all be all of gay existence. Maybe I am missing the point? Is this show for 'us' or is it for the straights?
Given the lack of good gay content out there, I will probably watch the second season if there is one, but overall I give the show a hard 'C-'.