This is your typical indie coming-of-age tale about a teenager, though it’s clearly working with a very tiny budget. Set within a migrant family living in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, the movie digs into how fragile old-school traditions and expectations can be. We follow a teenage son as he goes through the process of coming out and struggles to find acceptance while dealing with homophobia, domestic abuse, and a messy love triangle that involves his own sister. Goyo is seventeen and just about to graduate from high school. Since he’s been a bit more feminine since he was a little kid, he’s always had to deal with emotional and physical transition from his dad, Ramon, who is obsessed with him being "a man." The only real love he gets is from a lady next door who actually respects him for who he is. The family lives in a Mexican community where everyone works on a grape farm, but things get shaken up when a new guy named Lucio arrives. Lucio basically seduces Goyo ...
The summary is pretty straight forward. The show is about a pair of siblings Cary and Brooke, who live in New York and what happens when their 13-year-old brother has become a Bieber-sized pop sensation. Cary is struggling actor, gay and very much in love with his straight roommate who doesn't leave any opportunity of flirting with Cary. Brooke on the other hand is a former dancer with no goal in life other than to “see 50 dicks this summer”. The sibling duo is a bit envious of sudden fame by their younger brother, but they also clearly love their little brother and are protective of him in the face of a showbiz, where people chew and spit you out as quickly as they put you on their head.
All episodes focus on one aspect of the life of the sibling dup in the wake of their brother's success. With characters like their mother, who initially may comes out as someone living her life through person but has something more deep to her, to Scooter, a manager who is willing to go to any lengths to do the right for the young pop star. The show has enough sex and more than enough focus on the sibling duo; which obviously means that there is plenty of gay contention the show courtesy Cary. In a surprising episode , when the young brother makes a new song and video of how his brother is gay and he still loves it; this sitcom shows us the stark reality of sudden internet fame and how everyone has an opinion of it and whether that's good or bad keeps constantly changing. The show also shows the perils of social media in today's time. This is just one example, and each and every episode talks about something different, while keeping the whole things amazingly funny. Into the show’s conversation about fame comes the bigger question about life, and what contributes to that sense of purpose and happiness. Balancing comedy, character development, love/hate relationship, quirkiness and sass is something that this show does a great job off. The actors are just perfect for their part. I wish, the youngest brother's part was better developed, but I guess as the title suggests, the show is about the two older siblings; so that's ok.
Given the times we are living in these days, I would definitely recommend a show like this, which is very very gay friendly and high on gay content (+1 in my books), and at the same time, it is delightfully funny, witty, sharp, sexy, weird and most importantly feel-good. (8/10)
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I'm still looking forward to what you have to say about those classic movies I mentioned. But now I have one more suggestion for you. "The Beautiful Line" British mini-series.
Could you please remind me again about the other films that you had recommended. I will add the Beautiful Line to my list now. Please do continue to snd me recommendations. these really help me prioritize what to watch.
Then there's Jeffrey.