This one falls into that darker corner of gay cinema. There was real potential buried in here, but the execution feels so flat that at points it plays out more like a filmed stage play than an actual movie. It's a dark psychological drama built around a street hustler confessing to a brutal, confusing murder of his own lover. Black and white flashback sequences do a solid job laying out the details of what happened, but the real focus stays on the dialogue and the writing itself. Right at the start, a young hustler has already killed his male lover Claude. Three days go by before he calls the police to turn himself in for the murder. But instead of just reporting it somewhere ordinary, he actually summons the police and the local press directly into a judge's private chambers. Yves has keys to the place, which tracks given what he does for a living, but having the press waiting right outside makes the whole scene look like some elaborate blackmail scheme against the judge. The ...
We meet Gabriel, a YouTube and social influencer, who has recently come under trouble for tweeting some homophobic slur, despite him being gay. His agency manager and owner together decide that it might b a good idea for him to stay away from public life in a remote place till heat dies down. His manager sends him to his cousin Pedro's home in a remote town. Pedro is closet gay who is trying to make it with his girlfriend but arrival of Gabriel complicates thing and before we know, the two guys fall for each other. Meanwhile there is plotting and scheming going on between the agencies. When Pedro's mother dies in the city, the do come to city to deal with public scrutiny while working on their relationship. The show then has rather abrupt ending.
There are a lot of problems with this series, from bad story to really bad acting. The continuity is all over the place. The connect and gradual attraction between Pedro and Gabriel in the beginning are handled well but eventually it just feels toxic. There are all sort of impediments that come their way and they just magically get resolved. Totally random! We also see some politics between agency management but that was again just there. Pedro's girlfriend was so clingy that despite knowing her boyfriend is gay, she just wanted to be with him. Gabriel was a bad bad actor and so was the agency owner lady. Pedro was the online decent who could act but other than that, this is a complete miss. There is absolutely nothing worth talking about fo this series. Absolute waste of time and I am so angry for doing that. (1/10)
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