A Revry original, Unconventional is a really well-liked queer dramedy that feels totally different from the usual stuff. The heart of the story is about two pretty eccentric queer siblings and their partners trying to build a family that doesn't follow the traditional rules. It takes a super raw and unfiltered look at queer life, diving deep into things like mental health, addiction, and how complicated identity and relationships can get. It’s not afraid to get messy or show people at their most vulnerable, and it really pushes boundaries while showing a lot of different queer experiences. The first season has nine episodes, and each one is about a half-hour long. The story centers on Noah, a grad student who’s been struggling for years to wrap up his PhD. He’s been with his husband, Dan, for nine years, and they’ve recently gotten married and moved to Palm Springs. While they're trying to figure out how to start a family and have a baby, they decide to shake things up by in...
Taking it away from the cruise ship, we see Jamie and Vivian now living together alongside Lauren and working to bring their enemies down whatever the cost. The trio are having little luck however, with most of their former co-workers having either gone into hiding or taken pay outs from the ship, including Olly who has since broken up with Jamie because of his obsession with revenge. Lauren manages to get a lead however through new source Ben who is investigating a wellness festival in Slovenia where he found all of the guests dead from apparent poisonings. Once at the festival Jamie comes face to face with the thought to be dead Pippa, now under a new alias and apparently on the exact same mission. Together can the group defeat another evil power source and save a bunch of innocent festival goers or will Exodum prove even more dangerous than ever before, leaving Jamie and his friends suffering loses bigger than ever?
A disappointing, and largely unnecessary, follow up that was likely not needed, but I guess the makers had to tap in to the popularity of first season. How many times can people realistically find themselves embroiled in some sort of global murder conspiracy? Unlike the first series, there's no actual 'mystery' here to be uncovered...and you're left with slogging through one implausible scenario after another as you wait for another character you're not really invested in to bite the dust. After a point, I just couldn't care about any of these characters and what they are doing. A big part of this second series focussed on the moral dilemma of Jamie’s revenge and how far he was actually willing to go to carry out his mission. I think finding out that Pippa was still alive really changed things for him because her ‘death’ was the whole reason he went undercover in the first place. Initially this was just a search and rescue mission but I think along the way the number of deaths really took its toll and something in Jamie broke, changing him for the worse. Slasher/horror is one genre that I am anyway not fan of and having to sit through this filled me with headache. This supposedly comedy show had me laugh exactly zero times. The definition of comedy has surely changed in today's time. I think I need to stick with my definition of how I define gay content that I can review on my blog. If there is one more season, I am definitely not seeing it unless many changes happen. (2/10)
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