DTP02 said:
At the risk of reigniting a weeks-old debate, I think it's the sex scene and PDA more than the fact that the two were gay which clearly makes this woke and agenda-pushing. That's a conscious decision in the writers' room to be more aggressive and explicit in the depiction of gay relationships than hetero relationships.
You're kidding yourself if you won't admit to recognizing this or think this either coincidental or just about the story. It's absolutely an agenda.
In every movie or tv show/series, absolutely every single thing that happens on screen is a conscious decision made in the writer's room. And there's an "agenda" behind every one of those decisions. They don't just happen for no reason at all. That's just another way of saying there's a
reason for every decision they make.
So of course they had a purpose for the characters being gay. I've seen several posts like yours that seem to suggest you've uncovered some sinister, ulterior plot, when
all you're doing is stating the patently obvious.There are millions of gay people and gay couples in America. There have been countless millions more who lived closeted lives and who struggled mightily as teens when they discovered they were attracted to the same sex, as opposed to most of us who are attracted to the opposite.
For most of our history they've been ostracized and persecuted, and the same has been in true in tv/films. So a lot of filmmakers today are just acknowledging the reality that's been deliberately avoided for a long time. Many of those tv shows/films go absolutely over the top with it to the point that it has the opposite of the intended effect.
This show treated it really well, I thought. I saw absolutely nothing unrealistic or over the top about it.
