Boy Meets Boy
Tonight I realized I’ve watched the entire run of the pseudo-gay dating show “Boy Meets Boy” on Bravo and I haven’t written about it once. Not sure why that is – maybe it’s because I thought it was a niche product in the pop culture canon, and people would not have seen it.
The funny thing about this show is, on the one hand I despise everything it stands for. But on the other hand, I can’t look away. (I guess that’s sort of the same for all “reality” programming, but especially this show.)
Making half of the “mates” that pretty but brain-freezingly bland James has to choose from straight is an evil tactic. On the one hand, how much more evil is it than the rest of the reality snakepit? Does James really think he’ll be meeting the love of his life here? (Sometimes I think he does.) But in some ways it does seem worse than the average reality show twist – would they even think of sneaking in some lesbians for Joe Millionaire to choose from?
As it is, the show appeals to the absolute worst in both gay and straight audiences. Watch the gay guy get humiliated! Spend lots of time guessing who’s gay! It’s an endless buffet of pain.
But yet I can’t stop watching. For anyone who has seen the show, I predict that Franklin is the straight one. (See how I’m buying into it? I hate myself. 🙂
When I first saw the ads for this, I was stunned. I had no reaction handy but staring. I felt sort of way a person feels when a physical impaired friend makes what sounds like a cripple joke — but you aren’t sure.
is this a joke? Am I allowed to laugh? Is this an insult? Should I get indignant?
I’m sooo not watching this show. I don’t need this level of internal conflict.
Well, it’s pretty much over anyway – just one episode left. The question is, will the next gay-themed show be worse, or better?
My main beef is that from the Boy in Waiting down the line, there isn’t a fuckable fucker in the whole fucking bunch. What a bag of Bran Chex(tm) they are.
Bran chex?
I don’t know what Jon intends, but Bran Chex is some of the most bland, serious, depressing breakfast cereal in existance. It is conspicuously “good for you”, and you don’t want anything to do with it.
I agree with John that I don’t find any of them that attractive, with the possible exception of Franklin (whatever his orientation). Why don’t any of the guys look like Patrick Norton? Now there’s a dating show I could heartily endorse.
I agree that the “Boy Meets Boy” guys are not all that desirable, nor is James. I see 20 hotter guys every time I walk a block in my gay neighborhood. They’re nice folks, I think, but not the best gay guys we could offer by any long shot. James is whiny and insecure and a bit dorky. My MOM would probably love him, but is THIS our “leading man” material?
If you’re gonna have a silly meat market show, why not have the best meat we have to offer on display?
It is insulting to have had SEVEN heteros on the show, out of 15 contestants. I could ALMOST accept this silly premise for a show if there was only one or 2 heteros, but SEVEN? For Pete sake! That’s absurd!