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Does Heated Rivalry give anyone else the ick?


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  1. 1. Does this show give you the ick?



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Monstermilo

gay people should be allowed to stan mediocre shows too not everything we release has to be oscar worthy. im just happy we see a gay show with frequent gay sex scenes in almost every episode - we havent seen that really in mainstream media

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The show makes people really happy + it started really important conversations

Even if it sucked, which I don't think it does, especially the latest episodes, I would love it for that. We need it more than ever in 2025.

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TheFrenchGuy
10 hours ago, zevthepaparazzo said:

1. The original novels were written by a woman for other women (yikes)

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The fetishisation of gay people by heterosexual people of the opposite sex is a real problem y'all

Men have been fetishizing women forever and that includes gay men. Let’s not pretend that this book being written by a woman is some sort of oppression…

I agree that the show is a tad overrated but it’s just entertainment and it never pretended to be anything else. With the amount of shows on Netflix that are basically just softcore **** for straight people, i don’t understand why this show gets criticized for being exactly that. 

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nodandsmile

I saw a poster of the show in one of those free sites and before seeing the title I genuinely thought it was a p*rno and was shook

not really surprised it's a hit, people are really freaked out nowadays, HBO is just supplying the demand!

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Concertaholic
10 minutes ago, Monstermilo said:

gay people should be allowed to stan mediocre shows too not everything we release has to be oscar worthy. im just happy we see a gay show with frequent gay sex scenes in almost every episode - we havent seen that really in mainstream media

Y’all must be too young to know Queer as Folk cause this sort of stuff was on HBO decades ago with the same amount of hot softcore action but with actual good writing and character development…

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Monstermilo
10 minutes ago, Concertaholic said:

Y’all must be too young to know Queer as Folk cause this sort of stuff was on HBO decades ago with the same amount of hot softcore action but with actual good writing and character development…

QAF has a lot of corny writing its just as corny as heated rivalry 

and that came out 20 years ago, there hasnt been much in between in terms of shows with graphic sex scenes 

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Concertaholic
4 minutes ago, Monstermilo said:

QAF has a lot of corny writing its just as corny as heated rivalry 

and that came out 20 years ago, there hasnt been much in between in terms of shows with graphic sex scenes 

Well so many of y’all are acting like this show is groundbreaking with its sex scenes, but it’s not…

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Monstermilo
3 minutes ago, Concertaholic said:

Well so many of y’all are acting like this show is groundbreaking with its sex scenes, but it’s not…

its not groundbreaking but it happens on every episode which is something we dont see often. 

plus theres no other gay show right now thats this popular. even str8 audiences are loving this show for some reason. usually with a lot of gay shows or characters we get one MAYBE two sex scenes per season - this show is doing it almost every episode which is nice to see

ive said this before without the sex scenes, this show would be meh but i like that it doesnt shy away from showing the main characters having sex. i also like that its two gay couples and not just one. in so many shows today we see one gay side couple among 5 straight couples/characters and they barely get any screen time

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I just kinda want a show that’s kinda more true to real gay life than what gets show on tv, but that’s never gonna happen. 
 

the closest I’ve found is a wonderful tv show here in the UK called Smoggie Queens (about Drag Queens from Middlesbrough) and although it has some insane hijinks, the emotional and even the sexual level feels more true to life I find. Play all the actors are LGBTQ+ 

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30 minutes ago, Concertaholic said:

Y’all must be too young to know Queer as Folk cause this sort of stuff was on HBO decades ago with the same amount of hot softcore action but with actual good writing and character development…

My internet isn’t working properly but if this is the American one y’all should watch the original UK version. It’s very much “provocative” but indicative of gay life I find 

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Ladle Ghoulash

I don’t even watch the show, but I do lowkey think the idpol gatekeeping surrounding storytelling is getting a bit tired. 

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10 minutes ago, gagzus said:

I just kinda want a show that’s kinda more true to real gay life than what gets show on tv, but that’s never gonna happen. 
 

the closest I’ve found is a wonderful tv show here in the UK called Smoggie Queens (about Drag Queens from Middlesbrough) and although it has some insane hijinks, the emotional and even the sexual level feels more true to life I find. Play all the actors are LGBTQ+ 

The most realistic gay representation I’ve seen in a while is the couple from weapons eating their snacks watching a movie lol

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