"Dark Matter": Family Man physicist is trapped in a gay-free parallel world. With Edgerton butt, the guard's dick, and Oakes Fegley looking gay

 

After finishing Silo Season 3, we checked the other high-concept programs available on Apple Plus, and decided on Dark Matter: a "family man" changes places with his non-family man counterpart in a parallel world. Season 1 premiered in 2024, and Season 2 in 2026.  Sounds ok.

Episode 1.1: "Are You Satisfied with Your Life?"

Scene 1:  A guy with a flashlight walks through a deserted warehouse space, and approaches a triangular structure which is presented as extremely important.  

Cut to "family man" Jason (Joel Edgerton). He wakes up (shirtless shot), kisses his wife Daniela's shoulder, eats breakfast, criticizes his son Charlie's homework, tells Wife Daniela how much he loves her, and kisses her extremely passionately right in front of his son.  They discuss who will drive Charlie to school; he wants to drive himself, with Family Man Jason monitoring. 

Cut to the drive, with the boy not noticing a stoplight and getting yelled at by the driver almost smashed.  

Left: Charlie is played by Oakes Fegley.  His "girlfriend and pr manager," probably just a fan trying to deceive us, says that he "looks like a homosexual." Make up your mind, is he into you, or is he a gay slur?

On  the show, Charlie's heterosexual identity is established immediately.    He's depressed because the Girl of His Dreams is dating another boy.

"Then she has bad taste," Dad assures him.  How do you know that her boyfriend is an obnoxious jock?  Wait -- if this won't be a plot point, why mention it?  You don't need to be that eager to assure fans that Charlie isn't gay. 

Next Family Man Jason gets a text from his friend Ryan (Jimmi Simpson), who has just won a major award for proving that consciousness lies in the prefrontal cortex. That's old news.  It comes with a million dollars and lots of grant money.  Family Man Jason is invited to the celebration tonight.

Left: Jimmi Simpson's butt.  He makes a lot of gay references on his Instagram, but he has a girlfriend.

Scene 2: Family Man Jason teaching his class in bonehead physics at a horrible community college.  He draws a cat in a box to illustrate Schrodinger's paradox to his bored students.

Meanwhile, Wife Daniela is at work at her art gallery.  How gender polarized: men are into science, women into the arts.

Cut to a dude in a storage facility, keeping track of Jason's movements and holding up a vial of a purple liquid.

Scene 3: At home, Family Man Jason tells his wife how much he loves her, kisses her extremely passionately, and prepares to have sex with her on the sink -- in front of their son.  Charlie protests, but they tell him to look away.  They're interrupted by a text from Ryan: "Where are you?"

"Oh, Ryan invited me to a celebration of his major award in the bar around the corner, but I love you so much that I'm going to skip it and have sex with you in front of our son."

"Nope!  He obviously scheduled the celebration in the crappy bar around the corner instead of someplace nice because he is in love with you, and wants to ensure that you show up.  We can have sex in front of our son later tonight.  Let's just kiss passionately for ten minutes, and then you can go."

Scene 4: At the bar, Ryan introduces Family Man Jason to his Extremely Important Scientist friends, who look down on him for having a horrible job at a community college.  

Left: The cutest of the Extremely Important Scientists is Ivan (Sam Cass, top photo and left).

Later, Ryan takes Family Man Jason off by himself: "I'm starting a  neurotech company with my million dollar prize money, and I want you to come on board. We need a good physicist."  But none were available, so he's asking Jason? 

 It pay more than the crappy community college, but it's in San Francisco. (Oh, no!  Who would want to move to the center of art, music, literature, and gay culture?).

 A woman comes up and asks to have sex with Ryan. "Sure, but I'm busy right now. I'll have sex with you in a few minutes."  

Jason doesn't want to leave his life in Chicago, but he promises to talk it over with his wife.  Wait -- the having sex with a random woman isn't a plot point, either?  You guys are really paranoid about viewers thinking that characters are gay.  Sounds like showrunner Blake Crouch is homophobic, which means we won't get any actual gay characters.

Scene 5: As Family Man Jason walks to his car (wait -- I thought the bar was around the corner, walking distance), a man in a white mask grabs him and forces him to drive to a warehouse, take off his clothes, and walk a long way naked (except for boxer shorts). 

Then he has to put on new clothes (couldn't you have made him put on new clothes before the walk?  Not that I'm complaining).  

He injects Family Man Jason with something to make him fall asleep, and asks questions like "Are you happy with your life?  Do you wish things would be different if you made different choices?" Shouldn't you have asked that before the guy got too groggy to answer?

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Jay Day: The "Always Sunny" trumpeter does porn and action-adventure in Hong Kong. With nude dudes, Bud Bundy, and the guy from AP BIo

 

I'm having a bad day.  First Blogger refused to upload photos.  I figured my photo archive was full, so I deleted an old folder that looked like it contained only photos from deleted posts.  It happened to contain the illustrations to a lot of posts on artists and writers, plus The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Trailer Park Boys, Love Boat, and Married..with Children. Bud Bundy's pecs and bulge, vanished.

Then I watched It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode 18.5, where the gang goes to a Renaissance Faire.  Mac (Rob McElhenney) gets into an angry flirtation with a cute short guy; I figured that they would end up screwing.  But it was impossible to find out who played the short guy to see if he is gay in real life.  He's not on the IMDB. Google AI doesn't know. The closing credits cut to the next show just as we get to his name (I tried three times).  So for a consolation prize, I'm profiling trumpet player Jai Day.  Maybe he's the son of Charlie Day, who plays dimwitted janitor Charlie.  

No such luck. Charlie Day was born in New York City in 1976, and Jai Day in in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1986, so there's no apparent connection. 

But at least Jai is a muscleman.  He founded the Actors' Gym in Hong Kong, which...wait, it's not an actual gym, it's a actors' studio, offering scene training, voice study, and audition reviews. 

How did he get from Staffordshire to London?  

His biography doesn't say.  He received  a B.Sc. in Psychology and Sociology from Keele University, did some shorts and a horror movie, performed in Nickelodeon at Sea and Offshore LA, and suddenly in 2010 he is hosting Improv Asia. 

Some theatrical performances in Hong Kong follow: Macbeth, Four Assassins, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cockroach Flying Like a Helicopter, and The Dark Side of the Moon.  

Plus a lot of commercials.  Here he's selling socks.

And softcore straight porn: 

Due West: Our Sex Journey (2012), starring Gregory Wong (left) and Justin Cheung.

Lust and Found (2015), with Jai starring.

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The Leneave Brothers: Three Catholic swimsuit models with gay-positive ads, contradictory biographies, and model dicks

 

When Chris Leneave, aka Chris Luquin, appeared on my Instagram recommendations, I figured that he was French.  But he appears to be an American model, one of these three.  I'm not sure which yet -- all of his posts show duos or trios.

An ad from 2021. Chris (or his Mom) says that this advertises "environmentally friendly luxury swimwear" with his brother and MZ.   I still don't know which brother is Chris.

I looked for MZ, but can't find a model with that name.

Google AI thinks he might mean the Model Zone, MZ agency, based in Mexico City but with branches in Florida.  I checked the six male actors on their website, and found a nude photo, but no one who looks like the dad above.

"The perfect shorts do exist. Community and family values etched into every line."  Family values usually means homophobia, but this looks very much like two dads and their sons frolicking on the beach.

Again, he doesn't tell us who the grown-up models are, but at least he identifies himself: Chris is the older brother.

I had even less to work with in an attempt to track down the adult models.  The closest I could come was "black male model Florida."

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"Take My Muffin": A manipulative three-eyed cat befriends an amnesiac unicorn. With some dicks and a controversial gay twunk

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