Aidan Micho: Unexpected beefcake in "Minimum Wage" leads to comedian brothers, a pizza place upstate, bondage, and a 12-incher

 

Minimum Wage (2026) just dropped on Netflix, a mockumentary about quirky teenage employees at a pizza place in central New York.  The surprisingly hunky Randall Park plays company CEO, who drops in to inform the the workers that he's planning to shut down their branch for under-performance, but changes his mind when they help restore his joie de vivre.  

 I was surprised that teenagers working part-time minimum wage jobs love the pizza place so much that they are devastated by the threat of closure.  Couldn't they get new jobs elsewhere?  And why doesn't the title have something t to do with pizza, to go along with premise: "Money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys pizza, which is almost the same thing."  Agreed.

No gay characters are immediately obvious; there are several mentions of girlfriends or the desire for girlfriends in the first episode.  But some of the guys are cute, such as Tommy Armstrong as an indie musican, and there's a shot of unexpected beefcake.

Here it was Aidan (Aidan Micho), pranked by his coworkers into thinking that if you spend ten minutes in the freezer, your penis will grow two inches. When he asks "How long?", they just make numbers up.  That's mean -- and dangerous -- but the reference to Aidan's penis is a plus.  And no one said he had to be shirtless.

I love it when guys take their shirts off for no reason but to give viewers something to gawk at.

1. Is the character Aiden gay?  

He wears a bracelet and an ostentatious ring, and sometimes flashes a limp wrist. When the drama club visits, Aidan becomes defensive about his knowledge of classic musicals: "It's not weird."  Does he mean "It doesn't make me gay?"

He tries to find some male strippers for the female manager's birthday party, and approaches two EMT guys outside a club. "Fun, an EMT theme!  How much do you guys cost?"  "Free, depending on your insurance." 

"Great, my friend is gonna die.  Come to 605 Water Street in ten minutes."  

When he worries about losing his hair, he notes that both of his dads have full heads of hair. "My surrogate mother must be bald!"  Har-har.

They're not going to make a guy with gay dads gay himself. 

Oh, well, at least he takes off his shirt again when they buy a hot tub, and cuddles with Hyde Healy, left.

Sorry Hyde, you're short, but not attractive enough for a profile.

But Aidan? 

Question #2: Has Aidan played any gay characters elsewhere?

Filmmaker and comedian Aidan Micho has 120,000 followers on Instagram and 51,000  on Tiktok, with 1.1 million likes. He and his brother Ryan have 616,000 Youtube subscribers for their comedy shorts.

They grew up in Baldwin, New York --- upstate, about a 20 minute drive from Syracuse - graduated from high school in 2019 and 2021, and attended Syracuse University.

Most of Aidan's on-screen roles have ben walk ons:

Banana Split (2018), about two girls chasing the same boy.  Dylan Sprouse appears.Aidan plays Locker Student.

Left: Dylan's dick, in case you haven't seen it lately.

Miguel Wants to Fight (2023): Miguel (Tyler Dean Flores) is moving to the big city, where he'll have to fight, so he asks his three friends to help him prepare.  Aidan plays a Bully's Friend.

Prom Dates (2024): Two girls break up with their romantic partners just before the big prom.  Now they need new dates in a hurry!  I seem to recall hearing that one of girls is a lesbian. Aidan plays "Cargo Shorts Bro"

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Sam Sherpa-Moore: Sherpa actor fights a watermelon, flirts with Doctor Who, shows his d*ck. With Joel Fry's butt and Callum's cock.

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Aidan Close: Draco Malfoy's son strips down for his senior thesis, plays an incel and a Civil War soldier, wears a butterfly dress

 

What is Aidan Close wearing?  A Kermit the Frog outfit that's too big, and sliding off him?

Don't you hate it when butterflies eat the back of your dress?

He wore the butterfly dress for the gala performance of  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway, where he plays Scorpius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's son.  Emmet Smith, right, plays Albus Potter, Harry's son.

Adrian:  "I'm so happy the Sorting Hat brought us together."  

Question #1: Are they dating?

Probably not.  Neither post many off-stage photos together. 

Question #2: Are they dating in the play?

A review says that their relationship is "intimate, sweet, and safe," but is it a friendship or a romance?

They are just good buddies in the original two-part, multiple-hour play, which sends the two Hogwarts boys on a time-travel adventure: Each gets a girlfriend. It's Harry Potter, you can't say the g-word or the t-word.

But in the paired-down, 3 1/2 hour version more often produced, the girls are platonic pals, and the relationship becomes more or less gay-coded, depending on the director's staging.  

Left: A hug.  They may be a different Albus and Scorpious.  

Left: Anthony Boyle, a previous Albus Potter, nude in The House of Guiness.

Question #3: Any gay characters?

His theatrical credits include:

Much Ado About Nothing.  There's more or less gay subtext.

Incels and Other Myths, performed at the New York Theater Festival (2023): A teenage boy (Aidan) into online gaming gets pulled into the misogynistic incel subculture. 

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Masterplan: French boy and Italian girl thieves plot to steal the...Mona Lisa. And don't fall in love. With Ivanir butt and nude French and Italian guys

  

Masterplan (2026), on Amazon Prime: Two strangers, a man and a woman, are charged with breaking into the Louvre and stealing...the Mona Lisa!  Sounds from the plot description that they'll be falling in love, but plot twist: they're siblings!   

Scene 1: A party in Rome, with muscular guys gyrating.  A young lady, probably Chiara, goes to the kitchen, grabs a tray of flaming drinks, and offers one to a sleazy guy sitting on a throne surrounded by ladies. She clicks a cell phone.  He reads his text: "Buy now!"  So it's spam?

He returns to his hotel room and checks out the investments on his computer, with Chiara on the balcony, hacked in.  He hears someone out there, and looks around.  Dude, she's standing right next to you. But he gets a text from a "Me so horny" girl, and leaves.

Chiara goes downstairs, gets on her scooter, and drives off.

Cut to the Place Vendôme in Paris. A heavilly disguised guy, probably Jay (Victor Belmondo) enters a hotel, sets a timer, and heads up to the Presidential Suite.  He breaks in, grabs some jewelry and stuff from the dressing room, but security is at the door!  He breaks through the wall, heads downstairs, and drives off.

Scene 2: Chiara in her elegant bedroom, eating an elegant breakfast and texting, Jay in his dumpy apartment, eating junk food and texting.  They get job offers simultaneously: a private residence break-in, paying 25,000 euros.

Cut to Lake Como, in the Italian Alps, on the Swiss border. They both show up for the break-in job, and exchange flirty banter. 

Jay works with explosives: "A little boom, sixty seconds in and out.  What do you say?"

Chiara: "Isn't that your Tinder profile?"  

Jay: "No, it's just Jay from Paris."  Heterosexual identity established at Minute 5.  

They continue to flirt as he tries to cut the power.   She bets him that it won't work; it doesn't, so he has to strip.  That's your brother, girl.

On into the house, and the safe with the stuff they're supposed to steal.  But it's empty.

"You passed the test," an English voice says.  "Bravo.  And bare-chested.  Interesting."  

"What do you care?" Jay asks angrily.  Hey, don't be homophobic.  Accept the femme gay guy's interest as a complement.

Scene 3: The femme guy is Roger, played by Stanley Tucci, a super-femme dude who you'll instantly tag as gay.  He's actually straight, but he's capitalized on his "obviously gay" presentation by playing a string of gay characters, so maybe Roger....

Rog tells them that Chiara is the best hacking thief in the world, and Jay is the best explosives thief. If he's so great, why does he live in a dump?  But he wanted to see if they could work together. 

They can, in spite of the constant flirting, so he wants to hire them for "the job of a lifetime," that will make them both billionaires.

Oh, by the way, he also wanted to hire them because he's their father.  He stole their toothbrushes and got DNA samples.  Here are the test results.

Cut to Jay calling his mother.  "So...um...did you hook up with an extremely feminine straight guy played by Stanley Tucci?"

"Oh, right, we met in Mumbai in 1995, and hooked up, but I lost his number, so I couldn't tell him when I got pregnant.  I didn't want to tell you, so I made up a story about a dead Greek sailor."

Scene 4:  Back in the parlor, Chiara is furious. She was abandoned at birth, and raised by horribly abusive foster parents, so if he's her Dad, he's got some explaining to do.

Roger explains that he was stealing something on the island of Capri, and he met the private detective hired to track the person who stole a valuable Picasso.  It wasn't him, so they hooked up, and didn't see each other again. 

Left: This review was a little beefcake-light, so I included a random French guy.

Scene 4: So, what's the job?  Stealing the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world.  Don't bother looking for it in the Louvre -- it's disappointingly small, and impossible to see from behind the scores of selfie-taking tourists.  And if you do -- it looks like the 300,000 reproductions you'll see over your lifetime.

He shows them a map of a forgotten tunnel leading from the Louvre 300 m across the Seine to the basement of Academie Francaise. 

He asks them to spend the night, and decide in the morning.

Scene 5: Chiara in her room, on her laptop, making sure that the DNA test isn't a fake.  Then she stops by Jay's room to tell him that everything checks out, and "I wasn't checking out your butt." "Yes, you were."  Since you now know that you're siblings, maybe cut down on the flirting?  A brother and sister really shouldn't have a "will they or won't they?" plotline.

Cut to the crowds milling around the Mona Lisa.  The Louvre has other exhibits, you know.

After complaints and "It's impossible," they agree, and he explains the plan. "Let's do this...as a family!" Are they really the best in the world, or did you hire them to connect with your kids?

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