I wanted to know more about Eddie Leavy, below, who plays the queen Anthony on AP Bio, so I reviewed his guest role on The Other Two, Episode 3.8, "Brook Hosts a Night of Undeniable Good."
The premise: The less-than-famous older brother and sister of teen idol ChaseDreams (Case Walker) live in his shadow.
The episode has three plotlines. I'm reviewing only the third.
A Plot: Chase is getting kickback from his latest bad-boy stunt: "I hate ChaseDreams. What a loser!"; "Asshole!" "Everybody thinks I'm a bad guy, he complains. "And I'm not. It's giving me anxiety and depression."
His manager gets dollar signs in her eyes as she hatches a new scheme: Chase can become "the face of mental health" and make a fortune! He's not really suffering from a mental illness, but who cares when there's money to be made?
Sister Brook likes the idea, too. She has an altruistic boyfriend, and feels guilty about being so selfish, so this will give her an opportunity to prove that she is a good person -- while making money.
She arranges a telethon to raise money for mental health awareness. Ben Platt, left, and Cameron Kasky, the founder of March for Our Lives, appear as themselves.
B Plot: Mom went from single mother with a famous son to hosting her own talk show to owning a billion-dollar network. After months in the spotlight, she excitedly plans a trip back to her home town in Ohio, to return to her roots and enjoy everyday activities.
Jacob Dickey, left, appears as Nate.
She hates it. The small town is boring, her old friends are dolts, and the food is awful. You can't go home again.
C Plot: Cary, Drew Carver, has a 20th year class reunion tonight, but he doesn't want to go because he's not successful enough. He's in Windweaver, a sword-and-sorcery tv series on Netflix, but it's just a recurring role as "an elf serf," who doesn't even speak.
Then his agent calls: Netflix has picked up the show for three more years, and invited him to be a regular. Turns out that the "elf serf" is actually the Windweaver, orchestrating the events. He'll be speaking. And he's gay.
Thrilled that he can now "win the reunion." Cary tries to make the eight-hour car trip in six hours by not stopping -- he pees into a bottle and throws it out the window. Couldn't you use one of your billionaire mother's private planes?
More after the break
Max, Eddie Leavy, pulls up beside him and says that he's been throwing pee on his windshield for an hour. Use a diaper to "Show respect for other gays on the road racing home to their reunions."
He will win his own reunion with his new job as Vice President Kamala Harris's Chief of Staff. "I have her number. If I called right now, she would pick up."
They are joined by two other gays, the chief of comedy programming at Netflix and the VP of Google, and sing, to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home,"
The gays are racing home tonight, hurrah.
Our reunions we will crush tonight, because we are gay and coming to win the night.
Cut to after the reunion. Cary stops at a redneck convenience store, asking to use the bathroom so he can take off his diaper. You didn't use a regular restroom at the reunion?
Max arrives, and asks the same. The clerk says that Cary has been in there awhile, so they'd better go check on him. He's naked, wiping the pee from his face.
Out in the parking lot, they have a heart to heart. Cary feels lost. He just had a great night, lording it over his classmates, but the moment he left he became unhappy, and he doesn't know why. "I have everything I ever wanted, but I feel like crying. What's missing?"
Max feels that way, too. He won the night at his own reunion, but he's lost. What is he missing?
Cary gets a phone call from one of his old classmates, complimenting him on his acting -- "You should win an Academy Award" -- and inviting him to a group hang to watch Survivor. Epiphany: "It's so obvious what I need!"
Max gets an invitation to a group hang, too. Elated, he also concludes, "It's so obvious what I need -- friends!" He turns to invite Cary out for a drink. Did you want to make friends, or did you like what you saw in the restroom?
But Cary is already driving away. "I'm going to win an Academy Award! That will make me happy!" You thought it was going to be friends, didn't you? I forgot to mention that this guy is a jerk.
Beefcake: Some of Cary's physique.
Gay Characters: Obviously
Eddie Leavy: Not at all swishy. I guess they wanted a more stereotyped performance on AP Bio.
My Grade: Season 1 was great, but Season 2 went downhill, and Season 3 is painful. Lots of gay content, but Cary, Brook, and Mom Dubchek are so self-serving and hypocritical that I can't really get into it. I liked Max, though. C.
Bonus: Ben Platt's butt
See also: AP Bio: Glen from Always Sunny as a rascally philosophy prof turned high school teacher
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