This is just to get your attention.
The second season of Deli Boys just dropped on Hulu. I reviewed an episode of the first season, and gave it a B: not enough beefcake, but some gay characters, including Brian George, whom men of a certain age remember as Babu on Seinfeld, as the season's Big Bad.
The Premise: After their father is murdered, Pakistani-American brothers, the hardworking Mir (Asif Ali) and the screw-up Raj (Saagar Shaikh), inherit his deli and DarCo, a company that produces and sells achar (a pickle relish). Soon they discover that they are actually transporting cocaine to drug dealers in the West Philly market. Two of Dad's consiglieres, Aunt Lucky and Ahmad (Brian George), show them the ropes of their new business -- until Ahmad, betrays them in a ploy to gain control. Oh, and he's the one who murdered their Dad.
Scene 1: DarCo is now the Number #1 cocaine distributor in Philly, grossing $2 million per quarter, but with fame comes notoriety: Every criminal is trying to "jack their shit" So the guys and Aunt Lucky go to Max Sugar's casino to ask for his help in laundering their drug money.
Max (Fred Armisen) resists the idea... whoops, he catches someone cheating with weighted dice, so he goes down to the floor and forces the guy to eat them. Dude is dangerous!
Back to business: he is extremely attracted to Aunt Lucky, and agrees to discuss the matter further, over dinner tonight.
Left: Not Fred Armisen.
Scene 2: DA Andrew Chadwater (gay actor Andrew Rannells) is running for mayor on a platform of cracking down on "dealers, sickos, and crooks," with the campaign slogan "Say 'heck, no' to drugs." Sounds like Nancy Regan's "Just Say No" campaign in the 1980s.
At headquarters, he gets the intel on the latest fad, where you mix cocaine with ices. His assistant points out that his ex-husband was a cocaine addict, so he has a personal stake in the issue.
"We're not talking about Craig" Chadwater exclaims. "Did he call?"
"No."
"Gosh-darn it! If it weren't for the Dars Gang selling cocaine, Craig would be at home right now making me a pasta."
"Wait...wasn't he addicted before the Dars Gang..."
"That's none of your business. You're fired. Teach the twink your job and go."
More after the break
The assistant is played by Tiyler Alf, who may be gay. He hugs this guy, Ricardo, and announces "A double wedding." Later the guy is sitting on his lap -- but they break to have lunch with two girls.
Scene 3: Dad's former assistant Matthew (Jake Prizant) is running the guys' deli. He tells them that the freezer is full of cash, so he's stashing some in loaves of high-fiber bread. Also, the chip bags are booby trapped.
Left: Matthew was in love with Dad, but I think Jake Prizant is straight. He does a comic about being the only guy on Earth who doesn't think that Sydney Sweeney from Euphoria is hot (you know you play a gay character, right?).
They really need that laundering, so the guys advise Aunt Lucky to flirt extensively with Max Sugar at their dinner tonight.
"Nope, I don't mix business and sex. Sex is transactional, and business is intimate."
Scene 4: Aunt Lucky's dinner with Max Sugar.
Meanwhile, back at the deli, the guys discuss Max, "a criminal so good that he's literally above the law." They aspire to be that great someday. "We could become the next Great American Family. Like the Kennedys, but brown. Or the Roosevelts, but brown."
Scene 5: Aunt Lucky returns to the deli to announce that she had sex with Max, so they won't be doing business with him. They'll figure out how to launder the money "as a family."
Suddenly two gunmen in stupid masks burst in. Aunt Lucky annihilates them, but three more burst in and grab her. (The guys are useless in a fight.)
Then Max Sugar strolls in to drop off something Aunt Lucky forgot, sees what is happening, and tells the goons who he is. He forces the head goon to play "odd or even." "Even: you get to go home." They run out, where Max's goons shoot them. So he knew there was trouble, or does he always travel with goons?
Aunt Lucky decides to work with him after all.
Scene 6: Chadwater's assistant tells him that the Dars have been spotted at Max Sugar's casino. They decide to visit the casino and take them down. The end.
Beefcake: None. A lot of middle-aged guys who have no nude or even shirtless shots online. I'll have to push up the nudity requirement with some random Indian or Pakistani dudes.
Heterosexism: Aunt Lucky and Max Sugar. The guys don't express any heterosexual interest in this episode, but I recall that they both had wives or girlfriends last season.
Gay Characters: Chadwater. I like having the gay guy be a "family values" Ned Flanders type, but there's only a brief reference to the ex-husband, who I'm certain will never be referenced again.
Also, in Season 1, Tan France from Queer Eye played vicious gang leader Zubair, who wanted to kill Aunt Lucky and the guys. He'll be back, having found enlightenment through "woo zen." Presumably he's gay.
My Grade: Not a lot going on in this episode, and no beefcake, but at least some gay representation B.
See also: "Deli Boys": Pakistani-American brothers learn a secret about their Dad. With a lot of gay characters and some bonus Pakistani d*cks
Panchayat: Gay Subtext Series (With a Little Tweeking) from India
Andrew Rannells and Adam Devine bromance? With bonus bulge, butt, and dick pics.
Who the heck is Kumail Nanjiali, and is he gay?
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