This is just to get your attention.
Deli Boys (2025), a new comedy on Hulu, features two Pakistani-American brothers, studious, hardworking Mir (Asif Ali, left) and irresponsible cokehead Raj (Saagar Shaikh), who find out a secret about their father's business activities after his death.
I doubt that a tv series written by and starring Pakistani-American guys will have any gay characters, but there's bound to be some beefcake.
Scene 1: I was right. The brothers chase a guy in his underwear, with a bag over his head, and a bulge in his shorts, out of the deli.
Three days earlier: Baba Dar records a commercial for his investors. He came to American in 1979 with three dollars in his pocket; he worked at a deli, and lived above the store with nine other guys, with six shirts between us (we see a photo; four of the guys are indeed shirtless). Today DarCo owns 40 delis around the Philadelphia area, plus Caca brand Achar (a Pakistani relish). Next he wants to buy some golf courses.
Scene 2: Cokehead Raj in bed with the Shaman Prairie (yes, that's her name) and a clump of around ten people, mostly women but two other guys. I'm going to guess that he is straight but curved around the edges.
They get up and smoke hashish, and then she applies leaches to his back, a sort of New Age thing.
Meanwhile, Drexel Grad Mir tells his father that he learned a lot about business from him, even more than at Drexel University (which he is very proud of), so he's ready for the top spot in the organization. The Girlfriend comes in and tells him that he's ready to give the speech to his father.
Next he works out, straining with a triceps pushdown.
Trainer: "I haven't even put the pin in yet." Dude is weak, har har.
The Trainer is played by Calvin Thomas (not the queer theorist, the model).
Scene 3: The guys head to the golf course. They are arguing over who deserves to become president of DarCo when Dad Baba retires. He shows up to play golf.
He is upbraiding them for being immature when a golf ball hits him in the head! He drops dead. His Caddy, Matthew, screams
Scene 4: As the brothers put a sheet over their dead Dad, Lucky Auntie bursts in. She was Dad's business partner for thirty years.
They ask, "Are you going to take care of us now?" An odd question for grown men in their 30s, but she agrees.
On to the funeral. The brothers can't do the Muslim prayers right, embarrassing everyone.
The Caddy ends with "Amen!", har har, and bursts into tears. Was he, like, Dad's boyfriend?
At the reception afterwards, Ahmad Uncle (Brian George) and Lucky Auntie spar with each other. Each thinks that the other is out to undermine them and seize control of the company.
I recall Brian George as Babu on Seinfeld, the one with the gigantic waggling finger, but he has 325 acting credits listed on the IMDB.
Scene 5: While each brother is petitioning to the DarCo board about why each should be named CEO, the feds raid and start making arrests. They were investigating Dad for fraud, inside trading, tax evasion, and so on, but he had powerful friends. Now that he is dead, they are able to act. Lucky Auntie is led off in handcuffs.
More after the break