The Top 10 Hunks of Queerbaiting TV, Part 2: Dead Pixies, an Irish psychopath, a Kraken's dick, a swishy straight guy, and a bonus Adam Devine

 

Ready for another set of hunks acquired through sitting through queerbaiting, gay teases, heteronormative erasure, and research that goes nowhere?  

"It's not easy having a good time" -- Frank N Furter.

1. Will Merrick.  Dead Pixies, a "new" Britcom on Hulu (actually 2019-21) is about three online gamers who struggle with life in the non-cyber world: the intensely hetero-horny Meg; Usman, who mentions his wife every five seconds, and Nicki (Will Merrick), who never mentions girls or any heterosexual interest -- until Season 2, when he gets a girlfriend.  A whole season of queerbaiting.

And the series is  actually called Dead Pixels. 

2. Richard Short (top photo)

I still like gingers, queerbaiting or not, so I checked on Will Merrick's other work, and found The Night Passenger "Marty (Will) is going through a crisis and is hanging on by a thread. After discovering a man (Richard Short, top photo) tied up in his trunk things go from bad to worse. Worse being a psychopathic Irishman who joins Marty on a journey through the city of LA."

Doubtless the guy in the trunk becomes a buddy/lover, and helps Marty fight the psycho.  But all of the pictures on the IMDB show Marty having a heart-to-heart with a depressed looking woman.

3. Kyle Harris.  I spent 30 minutes watching the "flashy girl from Flushing helps the cops" series High Potential, Episode 1.12, because the murder victim,  "controversial" tech guy Anson Pierce (Kyle Harris), had a queer-coded little dog (unharmed) and a mother, but no wife or girlfriend. Obviously gay.  But 30 minutes in, we learn that he was having secret trysts with a woman.  Why keep it secret?

In other news, Officer Karadec has a blistering relationship with his "former partner," FBI Agent Hank (Joe Alvarez).  I kept assuming that he meant romantic partner due to their sultry looks, married-couple arguments, and statements like "it's a lot more complicated than that" from coworkers who knew them back then.  But nothing ever comes of it.  The two don't even part with a hug. 

Two gay teases in one episode. 

4. AZ Nude Men featured this shot of a guy with his dick out, probably prosthetic.  He is Ian Stanley, playing The Kraken, maybe a sports star, on Episode 1.4 on of the medical drama The Pitt.  

I hate medical dramas -- who wants to watch people dying? -- but I fast-forwarded through Episode 1.4, with various patients dying, being told that they're dying, and having medical emergencies.

Finally we get to the Kraken.  He's having a seizure, so four doctors and nurses hold him down while Whitaker  (Gerran Howell) jabs him with an injection.  And gets peed on, har har.  We never even see the Kraken's face. 

I guess that doesn't count as queerbaiting.  Maybe it's penis-baiting?

5.  Taj Speights.  The Kraken is supposed to appear in three episodes, so I fast-forwarded through Episode 1.5 of The Pitt.  He's not there, but one scene features swishy, femme-voiced college guy Tag Speights, whom the doctors all know and love, dropping by.  

After excessive hugging and everyone telling him how wonderful he is, the head doc asks "Are you looking for ROBBIE? "   Must be his boyfriend.

"No. We were going to go to the jazz festival together, but I decided to ditch him and go with a friend instead."  

"A friend!!!!! What's HER name???", they ask, high-fiving and congratulating each other, absurdly jublilant.  He says "Leah."

Wait -- they can't be celebrating because they're so relieved to discover that he's straight -- they immediately assumed that the "friend" was a girl, not a boy?   So if they already knew he was a femme straight guy, why the intense celebration?  

Still, making him all femme and pretending that he had a boyfriend named Robbie is a blatant gay tease.

More after the break