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"Keeping Company": Insurance agents fight psycho-slasher, with gay characters, William Russ's backside, and Adam Devine just for fun


 Keeping Company (2021), on Paramount Plus, not to be confused with the other Keeping Company (2021), has a promo that looks very much like an insurance agent trying to sell to a gay couple.  Naw -- impossible.  The studio suits would never allow it.  They must be brothers or something.

Still, it has gay performer Chris Estrada in a minor role, so it's worth checking out.




Scene 1
: A drug dealer waits on a lonely corner. Shy  eyeglassed Lucas (Jacob Grodnik) drives by, locks him in the trunk, and returns to his middle-class neighborhood.  He glances at a photo of the Girl (heterosexual identity established at minute 1.48), opens the trunk, and does something off-camera to the drug dealer.

Scene 2: District attorney Glen Garry (William Russ, left) films a re-election commercial, promising to reduce the "all time high" crime rate.  




Ok, the crime rate in the U.S. is at a 30-year low, and you don't elect district attorneys

Left: William Russ's backside.











The commercial is playing at the home of a newlywed couple (John Milhiser, Bryan Safi), listening to an insurance spiel.

They did it!  They really did it!  The insurance agents are trying to sell to a gay couple,  with absolutely no discomfort or any indication that this is unusual.  They are newlyweds like any other newlyweds!

More after the break