Male nudity, gay romance, and queer codes in movies and television, especially "The Righteous Gemstones"
There's a guy in Arkansas: Eight Arkansan hunks playing chess, throwing an axe, and letting it all hang out
"Join Kelvin's God Squad": Recruitment video gives us the dirt on the muscle cult, with a lot of muscles and a dick or two
In Righteous Gemstones Season 2, Kelvin starts a God Squad, musclemen who perform strength-stunts "to serve the Lord." But their goals are far more complex: they want to establish a new society based on homoerotic desire, a cult of the penis that excludes not only "females," but emotional connections, romantic love, and family. The plan starts to go wrong almost immediately, due both to Kelvin's tyrannical leadership style and the difficulty of excluding romantic partnerships from the new world.
Scene 3: The men work out with wooden barbells. One says: "I want to be a warrior for the Lord." Keefe: "You might be a perfect candidate for the God Squad."
Scene 4: The men climb a wooden ladder and sniff fresh vegetables. Kelvin: "Nature is the Lord's gym." Kelvin has a huge house, easily big enough for twelve men, but he wants to emphasize that he is the leader, structurally "above them." Plus nature represents the pre-Fall Eden, before Adam succumbed to the temptations of "the female."
Shot 5: Two guys grin at each other. Keefe: "We will welcome you into our workouts as if we were friends." Not a lot of friendships are forged in the God Squad camp. There is no pairing-off. The guys are atomized, each competing with the others.
Shot 7: Keefe: "You will also learn to accept the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into your heart, and what happens when you accept him, Jericho? Do the tit thing."
Jericho flexes his nipples. Big deal -- any man with a moderate physique can do that. But apparently we need to know about Kelvin's interest in men's chests.
More muscles and maybe a hidden cock or two after the break
Did the "Solar Opposites Valentine's Day Special" really change everything?
Discussing the Solar Opposites Valentine's Day Special, showrunner Josh Bycel noted that holiday specials are usually stand-alone episodes, with no plot or character development: "So we love the idea of [this one] tricking people into realizing like, ‘Oh my God, the end of the episode is actually the biggest thing that’s ever happened to these characters short of landing on Earth!"
Co-creator Mike McMahon adds: "it really changes the dynamic of the characters."
Left: Mike McMahon.
Spoiler alert: Korvo and Terry, have sex.
Solar Opposites is an animated comedy about a group of aliens from the doomed planet Schlorp who crash-land on Earth: team leader Korvo, the "let's do this by the books" micro-manager; the effervescent goofball Terry; their teenage replicants Yumyulack and Jesse, and the Pupa. Korvo and Terry find each other's habits annoying, and often argue about how assimilated they should become.
In the special, the group tries to order cold, wet tuna in a restaurant, only to discover that it's Valentine's Day, so only romantic dinners are available. Should they come back tomorrow, or use their alien science to eliminate romantic love from the world?
Terry asks: "Couldn't we love each other?"
No, all Schlorpians have is teammate affinity. But maybe that will be enough. They have to try.
Terry hates teammate affinity: "It's so annoying that I miss you uncontrollably when you leave the room."
Korvo agrees. He hates "the way it makes the prickly bumps on my arms stand up when you bend over to pick something up from the floor."
Um..guys, that's erotic and romantic desire.....
They get it on.