Hulu's six-episode Wreck, not to be confused with the Lost parody Wrecked, has a plot icon with two boy-girl couples, and a plot synopsis about Jamie (Oscar Kennedy) and Vivian, no doubt his Love Interest investigating dark secrets on a cruise ship. But Episode 5 is entitled "Needle in a Gay Stack," so there must be gay characters around somewhere. I reviewed the first episode.
Scene 1: A girl's butt swimming underwater. Ugh, a dreadful beginning. She puts on a towel, stares in disgust at herself in the mirror, and then argues with stalking "I can't live without you!" ex-boyfriend Danny (Jack Rowan).
Left: Jack Rowan's butt
Scene 2: Fielding Ex-Boyfriend Danny's hysterical texts, the girl walks through a gigantic shopping mall and some corridors. Suddenly a knife-wielding person in a duck costume starts chasing her. Wait -- is this a comedy?
Surprise -- we're on a gigantic cruise ship -- I count at least ten decks.
After running and hiding for a long time, she yells "You can't have me!" and jumps overboard!
Scene 3: Three months later, the ship is docked. Pretending to be someone named Cormac, Jamie signs his contract and then joins the others for an informational video: girls in bikinis telling us "Welcome to Velorum, where your dreams set sail." UghTheir supervisors are introduced: Staff Captain Karen, Second Officer Beaker, Third Officer Sam Rhodes (Louis Boyer), who gets gazed at by some girls. By the way, the ship symbol is a duck carrying a surf board.
Left: Louis Boyer's butt and back dick.
Grand tour: apparently there are 2,000 employees? Crew mess hall, Little Ducks Soft Play Palace, theater, officer's mess hall, gym. promenade. Everything is horribly regimented and authoritarian. This is definitely not your grandpa's Love Boat.
Jamie/Cormac couples-up with Vivian, no doubt his Love Interest, Two other recruits couple up: Jerome (Diego Andres) and Lauren.
The entertainment crew, five girls and a boy, snob past in slow motion. Everyone gawks. Staff Captain Karen says that they're busy rehearsing "Apocalypse Wow. Wow Wow." Ok, so it's a comedy. You'd never know that from the somber, deadly-serious plot synopsis.
Asked if he's dating anyone, Jamie/Cormac says "No. Sheffield's gay scene isn't exactly flourishing." A gay protagonist, outed at Minute 10! So Vivian is not his Love Interest after all.
More after the break