The premise: Justin Wise (Jonathan Schaech), an ex-Green Beret featured in the 2020 movie Blue Ridge, has returned to his small town to be close to his ex wife and daughter. Their hobby is...murder!
One of the heels (villains) goes backstage, where Promoter Earl (Max Martini) grabs him by the neck: "If you can't stick to the script, I'm not going to stick to the deal."
He rushes out and yells at a male wrestler, "I own you!", fires a female wrestler, and tells another heel, "I would rather die than make a washed-up quitter like you a champion!"
The next day, Janitor Dwayne (Grayson Russell) buffing the floors, and finds...Promoter Earl's body under the ring! Call Miss Marple!
Phone call, and the game is afoot.
Scene 3: At the school, School Administrator gives Justin Wise some heavy-handed plot exposition. Takeaway: all of the wrestlers had keys to the gym and locker room, but nowhere else in the school.
By the way, her son Barry (Christian Finlayson) wants to become a wrestler, but when he tried out, the Promoter yelled at him, called him worthless, and destroyed his confidence.
Justin Wise examins the body (no sense in waiting for the forensics team). Detective RP (Greg Perrow) says that he died of a blow to the head between 10 pm and midnight.
Unfortunately Dwayne the Janitor buffed the entire gym before finding the body, so all of that evidence has vanished. But he remembers the Promoter and a heel character named The Contractor (Michael O'Hearn) arguing: "I got a binding legal contract!" "I don't care, I'm not paying it!"
And the murder weapon is a wrench that The Contractor uses as part of his act. He didn't do it.
He suggests interviewing Dirty Boots McRae, who got into a real argument with Earl yesterday.
Phone call: More clues. The wrench wasn't the murder weapon after all.
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He returned for high school enrolled at the New Mexico School of the Arts. Before graduating, he was in about 20 plays, from Into the Woods to Little Shop of Horrors. He received the National Young Arts Award for theater in 2015.
Next Jasper enrolled at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he appeared in the gay-themed Spring Awakening and Cascarones. He graduated with a BFA in Acting in 2020.
He also took an Introduction to Shakespeare class in the Orkney Islands, which resulted in roles of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Iago in Othello.
Guest spots on tv followed, including episodes of Walker (2021) and Big Sky (2022).
A minor role in How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022): Some environmental activists, including Lukas Gage, Marcus Scribner, and gay actor Forrest Goodluck, plan to blow up a pipeline.
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Prelude: The preteen Benny pauses and gawks at Brendan Fraser's underwear scene in George of the Jungle (1997, but he's watching a DVD later). His sleepover friends don't like it, so he pretends that he doesn't either, and switches to Britney Spears singing "Lucky." A hot lady! They're all thrilled!
Scene 1: The college freshman Benny, who looks way too old for 18, awakens to athletic trophies and his Mom calling him "My perfect boy." She means heterosexual, har har. He climbs out of bed (nice beefcake), announces "I'm Benny, and I love pussy," does push-ups. Benito Skinner was born in 1993, so this must be around 2011.
Dad (Kyle McLachlan, who played a gay guy in Girls) bursts in wanting to toss a football around.
Scene 2: Establishing shot of Yates College, no doubt a combination of Yale and Bates, but actually filmed at the University of Toronto. The show is inspired by Benito's years at Georgetown University.
Mom and Dad drop Benny off at the same moment that Carmen's parents drop her off. (Carmen is played by queer comedian, Wally Baram). Her boyfriend texts: "Sorry about last night. Fell asleep." She meets giggly, vivacious blond Roommate, who enlists a random hot dad to help them carry their new vanity up to their room. Flirting with men to get what you want? Carmen is shocked!
"Dad forced me!"
"Only because you never make a choice of your own!"
Cut to Mom in Bennny's dorm room, complaining that she didn't meet his roommate. "He rows crew, so he has crazy hours." Um...the semester hasn't started yet.
Hug, hug, whimper, out. My parents just dropped me off on the curb and said "Bye! See you at Thanksgiving! Or maybe Christmas. Or...well, we'll call you."
The moment she leaves, Benny grabs his backpack and hustles out of there!
Gabe and his buds note that they are on the football team, and therefore excused from attending all classes permanently.
A girl asks him to take a photo, and the guys howl and congratulate him. "A hot chick has agreed to have s*x with you!" Dude, why are you still closeted? You're at an Ivy League college in 2011! They have a gay group! When I was in college, you would be expelled if they found out you were gay.
He continues to stare longingly at the gay group. The guys smile and wave, and offer him a free condom. The jocks say that it's ok to take a condom from the gays, since he'll need it for s*x with the hot chick tonight.
Head Gay Owen gives him directions to Freshman Orientation. Darn, I thought he bolted out for some interesting reason, like that wasn't really his dorm room. He didn't get the housing deposit in on time, so he'll have to sleep in the library...nope, he was just late.
Whoa, here comes the Boy of His Dreams, walking in slow motion across the quad. Dream Boy Miles is played by Rish Shah, who played a gay guy in "Torch Song Trilogy" but a straight guy in "Ms. Marvel".
"In college you can be whoever you want to be, so everybody tell the person next to you who you want to be."
Instead, Benny and Carmen give their back stories. "I'm from Idaho."
"Idaho? Does anyone actually live in Idaho?" Bigot. "Do they have, like, movie theaters? How many of your cousins have you hooked up with?" That's Kentucky.
But she invites him to a pregame in her dorm room: "A night we won't remember with friends we won't. forgive."
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