"Best Foot Forward": Boy negotiates middle school with a prosthetic leg, a hung dad, a bodybuilder brother, a gay buddy, and no annoying girl-craziness

 

We just dumped Peacock in favor of Apple Plus, so now we can watch Best Foot Forward (2022), based on childhood experiences of  "Paralympian, comedian, author, disability advocate, and Halloween enthusiast" Joshua Sundquist.  

Focus character Josh has been home schooled since he lost his left leg at age nine, but he finally convinces his parents to allow him to start seventh grade in public school.  He faces the standard junior high problems of friends, math tests, soccer practice, movie night, and school dances.

Josh is played by Logan Marmino, fifteen years old in 2025 and thinking about college.  Maybe Johns Hopkins?

He's an accomplished athlete, competing in Paralympics track and high school basketball and baseball.  Plus surfing and skateboarding. 

When showrunner Joshua Sundquist invited him to audition for Best Foot Forward, he had no acting experience, not even a school play.  And he doesn't really seem interested in an acting career -- he hasn't appeared in anything since. Sports and disability activism keep him busy.

While Josh is experiencing the joys and hassles of junior high, Dad and Mom (Stephen Schneider, left, Joy Suprano) have B plots of their own, like when they tried to order two pizzas, and accidentally ordered twenty. "Sometimes older people can't see the order screen very well," the delivery guy explains, to Mom's consternation.

Stephen Schneider may be best known for a five-minute long n*de fight scene in The Righteous Gemstones, but he has 37 acting credits on the IMDB, including three tv series reviewed here: You're the Worst, Broad City. and Nobody Wants This.

Josh's younger brother Matt (Roger Dale Floyd) mostly tries to help, or feels left out when Josh gets all of the attention.

Roger Dale Floyd, 13 years old in 2025, has appeared in The Walking Dead, Doctor Sleep, Greenland, and Stranger Things.  He is a junior bodybuilder, interested in promoting fitness among teens and tweens. 

In Greenland (2020), Roger and his Mom and Dad (Gerard Butler, left) must flee cross-country to safety after a comet-Apocalypse.  Whoops, they forgot to bring his insulin. 

Josh makes two friends, Kyle (Peyton Jackson, left) and Gabriella (Trinity Jo-Li Bliss).

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Elliott Fullam: Gay superfan, horror movie scream queen, big dick. But is a big dick and nice abs enough? With Charlie's chest and Mason's butt

 

Having finished School Spirits' nonsensical third season, we're running low on options for evening tv watching (my partner will only agree to watch the shows I review here if they get an A).  So we're rewatching The Other Two (2019-2023), about a boy (Case Walker, left) who achieves sudden fame as a pop singer named ChaseDreams, to the dismay of his older brother and sister, struggling actor Carey (Drew Tarver) and failed dancer Brooke.   

Left: Drew hooks up in the shower.

In Episode 1.10 (2019), ChaseDreams performs at MTV Video Music Awards.  Outside, girl fans scream from behind a barricade -- wait, there's one boy, holding up a poster from Chase's song "My Brother's Gay, and That's Ok."  He tries to get the attention of the gay brother, but Carey is  too upset over his own crisis to notice. 

A gay fan?  Tell me more.

The cast list identifies him as a Superfan, played by 14-year old Elliott Fullam. 

As of this writing, Elliott is 21.  Was this an unusual guest spot, or does he play a lot of gay characters?  

Time to do some research.

Elliott grew up in Budd Lake, New Jersey, a resort town about an hour's drive from Manhattan.  His father, Justin, is an artist and punk rocker who runs the Little Punk People podcast along with his wife Diane.   

Elliott began assisting at age nine, and soon was conducting interviews of his own, with punk celebrities Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead), Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things), Jay Mews (from Jay and Silent Bob), and Scott Ian of the band Anthrax.  He drew 300,000 subscribers to the website.

This led him to some commercials, and a role in Instinct (2018).  The title is a misdirection; it's about a crime novelist (Alan Cummings) who solves crimes.  Elliott played the young version.

In Terrifier 2 (2022): Art the Evil Clown, killed at the end of the original, is resurrected and invades a Halloween party, to slice up some teenagers.  Elliott plays the focus girl's little brother Jonathan, an Art the Clown superfan.  

Art is resurrected again in Terrifier 3 (2024), and sets about harassing Jonathan, now a college student (no girlfriend: he might be gay).  This time the hapless superfan is beheaded. Mason Mecartea (left), playing Jonathan's dorm mate, show his chest and butt while  being eviscerated with a chainsaw. 

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Luke Blumm: Femme boy survives the Nazis, a cult, and Maine, but not a homophobic Mom. With his twink physique and some co-star cocks

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Sonny Kendall: Obviously gay, too young for nude photos, so his EastEnder teen had better pay off. With Boreanaz and twink cocks

 

 Sonny Kendall (the short one) appeared on the teen idol website flexing and hugging guys.  These two are nearly holding hands.

As of this writing, he is 16 years old, so I won't be looking for nude  photos (beefcake is ok).   

I've checked his social media, and there's no question that he's gay. 

Left: Sonny's date starts hugging before they even get a chance to order.  

So this profile will just answer Question #1: Any gay roles?

Sonny was born in East London in 2010.  He was attending the Rhodes Theatre School in Romford in 2021, when he was cast in the soap EastEnders.

Whoops, it looks like the EastEnders gig is Sonny's only on-screen role.  But it has gotten him nominations for Best Young Performer at the British Soap Awards in 2022 and 2025,  Rising Star at the National Television Awards (2023), and Favourite Young Actor at the TV Times Awards.  So let's check it out.

The East End, north of the Thames and east of the Tower, is known for its Cockney rhyming slang, poverty, crime, and industrial blight.  This is where Jack the Ripper found  his victims, and Oscar Wilde found his rentboys.  

In the 1990s, my boyfriend Lane and I went to the World Congress of LGBT Jews, held in a hotel on the Isle of Dogs, East London.  It was dreadful. 

The soap opera EastEnders, on since 1985, features the  impoverished, the down-and-out, and the criminal .  We don't see British versions of the Lords of One Life to Live or the Quartermaines of General Hospital.  At least, not many of them.

It is known for "difficult," controversial plot arcs, involving murder, rape, drug addiction, and human trafficking.  And LGBT people.  The first male same-sex kiss on British tv, between boyfriends Colin and Guido (Michael Cashman, Nicholas Donovan), in 1987.   It didn't happen on American tv until 2003.

Left: When you search for nude photos of Nicholas Donovan, this one appears.  I think it's David Boreanaz.

Sonny's character, Tommy Moon, is the son of Kat and Alfie Moon (Shane Ritchie), who have a tumultuous relationship, with various infidelities, a brain tumor, prostate cancer. an injury in a fire, and having twin sons named Bert and Ernie.   Oh, and Tommy turns out to be the biological son of Alfie's cousin, the villainous Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd, left).

Tommy is born in 2010, and starts out life in a controversial plotline about being switched with a dead baby.  It takes a few plot twists for Alfie and Kat to realize that their kid is actually alive, and get him back.  He lives through more murders, diseases, and infidelities, until 2014 , when the parents win the lottery and get the heck out of the East End.

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