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If Ep 4 is 'heaven', I'm not ready for Ep 5 'hell' 🥲

It is difficult for a queer Catholic to grow up surrounded by guilt and religious/societal expectations. Basically Little Mermaid.

Gay and non-practicing Catholic here who went to an all-boys Catholic school. I accepted I was not straight early on in high school, but I swiftly realized that my identity and practices would be incompatible with the institution of Catholicism, so rather than live in hypocrisy, I broke away and became a theist/cultural catholic instead.

Although I did not enter a minor seminary (like I assume St. Magdalene College is), this show is pretty much 100% accurate. Faith and guilt are the central currencies of Catholicism, and you can see this play out in Tanrak with painfully exquisite clarity. I am a 'Barth', and growing up I've seen dozens of 'Tanraks'.

(If you believe that homosexuality does not exist in the priesthood, boy do I have a bridge to sell you.)

I hate Barth for inventing Tic-Tac-Thigh, I could only wish I was as smooth as him when I was his age

Guilt is a Catholic specialty. Ideally it should be addressed with equanimity, but in practice Catholics often wildly resonate between repression and indulgence.

(I am not saying this is exclusive to Catholics.)

I guess August and Augar are fraternal twins? Quite a diverse genetic pool their family has.

I really hope that opening was a fake out, I'm already getting YNEH flashbacks.

I can't recall what is/are the actual, factual reason/s why they're marketed as a bromance and not a BL couple? I mean either way I'm liking the show so far, so does it really matter to me?

No, but I'm a nosy b*tch. Who is also forgetful.

5 eps only? I would have preferred more episodes so that G4 could "live" inside their characters more, and to give us more space to take in and breathe the setting and the story.

Also props to Krist's turn as a character actor in this series, the oily face sells the unpleasantness really well

I swear I've seen Pete's house before, this is GMMTV's set for "average income home"... I just can't remember the show...

Oh no, Justin is so cute, his ship will wreck the main ship for me

I'm really only trying this out because of Poon. It's strange seeing Ohm pair up with anyone who's not Fluke, but I guess it's been a hot minute since UWMA

I would like to file a miscasting complaint. Est is too distracting for a bodyguard.

I bounced off FUTS and NLMG pretty quickly, let's see if third time's the charm.

[Ep 4] Okay I'm starting to get irritated, is Khem just going to be a damsel-in-distress/twink-in-trouble for the entire series? Will he ever get agency?

[Ep 1 - late to the party, I know] FirstOne looks like Mix's younger brother or cousin haha

The one comment here explaining why it can't get listed in MDL was deleted so I still have no idea what's really going on here.

Is Shane on the spectrum? Or is this more of a STEM (Shane) meets non-STEM (Kit) story?

Classic case of unreliable narrator. This series is actually a narrated flashback by Per and Tar, so they're deliberately glossing over how *they* fell in love. 🤡