Not all gay men are wired that way, as Yang’s more romantically inclined (and less abdominally defined) character woefully reminds him. Doubling as narrator, Booster immediately challenges Austen’s infamous opener, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,” kicking last night’s fling out of bed and rushing to meet his friends (Matt Rogers, Tomás Matos, Torian Miller and Yang) at the ferry.īooster plays a hunky heartbreaker whose way of dealing with New York’s daunting dating scene is to move fast and then move on: Score before the dude in question gives him reason to reconsider the conquest - like turning out to be a Republican, or failing to catch a “RuPaul’s Drag Race” reference. The laughs start right out of the gate, as an off-key gay men’s chorus performs the studio’s fanfare.
Centered on the friendship between Noah (Booster) and bestie Howie (“Saturday Night Live” breakout Bowen Yang), the film’s novelty is further reinforced by the diverse cast and the sight of Searchlight Pictures’ logo (the project was originally intended as a series for Quibi, which Searchlight refashioned into a feature when the short-form streamer went under, debuting the film on Hulu).
