BROS
Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Bowen Yang
The list of mainstream Hollywood studio films centred on gay characters remains a short one that’s dominated by stories of coming out. That’s not surprising — this milestone, after all, is a process heavy on dramatic tension, and a crossover point at which straight audiences begin to understand life on the other side — but it can be exhausting territory to treats gay identification as a fait accompli, and moves straight on to other everyday conflicts and contrasts within our community. This is, so to speak, an out-and-out romcom, written in the light, crowd-pleasing spirit of the genre’s 90s heyday, and hinging on an age-old, opposites-attract dynamic that acquires new relevance when applied to different masculine archetypes.
