But then Michael’s friend, the other token gay at work, drags him to jock night at a bar. Work situates Michael’s sense of escapism within that weird early 2000s’ vibe where the influx of reality TV had everyone caught between unrealistic expectations about life. His expertise, though, is more Felicity and reality show listicles. Reared on happy endings in shows featuring almost exclusively heterosexual couples, he has some cognitive dissonance with the fact that he’s a catch. Michael, however, has a weird relationship with romance thanks to his work at TV Guide. Thanks to Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge, respectively, Michael and Kit’s all-too-short romance is a touching, funny, and frankly humane look at love and life. The film adapts Michael Ausiello’s memoir of the same name, which recounts his relationship with his late husband, Kit.
The bittersweet inevitability of love found and lost too soon hangs over the Christmas weepie Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies. Happiness and love, fleeting as they may be, are welcome in whatever dose-brief or long-one can get. However, the inevitability of dying isn’t always linked to the tragedy that too often defines queer narratives. We at least get to go along for the ride. I can hardly complain, since Black characters always die first. It’s no spoiler alert that gay people always die at the end of movies.
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