It certainly has A24 vibes. This indie landed on Hulu, surprisingly with audio description from neon, the studio with the most “A24 vibes”. It’s a pandemic comedy about a gay man who takes in his male model cousin during the pandemic while the young man heals from a scooter accident. Of course, this sets all the friends around him into their own levels of “OMG you’re living with a male model?” In addition to making his ex curious about this model. To make things funnier, our lead is also really vigilant about contamination during the pandemic, and is trying to keep people out and disinfect everything,
It is an interesting indie that has some ideas that work well, but it does come across as sort of a first swing at bat. Some directors end up with their first swing being their only swing, and some have a profound directorial debut. This feels like something some people would have seen at Sundance, and no one really would have hated on it, but it also didn’t end up on the top of the pile, so it just quietly drifted to streaming hoping to be found.
I was one of the few people who just thought Dicks The musical last year was hilarious. I laughed all the way through that, and it pushes some serious boundaries. I kind of wanted more from Stress Positions, which had all the makings of being subversive and divisive, but for the most part shot for charming and funny enough.
Final Grade: B-
