Don't call me "bro": Berlanti (left) & Baitz. Photo: Getty Images.
In my rush to crown Greg Berlanti the gay king of television, I overlooked a, um, few things:
> The equally gay, insanely smart and adorable creator of Brothers & Sisters, Jon Robin Baitz, writes an insanely smart and adorable blog over at TV Guide. His predictions for the future of the show include:
Kevin Walker, about whom we get somany letters, will continue to enrage TV-viewing homophobes who seem to yearn for the blandly conforming 1950s, when being gay was, to most of America, a shameful and terrible secret. He will also continue to search for love and intimacy like any other member of the Walker tribe, regardless of sexual orientation. He will continue to be drawn to beauty, both inner and outer, and will continue to be essentially confused and lonely, and uncertain about what he wants.
> Building on the popularity (well, at least in the past) of the Grey's Anatomy writers' blog, Brothers & Sisters now has its own. Sherri Cooper and David Marshall Grant, the scribes behind last night's ep, weigh in today.
> Could Rob Lowe be any cuter? He's like the less gay, more Republican brother of Sam Seaborn, and his ability to crack a joke in last night's episode about a sex tape accidentally spliced into a family tribute -- "I'm in politics, I've pretty much seen everything" -- was especially delicious.
> The only way he could be cuter is if he were Sally Field, who at 60 is absolutely every bit as winsome as she was playing Gidget at 19. She climbed the shelves of a pantry in a dress and heels last night like an overeager monkey, just as fearless as ever (there's a reason she was voted Class Clown of her high school). Best TV mom around.
> Unsurprisingly, the show's been nommed for a GLAAD award. By my calculation it's the only series on network TV (other than the long-gone witchy women on Buffy) where a queer gets to actually make out with a same-sexed on-screen partner in multiple episodes -- not to mention casually kiss the boy who brings him coffee in bed. It's so weirdly seductively realistic that I almost forgot TV rarely works that way.
> But wait, there's more! Please, please, please watch this clip of some movie called Very Annie-Mary, starring Rachel Griffiths, Matthew Rhys and Ioan Gruffudd. Matthew Rhys is very Welsh, very gay, and sings a song from Annie Get Your Gun. It's like a lost episode of the UK Queer as Folk. Don't watch this somewhere you can't fall out of your chair laughing. [Thanks J]
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