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About Him : Season 1 [Web Series]

I wasn't aware of Signal 23 TV and a huge range of LGBt shows that they have on their website catering to primarily men of colour. But as you know I am always looking at newer content, I was quite excited to see the first season of this show. The show came with 13 episodes total out of which the first 12 were about 20-25 minutes each and the season finale was 90 minutes. Yes, almost the duration of one single film.

The story is actually simple and straight forward. The central character is Damien, who is spending his last summer at home before going to college. He is gay but has never been with a man and is completely obsessed with his older brother's best friend Vincent. He is shocked when Vincent makes a move on Damien one night saying he is bisexual and suddenly Damien gets his first blowjob. Damien, now even more obsessed with Vincent misses him but Vincent is dealing with his own shit with mother finding out about him. Meanwhile, Damien's distant cousin arrives in town and they tease, flirt and eventually have sex with each other. We also meet Justin, Damien's only friend from school and next thing we know is that they are also both trying to get into each other's pants. There are a few threesome's between the 4 of these guys, while Damien constantly wondering how come suddenly this summer his dick has seen all the action more than his lifetime. Slowly, he starts reducing his obsession with Vincent and sees Justin as someone who he could connect with. The series ends with Damien going to the same college as Vincent and his brother and new beginnings for him.

The story is simple but is stretched far too much. Since the story is set in 90s, we do see a lot of history and facts and events that happened during this time and how it affected the black community in US. But these scenes stretch far too long. From acting perspective, Damien is the weakest link of the series. Every other actor is pretty decent but all Damien does is roll his eyes constantly and that gets very very annoying after a while. Also the constant voice over of what Damien is thinking is a gaping hole. Conversation become so awkward from a viewers point of view, because Damien is too busy thinking about an appropriate response and the makers make sure we get to hear all that. Vincent was pretty hot and sexy and was quite a decent actor and so was Justin. There was ample sex in the series and sometimes with full view of hard dicks, but clearly that was to attract attention to gay audience and to attract them. All the men in the show were pretty hot. Vincent's over-the-top mother was hysterical and not in a good way. I wish that whole episode of Vincent was handled better but it was made like a bad horror movie.

Anyway, you wont be disappointed by the season but be ready to keep fast forwarding some scenes because they really don't add much to the story but is just there to fill the duration of run time. (5/10)

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