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Steel River (Web Series)

By Golu
Oh God!! This was such a waste of time. I mean, I knew that this one is going to be bad, based on my historical experiences, but who knew that this would be so unbelievably bad. 13 episodes of sheer torture that lasts for almost 15-20 minutes, this sho made no sense. Sure, they have chosen some very hot looking black men, but after a while I could barely differentiate one from the other. It didn't help that the so called acing and dialogues were bad throughout and consistently. Also son't ask me why the name of this show? I have no freakin' idea.

This is what the official synopsis of the show says on imdb: "Steel River, set in Atlanta Georgia, captures different emotions that are seen through the eyes of four gay men, stifled, damned, immune, and jaded. Some of the poignant disasters in their lives come from the idea of what they thought they were going to become. Life as you well no, does not always work the way that you wanted." How we wish the reality was at least a little close to this. In the first episode we see a guy called Dexter sending flowers to this singer Terry (who I am not sure are together or not) and in the very next scene Dexter is jerking off to porn leading to an argument with Terry. The second episodes shows totally new characters. Apparently platonic straight friends Will and Addison just kissed. Addison then confesses his love for Will. Will blows a gasket. They kiss again. We urethan back to Terry and his issues with his manager who has his hands on Terry kissing Dexter (an image not good for public). He is stressed being a "gay" singer. More stuff happens, more characters show up and we get a couple raunchy and disgusting-to-look-at sex scenes with women. Oddly enough, its NOT the women that makes them disgusting, its the yucky men. More characters talk about relationships.

The sex scenes are forced throughout the show in pretty much every episode. In one episode one of the guy hots on his sister's boyfriend and has full on sex in bathroom while she is in living room. There are full on dick shots and all. I was like what the hell is going on here. The acting is consistently bad and there is like no head or tail to the show. It's very few times that I am struggling to explain what I have seen. I have seen and reviewed a few other Signal23 shows and at least they are consistent in being watched. The question is why am I not learning my lesson and still keep going back to some of these to torture myself and waste my time watching and then reviewing them her.  The half star here is only for the good looking cast. Rest everything is a major thumbs down. (0.5/10)
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