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Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Unpacking and Appreciating FIRE ISLAND

Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Tom Lorenzo

Entertainment News, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Tv & Film, News

4.5780 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

T Lo review the queer rom-com FIRE ISLAND and explain not only why the film is so fun, but how it honors history and shows an intelligent and insightful understanding of gay male social spaces, both the toxic parts and the life-affirming parts, while showing a wide range of experience/perspectives in a sex-positive, non-judgmental way.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're Tomo Lorenzo.

0:23.6

And this is the pop style opinion fest.

0:26.0

Hello, Kittins. Welcome back to another edition of the PSO. I am the teen-y-lo-T-Lo, Tom Fitzgerald, and I'm here with the Lo and Uteal, Lorenzo Marzo Marcosmo. The Hook, boo.

0:33.6

Hello!

0:34.6

Yes, it is June, it is sunny. It is warm out.

0:38.1

It is Friday.

0:39.1

It is Pride Month.

0:41.0

So we're going to have a gay old podcast.

0:44.4

Of course, every podcast we have is a gay old podcast.

0:46.8

Pretty much.

0:47.4

This podcast is going to be a brief one.

0:49.5

We're just going to talk specifically about the gayest movie of the year, which is Fire Island, which

0:56.2

dropped on Hulu last week, just in time for Pride Month. It is a gay rom-com with an almost

1:03.6

exclusively queer cast of queer men and women, well, one woman. In fact, we're going to get

1:10.0

into a little bit of the off-screen sort of conversation,

1:15.2

discourse about the movie that got a little dumb this week regarding the presence of women

1:19.3

in the film.

1:21.8

Really isn't a spoiler.

1:23.7

I don't think anybody here has to worry about spoilers.

1:26.0

It's a rom-com.

1:26.9

How do you think it's going to end?

1:28.0

Right. And it's based very openly based on, in fact, the film references it constantly,

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