Oh, Vicious!

Oh, Matt, I’m gonna forget that you said you didn’t like Mid Century Modern. And I’m gonna do that because you’re absolutely right about Vicious. It's a fantastic series and one worth visiting. At least twice. Yeah, it’s that layered.

For some gay men, the couple in Vicious rings very familiar, yet somehow ‘new’. That kind of gay men (witty, smart, cutting, knowledgeable, with a penchant for expansive gestures and owners of an even bigger heart even when they try to hide it) feel like people we know.  

I remember when I was a wee gayling, how the 'older' men I met seemed utterly sophisticated, cosmopolitan, cultivated, seasoned. They KNEW of the world and its intricacies and could recite Wilde or talk about music or movies like nobody I knew. They also had the most dangerous wit and would leave anybody panting in psychic pain after three or four well-administered sentences. 

These men in Vicious are now almost lost in time. And we are all the worse for of it.

XOXO

P.S. You can catch  ALL of Vicious episodes on Tubi. I don't have cable and I refuse to pay for streaming, so I watch TV and movies using Tubi, Hoopla and Pluto. All free. So what if I have to put up with a commercial or two? I am not that spoiled even though I may have borrowed a password or two from a friend very often.

P.P.S. Yes, those are Derek Jacobi and Sir Ian McKellen.