Amy, I cannot believe you missed it. It is almost comical how your recording cut off at the exact wrong moment.

You say comical, I say tragic ...

I'm not sure I necessarily buy Ethan suddenly macking on a guy, either, but I'm willing to handwave. Dorian is clearly fine with hedonism of all stripes, so that's good.

Showtime re-airs, yes? Worth looking for a showing you can catch the last few minutes of, I'd say.

Dorian has a very "wait, what? Well, okay then" reaction. I'm not sure what Ethan's motivation is, there was a lot of "you're pretending to be something you're not" in that conversation, and he did say he wanted to be someone else before they left the theater - I hope I'm not disappointed when his story becomes clearer, because the mystery is really interesting

"Lannister in the front, Dothraki in the back" [link]

Oh, Amy, that's tragic.

I've seen it now! And already started writing the fic, to be honest.

Whew!

I watched most of The Normal Heart yesterday, and really liked it. My sister said "Ruffalo/Bomer, how can you skip that?" but it was so much more. Oh, the anger, the pain--any AIDS-related movie set in the early 80s is not going to be a mood lifter, but I thought this was well done, and Ruffalo's character especially was interesting and interestingly handled.

I'd give it a rec.

Although they give AIDS stats after the movie ends, they don't talk about improvements in treatment--I know there's a clear message they're trying to get across, but I do think that only scrolling the horror is...well, there's so much AIDS horror, I guess.

I missed the start of it, but I have set it to record the whole thing. Maybe it's even a downloader (does HBO Go take stuff off? I could keep watching it there...).

I think it was undersold. I've seen billboards for it, but no promos on HBO that told me what it was going to be about or even when it was set. I don't think that's all on me--I see a lot of HBO promos.

Is Jim Parsons gay? I counted three actors, if he is, that I think/know are queer--Bomer, BD Wong, and him. I can see how this must have been an attractive story for someone to whom it's so integrally relevant (although, really, all of us--just in the early 80s, NSM).

Oh! And for "adapted from a play", finally, I was completely unable to tell. It didn't have any of the stiffness or awkwardness that the translation often comes with.

Have a look.

Is Jim Parsons gay?

Yep.

does HBO Go take stuff off?

HBO Go almost never takes anything down. I've been watching stuff from ten years ago.