Javier & Javier

Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.

I saw in some tumblr account a question about Javier Calvo (Fer in Física o Química). The question was if he and Javier Ambrossi (another actor) is dating. The answer was no, because Javier Calvo is not gay and that they are just friends and working together. Eh, they have bought a dog and are doing everything together so I believe they are... And also, I saw a clip where Javier Calvo called Javier Ambrossi amore so I really think they are. FYI.

A little bit more "retro": This Life

I have to be honest. Lately I haven't felt like watching much. I am watching the upcoming episodes of Degrassi, General Hospital and Larias, but I just don't feel like catching up with Verbotene Liebe, Hollyoaks, Eastenders and Days. And if I don't watch much, I don't have as much to blog about. But I can't neglect my readers so I will recommend yet another series, and that is one of my favourites: This Life.

The This Life cast.

This Life was aired 1996-1997 and was about five 20 something friends who shared living i London. In the beginning, all of them was working with law something. And it was great. A good plot and great actors. I mean, Jack Davenport and Andrew Lincoln. What's not to like?

Jason Hughes as Warren Jones.

And of course, there was a couple of gay characters. In series 1, Warren Jones was a regular. He was, if I can remember it right, a bit of a closetered gay guy. Warren was played by Jason Hughes, and yes, it is the same guy that is helping Inspector Barnaby sloving murders in Midsomer.

Ramon Tikaram as Ferdinand "Ferdy" Garcia.

At some point, Warren hooks up with Ferdinand "Ferdy" Garcia (Ramon Tikaram). Ferdy has a girlfriend but apparently likes boys as well. But it doesn't end well and Warren leaves the series and Ferdy moves in to the house and becomes a regular. And some fun facts: Ramon Tikaram who plays Ferdy is also the actor who plays Amira, Syeds wife, in Eastenders. he is a bad ass homophobe. But Ferdy on his hand, hooks up with Lenny, played by Tony Curran, who is one of my favourite actors (I have many) and that is always a pleasure to watch.

I really think you should see This Life, because it's a joy! I haven't found This Life somewhere online, but you can buy it on Play.com, Amazon and Ebay. It is well worth it!

A little bit of retro: Jack and Doug

The cast of Dawson's Creek.

When I was 15 years old Dawson's Creek happened. And it was amazing! I loved all the characters (especially Pacey) and all the actors and I recognized myself in all the characters problems and I guess I wanted to live in Capeside and hang out with the gang. My family though, they thought the dialogue was way to mature for 16 year olds. I didn't agree. Mostly of stubbornness. But I loved in anyway.

Andie and Jack McPhee.

In the second season Jack and Andie McPhee showed up. The most loveable characters, except for Pacey, in the series. I actually never liked Dawson and Joey. Jen was alright. But Andie was fun and Jack was gay. But we didn't know that back then, because he dated Joey. One relationship doomed to fail. But Jack and Joey was actually the first couple in the series to have sex if I don't remember it wrong. And actually, not everything was great with the series. The drama and shenanigans about sex was really not believable. I was a teenager back then and I remember it as you started dating, snogging and then yu got horny and had sex. No one never talked so much about having sex before having it! And in the later seasons I actually got bored. Especially when they move from Capeside and started university. So I stopped watching.

But later, my friend Karin told me about the last season. She told me, and now there's a spoiler alert, Jen dies, Joey and Pacey end up together (yay!) and also, Jack and Doug end up together! Double-yay!

Kerr Smith as Jack McPhee.

Ok, we have to rewind a bit. So, Jack McPhee is gay. After a fling with Joey, he comes out and he is dating some various guys through the seasons. Ethan, Tobey, Eric, David... I cannot remember a single one of them. But I do remember Doug!

Dylan Neal as Doug Witter.

Officer Doug Witter is the older brother of Pacey who is a bit of a bully. A homophobic bully. Pacey on his hand, thinks that Doug is gay and is giving him hell about that. Doug denies that, very furiously. But I always suspected that he was a very closeted gay guy. And I was right. And I always saw a spark and was hoping for Jack and Doug to get together.

Jack and Doug. At the beech. Finally!

So Karin told me that Jack and Doug ended up together. But this was in 2003. There was no Netflix or Pirate Bay in 2003 in my world at least, so I had to just live with the pleased knowledge that Jack and Doug ended up together. But later in the 00's Youtube happened and thank gods for that! Youtube made it possible me and averyone else who got tired of Dawson's Creek's splendidness to watch the very nice, but short, love storyline of Jack and Doug. And it was very cute. And it actually made me wanting to watch the entire Dawson's Creek again. Maybe it makes me feel young again. Or very old...

Degrassi

Eric Osborne as Miles Hollingsworth & Lyle Lettau as Tristan Milligan.

Since I'm in a period of wanting to watch new storylines I started another. I started watching the Tristan and Miles (Triles) storyline from the canadian series Degrassi, or Degrassi: the next generation as it was called up to the ninth season. The series is about the Degrassi Community school, so it is about young kids. I might not be the target group of that kind of series anymore, but if there is a gay couple you ca count me in. The Degrassi lovebirds are Tristan Milligan (Lyle Lettau) who is a very blond openly gay teenager who just started dating his friend Miles Hollingsworth (Eric Osborne) who is not openly gay. But they are open about their relationship so I guess Miles is a pansexual. I think it is very sympathetically with pansexuals. I really think we all are pansexuals when it comes to the crunch. And Miles and Tristan are sweet as cotton candy, so I really do recommend that storyline. I recommend all gay storylines actually. Even the boring and unhappy ones. We all do need a little bit of gay love in our lives.

Shorties

Lately I haven't been so keen on watching slow soap operas where it takes forever just to get to the first kiss, so I have been pausing Verbotene Liebe, Hollyoaks, Days of our lives and Eastenders. Instead of slow soap operas I felt like watching relatively short stories with an end, either because it's the end of a season or the end of the series. So this passed week I have completed two series.

Brent Antonello as Jude Kincade and Adam Senn as Zero.

In the second season of the VHI basketball drama Hit the floor there is one gay (Jude) and one bisexual (Zero) character. The characters Jude and Zero develops some kind of secret relationship in the seond half of seasn two, and we can guess that there will be further development in season 3, because there will be a season 3. But I can't really understand how Hit the floor can get a third season when In the Flesh still hasn't been renewed. Ok, there is a difference between BBC and VH1, but I am really glad that someone has cut the Zero and Jude parts out of the series because it seems really boring and crappy. I mean, basket ball. There is , according to me, nothing that is interesting enough to make a drama series about it. I know that One Tree Hill did it, but honestly, averything about the basketball was really boring. But I think that the gay storyline has potential.

Keller & Beecher.

After finishing Hit the floor I watched some fanvids from Sanne121993 on youtube and then I got reminded of Keller and Beecher from the old prison drama Oz. I never watched Oz when it was still aired, but both my bf of the time and my brother watched it so I had seen some parts with the couple. Ok, it is a prison drama, there is a lot of boy on boy action, along with a lot of violence, a lot of rapes and a lot of brutality, but this still is a very beautiful love story. I kind of fell in love with Keller and Beecher. And I realized that following one storyline of Oz was enough for me. If you love the series, you kind of love it feeling bit sick and having a lot of angst at the same time. But Chris Keller (Christopher Meloni) and Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen) are really cute in a brutal way and you can't really get enough of them. I don't want to spoil it for you, but I can say that it ends in a typical way for a gay storyline. But after watching Keller and Beecher from Oz I got some cravings for watching more with these actors. Maybe I should start with the episode of SVU with them both starring?