"Dante's Cove" Recaps: Episode 301It this really how lesbians act? Really? — Out on the beach, Michelle runs into Brit and her compressed air tank. She's either getting ready to go scuba diving or she's going to make some balloon animals for Dante's Cove's homeless children. Oh wait. The only children here are at the gym or getting their backs waxed. They hug. Brit gives Michelle the once-over and says, "You look great!" She says she thought Michelle was home with her folks. Michelle smiles but doesn't tell her about the carnage.
Just then, Elena shows up. Brit introduces them, failing to mention that she and Michelle once had a little thing, pre-tsunami. Elena doesn't need any backstory and looks threatened anyway, because she's a lesbian. After about five seconds, it gets uncomfortable.
Brit apologizes for the whole "my girl," thing but Elena claims it's all good. Elena takes her tank down to the water's edge while Brit watches Michelle work her way across the sand. Uh huh. Warnings go unheeded — "Force of the moon, revise. Force of the sun, reverse. Forces of Tresum …" Diana is standing on a rock in the dark with her arms in the air. Griff interrupts her and orders her to stop or she shall be excommunicated. She tells him to go stick his excommunication somewhere — the forces of Tresum come from the sun, moon, stars and green clovers. It's magically delicious. Griff does not suffer scoffers lightly. He raises his arms and fires dual beams of Tresum mojo at Diana. She falls to the grass, powerless. Diana starts to bawl like a baby and collapses, face down in the dirt.
Back at H2Eau, Marco tries desperately to tell Grace about the dark forces he feels in his mood ring. She says in her best bitchtastic dismissiness, "I don't have time for the petty problems of little men," and shrugs him off. Grace sets the bar for all other divas. Marco calls Bro and gets his machine. He leaves a message: He's coming over. Out on the beach, something is following Marco. "I know what you are! Others will know too!" he says. He takes three clumsy steps and falls in the sand. A dark figure descends on him. There's a scream. Marco is suddenly covered in blood. That was fast.
It's Michelle. Her eyes are crazy. She's snarling. She smears blood on her face. Midwesterners — what are ya gonna do? Next time on Dante's Cove: Grace finally believes Marco's warning. Michelle and Diana form an unholy bond. Griff encourages Bro to not be such an uptight weirdo. The shirt shipment from the mainland has still not arrived. Submitted by on Wed, 2007-10-24 23:31. |
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Dante's C*ck
I wish I could say it's so bad it's good, but it's not.
I agree...THE LAIR is a better show but that ain't saying much. It's a true sign of how bad a show is when I actually pity the person who had to do a multi-page synopsis of it. The acting in Dante's Cove is horrible which wouldn't be too bad if the scripts were better. At least then we could call it campy and fun...but together they are both just bad. I mean...there's one scene where an "actor" is getting "sucked" away while screaming a long "Nooooooo." and they couldn't even put him on a cart out of camera view...you can actually tell he's walking backwards while stretching his arm out grabbing at the person he's being "pulled" from...it's LOL funny.
Reichen....oh, Reichen. He'll forever have a job in the gay community but it isn't for his talent, it's for his name. He's bad. Very very bad. I think they actually avoided giving him dialogue. I think he looks just fine naked, the people who watched the show with me thought he had a featureless ass.
I still watch the show...hoping, praying for something to come out of it. I'm a big fan of the genre and I'd love to see it done well with a gay or homoerotic element. I agree that the guys are attractive but not hot enough to have to suffer through the show. If all I wanted was eye candy I'd tape a few soaps and veg out to them.
Highlights. What year is this?
I didn't see anything good on The Lair
They had some better actors (like that guy who was in Shortbus), but he never had a good nude scene, and never much of a chance to show his acting range. They hired Colton Ford for just about every episode and he kept his clothes on -- who wants to see that? The guy who played the lead character and the guy who played his boyfriend were handsome and were OK actors, but again, not enough nudity or passion. The only good thing about the show was the surprise at the end of the finale.
And way too much time spent on Brad Benton with the bad dye job.
Results Here
Here! is a channel with a small budget. Dante's Cove requires a much larger budget than it has to give the story justice. Twenty years from now people will have a kinder attitude toward Dante's Cove and other Here! and Logo show knowing that the channels were in their infancy.
Don't tell anyone I watch this
Way harsh.
I haven't seen the season premier yet, but it doesn't sound like the show improved much.I thought season 2 was better than season 1, so I was hoping it would get even better.Gjersey, I don't think the actors on the show "think they're really acting" as you put it.I've said this before.If you've heard interviews with the cast they don't take it that seriously.
They even make fun of it a little bit themselves in the podcasts.GayTVluver, did you really have a Dante's cove screening party?That must have been fun.I can't wait to see Riechen's ass.I wouldn't say The lair is better though.I think if they're not even then Dante's cove pulls ahead for me.....if for no other reason than they have more racial diversity.(I was really glad they added Jenny and Jensen)
As for being in their infancy, I think you're being pretty optimistic there, Evan.As i've said in my threads, I don't know if these niche companies are ever going to pull in the revenue it takes to give a show like Dante's cove the budget it needs to make it a better quality show.Oh, and about Reichen always having a job in the gay community, You're right about that, GayTVluver.He will because he's the total package:beautiful, smart, athletic, an ex-service member, and an out activist.He's a role model and guys like him aren't exactly falling off of trees.
I also would encourage you not to judge his acting ability on what you see on this show.I've seen a few of the actors on the show act way better in other things, so it's not just him.
I wouldn't call it a screening party...
...we were sitting around and nothing was on Tivo so we flipped to On Demand to see what was on hereTV...noticed Dante's Cove was now available and watched it for laughs. We may do it again because it was fun to sit and make fun of it the entire 53 minutes.
It's amazing how the gay community can turn out such amazing things...works of art, community movements...entire fashion trends...but we have such crap shows on our networks.
Bullish
A really good show will turn around the channel (remember Queer Eye). Logo and Here! being premium channels have a limited the audience. Right when Queer Eye came on Bravo became part of my basic cable. I don't see Logo or Here! becoming part of basic cable soon. I think doing reality shows and documentaries are a good way to save money and develop talent.
I really would like to see a rodeo reality show where wanna-be gay bull riders learn their skills.
Logo is part of my basic cable
Heads Up
Thanks for telling me. I don't get Logo on my basic cable (from Comcast) so I'll have to look into it.
Charlie David
I liked it