Break out the modesty pouches, "Dante's Cove" is returning!

When I first found out about Dante's Cove, my part of Miami didn't get here! so I bought three season's on DVD.  And I enjoyed the first season - maybe because it was fresh and different, and had so much flesh.

Seasons 2 & 3 were just awful. I don't know how else to describe them.  It was so over the top silly.  I found myself fast forwarding through like snicks said - on the DVD box sets.  And the sex toned down - I've yet to be as, umm, affected, as I was by the original sex scene, back in the 1800's or whatever that Tracey Scoggin's character walks in on to start the whole mess.  The rest is just *meh* somehow.  Maybe it was just shock factor.

As for the fact that the main cast never shows the goods - that does tick me off - they all knew what they were signing up for.  None of them get to act like they aren't doing soft-core porn and get all modest about showing pickle.  That, and I can never understand why they have straight actors on the show - not that I condone discriminating against hetero actors, but please!  The show requires minimal acting talent, mostly a sense of camp and a great body - surely they could do it with an all gay cast? 

I hope Toby's hair doesnt look as bad as it did in Season 3, it was such a turn off... he looked like Juan Gabriel.

I agree that the series has been a combination of rubbish and poor acting since the beginning, they sort of picked it up on the second season with its "hardly noticeable" raise of budget. But it has some enjoyable parts, Tovin showed love like no other couple I had seen on TV, and I dont mean the sex parts, mostly the chemistry between them, don't get me started about Tracy Scoggins, I'm just amazed at how someone can age that well. 

I'll definitively watch this next season. But let's hope for the best and expect the worse. 

Dante's Cove is undeniably a guilty pleasure, but it deserves credit for doing exactly what it sets out to do. It provides lots of eye candy, along with  some completely nonsensical scripts and storylines (perfect for honing viewer snark skills.) Plus, there's a nice mix of decent actors chewing the scenery alongside S&M (Stand & Model) actors who couldn't portray a convincing emotion if they were actually begging for their lives. If Here!TV had it on a weekly schedule, I'd wager there'd be Dante's Cove viewing nights at bars, much the way they did for Dynasty back in the 80s.

Now, if they would just cancel that trainwreck of a companion show, The Lair, and move the three decent actors from that show -

Peter Stickles, David Moretti

and Colton Ford -

over to Dante's Cove, I'd be a very happy viewer!

In the press release at the HereTV website, they say that season 4 will be TEN half-hour episodes!  That is quite a jump from the 5-episode runs of the past two seasons!  I wonder if that increase will affect the storytelling at all; with more episodes to work with they may theoretically have less plot holes from having to rush events along at such a brisk pace.  We'll see.

I can't wait to find out who all will be returning for the new season, given that in the last season finale, at least 4 of the regulars had been killed or banished to other dimensions.  Hopefully we'll get at least some of them back.

Oh, and a quick correction--the actor with Richen Lehmkuhl is Jon FLEMING not Foster.

i also thought i was the only one fast-forwarding this damn awful series!!! people seemed to really like it.. if not for the "good parts," i wouldn't even bother following the story. i do like fantasy movies but the writing here so god damn awful!!!!

And don't get me started with "The Lair"---- the show is just plain laughable.... i can't even bring myself to buy the second season even if they have "good parts" from start to finish.... it was sooo boring! i mean... can't they weave a really good gay vampire story? the possibilities are endless! why do they have to camp it up? we already have dante's cove for that! can't they give us a gay true blood or a toned down (for budget purposes) "Vampire Chronicles"? or even "Vampire Vows" if Anne Rice's novels are too expensive... THERE ARE SOOOO MANY BRILLIANT GAY AUTHORS OUT THERE!!!! Logo and Here! badly need them!!!!

I like DC, but I can't help but think cutting the indivdual serving sizes in half might be closer to how long it can actually hold my attention, so I'm glad on that front.

And even though it's been made clear to me before that I'm a monority of one, I'm still going to say that I like The Lair.  Yeah, it's even cheesier and dumber and has even worse acting that Dante's Cove, but it also doesn't have it's doomed pretentions; periodically, Dante's Cove seems to think it's buiding a mythology and character arcs and whatnot, and really, IT'S NOT.  The Lair, on the other hand, knows exactly what kind of mind candy it is.  It has a lot more action and quick pacing, and pyrotechnics to distract from its flaws, while Dante's Cove has lots of slow relationship conversations and lengthy technobabble speeches that give my mind an opportunity to wander and realize what junk I'm watching.

Dante's Cove is trash that tries to trick me into thinking I'm watching something with merit; The Lair is unapologetic trash that's just nonstop naked men and monsters to make up for it.  I much prefer the latter; since I was plenty of genuinely good shows, I don't feel the need for my junk viewing to masquerade as anything more.

Season 1 (especially the pilot) was dumb--glad they got rid of that tweaked-out elf-man--he was annoying.  Seasons 2 & 3 were fun--you gotta enjoy it for what it is--trash TV.  Greg Michael is HOT!  Scoggins is the high-priestess of camp (until Thea Gibb came on, anyway, then it was a toss-up)

I think it will be "must-see" if they get the right writers.

The Lair just sucks.  An interesting idea for a plot, but who is writing that crap?

Always need to see more of Colton Ford!