This week, we'll show the complete first season of a sexy horror
series about supernatural events in the lives of a gay couple and
their hot-looking friends.
*Dante’s Cove* — Episodes 1 2 (i.e., the complete first season)
*Running time:* 84 minutes + 106 minutes
*Dante's Cove* is an American LGBT-oriented horror television show.
The series airs on *here!*, a premium gay-oriented network. Created by
Michael Costanza and directed by Sam Irvin, Dante's Cove combines
elements of the horror and soap opera genres in telling the story of
Kevin (Gregory Michael) and Toby (Charlie David), a young couple
seeking to be together and overcome the dark mystical forces that
conspire to separate them. The show debuted in 2005 to a mixed
critical reception.
Gay-interest *Instinct* magazine, called the series a guilty pleasure
TV hit...with...camp goodness and sexy soap appeal.
*Viewer review 1:* Dante's Cove explores a witch named Grace played
over the friggin top by Demonic Toys veteran Tracy Scoggins. She
curses her fiancée Ambrocious who is played by the semi-attractive
William Gregory Lee after he is found getting done in the backdoor by
the butler. She traps him in what looks like an SM room and leaves
him there for centuries. The only thing that can break his curse is a
kiss from a young man. Enter the happy over-sexed couple Kevin and
Toby. Toby is moving back to Dante’s Cove for some strange reason and
wants Kevin to go with him. But Kevin is not out and Toby has trust
issues with him because of past relationships. So they have a big
argument. Kevin goes home, gets slapped by his stepfather and rushes
to Toby in Dante's Cove.
There is mostly gay guy sex and Gregory Michael whom plays Kevin and
Charlie David whom plays Toby have great bodies and genuinely good
chemistry even if they can't act worth a damn. Hotties fill out the
rest of the cast. And it picks up in its second half as an intriguing
supernatural soap opear. There are sordid backstories, murder,
cheating, and past relationships mixed in with some witchcraft, etc.
It's all pretty interesting. And it's all campy and trashy as hell. It
indulges in its ridiculousness and has a great time doing it. As you
will too when viewing it. Check it out!
*Review 2:* Make no mistake: Dante's Cove is targeted primarily for
the gay male audience. Its young, cute, hunky and beautiful male
actors aren't cast by accident. While their acting doesn't quite hit
the mark, the main characters, Kevin and Toby, do well, and I suspect
may improve further in the remaining segments. In their scenes
together, they represent a plausible young gay couple in
love–refreshing and what most gay (and straight) people need to see.
Sure, the great bodies and handsome faces are wonderful, but we all
want love, and this show provides the chance to vicariously jump head
first into more than just sex.\
Roll all of the show's elements together, and you have an
entertaining, albeit exaggerated plot, that adheres to the show's
preternatural basis. Dante's Cove is not about BEING gay, but more
pointedly that gay people find themselves in everyday AND
extraordinary situations--trying to navigate life's labyrinth and
survive (Wow! exactly like straight people do!). *(Reviews and info
extracted from IMDB and Wikipedia)*
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One intermission during which light refreshments will be served.
*First screening begins at 5.00 p.m.*
Venue: The Humsafar Trust's Drop-in Centre, 4th floor, Municipal
Transit Building (Vakola Municipal Market Building), Near Raheja Point
and Vakola Masjid, Santacruz (East), Mumbai.
Getting there: It's approximately minimum fare by auto-rickshaw from
Santacruz station (East). You could also take routes 311 or 313. The
same routes also operate from Kurla (West) station.
Space courtesy: The Humsafar Trust.
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