However, Emmett turns him down when Drew reveals he still intends to marry Sierra and keep the affair up. Drew breaks off the affair, but later seeks to resume it, admitting to missing Emmett. Unfortunately, they run into Drew's fiancée who is delighted to see Emmett and brings them to the locker room. Despite an agreement that Emmett must never show up at Drew's games, Emmett accompanies Ted to the Ironmen stadium. Drew even allows Emmett to persuade him to model in a Brown Athletics underwear campaign for Brian's agency Kinnetik. Over time, however, his feelings for Emmett become less purely sexual and more romantic. The next day, when Emmett visits Drew's house to pick up his check, Drew becomes aggressively flirtatious and the two have sex on the living room floor.Īlthough Drew and Emmett continue the affair, Drew does not identify as gay, instead thinking of himself as just a man who occasionally enjoys sex with other men (or possibly on the down-low). At the party Drew and his teammates make disparaging homophobic remarks about Emmett and a waiter, and Emmett confronts him about it. He was introduced in season four when he hired Emmett Honeycutt to cater the party for his engagement to his girlfriend, Sierra. So yeah, a decent homage to its UK parent, the US QaF is well worth a look.Drew Boyd is the quarterback of the fictional Pittsburgh Ironmen. And, of course, the PFLAG mum is just all kinds of awesome! She really made the show, I think it ran a risk of falling flat without her. And the US version certainly had a few standout comedy moments - the giant adult toy fight in season one, the scene where the committee visits the two lesbians to discuss Brians' award for saving Justin from a homophobic attack and interrupts an intimate moment, later finding an 'aid' under the sofa cushion. Soooooo, overall, a good show and thoroughly enjoyable, so long as you let yourself go with the flow and don't try too much to compare the two.
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I'm just glad they didn't try to recreate Stuart's coming out speech, that's a classic piece of TV and it seems the US showrunners realised that, not touching it with a barge pole. And some scenes in the US version struggle against the UK original (Justin's confrontation with his teacher pales when held up to the original scene with Nathan and his teacher).
But I guess that's to be expected when you transform a short drama into something closer to a soap opera. Having so far only seen the first three seasons of the US show, I can't comment on it in its entirety, but what I have seen has been enjoyable, if not quite as intense as the original - some of the plots that were nice and tight in the UK version seem a little strung out in this version. Even with the plethora of US shows on our screens, I struggle occasionally. Happily, I was proved wrong, even if a couple of the US accents are nigh-on impenetrable compared to the far simpler UK accents. As a BIG fan of the UK original, I approached this US remake with a sense of trepidation.
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