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Last time we saw Marshall, he was cruising a public park with his new classmate BFF Lionel, who was introducing him to the world of what it means to be a sex-craving gay being. After watching this week’s episode, we can conclude it was really just a set up for an even better plot twist. (Spoilers ahead.)
Marshall and Lionel are going to give the “lovers” thing a try.
Watching Lionel lie his way through re-telling his fake romantic adventure with the older gent he met in the park, we had a feeling the story was a fake. As he later admits to Marsh, it is. And that’s when their relationship takes a turn.
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If you’ve been watching the show, you’ll know Lionel entered Marshal’s life at school, and the twosome couldn’t have been bigger opposites. They may have both been gay and fey, but they had completely different approaches to being gay. And while we were supposed to assume it was Lionel who was the confident gay young person, it turns out he’s as scared of his lifestyle as Marshall is.
Watching these two characters develop is fantastic television. And we were just as forlorn as you when, in the final scene in the clip, Marshal sees his biggest ally — his sister Kate, played by the enrapturing Brie Larson — plotting her escape from mama Tara’s crazytown, leaving Marsh behind to fend for himself.
Chris
Interesting development!
James Davis
LOVE this show.
7
D’awwww, that was so sweet!
Chris
@7: The kiss on the eyes 🙂
Jesseboy
One of the greatest shows. It kind of lost me for a bit at the start of Season 2, but it’s gotten progressively stronger as it continues. Can’t wait to see what happens next!
Aaron in Honolulu
You had me at kissing eye lids. I’m melting…
Brandon h
I’m sorry but who the fuck wants their eyelids kissed? That’s just sounds awkward.
And I find the Lionel kid to be as annoying as hell with the drugs and the public sex and assumptions of what it is to be gay. And what was with that “radical queer activist” noise? He’s reinforced more stereotypes than Paul lynde.
Marsh could have done so much better, he needs someone with class.
Dick
Kissing on the eyes is a reference from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
D'oh, The Magnificent
@Brandon h: Is your mother okay? Apparently, you were born from her as a fully formed adult. So that must have been a difficult birth.
And you. Perfect you. Never having to deal with those pesky teenage years where you do a lot of stupid shit. You experiment. You figure stuff out. No, you were perfect. ust as you are. awww. At least in your own mind anyway.
The rest of us weren’t quite so lucky.
Ephram
That was sweeter than sweet. Not sugary sweet but sweet like when you have a tummy ache and your mom takes care of you all day sweet.
Sceth
I would dearly like some of that.