“Interested In” is a new coming-of-age queer web series created by Michael Witkes that will premiere on Dekkoo later this month.
The comedy series follows Parker (played by Witkes), a gay college student from Philadelphia, as he comes to terms with being queer all the while navigating a world of casual hookups and dating apps.
Witkes tells Huffington Post the series offers “fresh commentary on contemporary gay dating and culture.”
But unlike similar shows like Showtime’s “Queer as Folk” or HBO’s “Looking”, Witkes says “Interested In” will offer a more “realistic life after the closet.”
One major distinction is that it only casts queer actors to play queer roles. In other words: None of this gay-for-pay nonsense.
“It’s important that queer people tell queer stories,” he explains, “and that we give these opportunities to actors that have the same lived experiences since we’re often cut out of straight roles.”
“Interested In” has been screened at film festivals in Palm Springs, California, and San Antonio, Texas, among other cities, where it has been received warmly. Season one hits Dekkoo on March 20.
Watch the trailer below.
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iamru2
Angry SJW article about a mixed race couple coming in 3 2 1 …
decampbell
Not sure where you’re going with that comment. Why would there be SJW anger at an interracial couple?
Kangol
You sound really confused, and again spewing right-wing nonsense like “SJW.” What are you babbling about?
OrchidIslander
Do you know what a SJW is?
enniofficial
Interesting enough, you were right lol. I see nothing but complaints on Twitter about interracial couples
nm4047
I would suggest your comment is the very thing you are saying will happen. By simply making such a statement falls into the category of a social justice warrior doing their thing.
Dlp
Why are is the article taking weird jabs at Looking. Noone in that series was in the closet and like all the gays we’re gay except two love interests
D_Bro
Actually, that is not correct. One of the leads, Frankie J. Alvarez who played Augustin, was straight. I was an extra on an episode and danced with him. Really nice guy.
Aromaeus
Agreed about the Looking potshots. There were like 2 straight actors? It was also heavily underappreciated as a show.
Zambos271
I enjoyed Looking. I liked the characters and loved Richie. Dom was probably my favorite since he was an older gay man who enjoyed life and realized he needed to make some changes in his life. Scott Bacula was hot and liked him with Dom. Also, Jonathan’s butt is perfection.
Josh447
Loved that show. Will give this one a shot but it will have to really try to be better than Looking.
Mr-DJ
But will it be yet another “stereotype fest”?
Vince
Looking and QAF offered a realistic out of the closet look and so what if not all of them were gay. Wasn’t something that I even noticed.
jeff1370
Come on, looking was not good. And I have very low standards.
decampbell
Agreed. Looking was crap.
Vince
“in your opinion”. Many did think it was good.
startenout
“In YOUR opinion” Many thought Looking was non-representational crap. Myself included
Blackceo
Looking was god awful the first season. It found its legs (sort of) by the end of the second season to make it somewhat interesting, but by that time it was too late and got the ax. The movie felt rushed because it seemed like they had to wrap everyone’s storyline up, but I’m just glad whats his face ended up with Richie.
OzJosh
Looking wasn’t merely “not good”. It was deeply dull, and annoying when it wasn’t just dull. Shallow unlikeable characters. Rambling, pointless plots. And a view of gays and the gay community that was impossible to relate to, much less care about. It was clearly a flop, both in terms of the aspirations for it and the audience reaction. Comparing any news series to Looking is pretty much damning it from the outset. And the trailer does seem to promise something similarly vacuous.
Kangol
It was as dull as an old butter knife.
Rock-N-RollHS
Didn’t you know liberals can’t speak for others! This fag loved looking. Shoot me hard, fast, and mean.
jpcolter
In your opinion, maybe, but a lot of people do not agree with you including me.
Ashke113
@GetOffMyInternet – “please die already”? What are you 12.
PRdad57
Stereotypical gay twink comes to the city to use Grindr and sleep his way around until he gets too old and moves on to Scruff. Nothing new to see here.
TheBigOne
🙂 That made me LOL
crazycorgi
For me Looking was a good show. I suppose that I am in the minority in that opinion because I never feel the need to judge a show and bitch about it because “it doesn’t represent me”! If I did that I would never watch anything because nobody is going to make a show about a small town in Ohio. I also thought the whole entire “not enough diversity” was a load of crap too. If it were to have a member of every single race the cast would number in the hundreds.
I’m sure that this show will have it’s own bunch of criticizers because these days you can’t make something about the lives of gay people unless you represent every single type of person out there.
startenout
Actually there are only like 4 major “races” in the world: Black, White, Asian and Hispanic (and that’s reeeeally a subsection of White, since, ya know…Spain.). I guess we could include South Asian and indigenous Americans and Australians as their own thing, if you like, but that’s still only 7, so by a major cast change since they had more than 7 people. Are you thinking of nationalities when you say hundreds?
Kangol
@crazycorgi, Your privilege is blaring. Thanks, but no thanks. And there have been shows about small towns full of white people. Lots of shows like that over the years.
@Startenout, “Hispanic” is not a “race”; Hispanics/Latinxs can be of any race.
D_Bro
4 Races of Humans
Caucasoid (White) race.
Negroid (Black) race.
Mongoloid (Oriental/ Amerindian) race. (Native Americans are considered part of this race)
Australoid (Australian Aborigine and Papuan) race.
“Hispanic” is not a race. It is a mix of Caucasoid and Mongoloid.
Vince
@Kangol. Thanks PC Police. I don’t think there’s anyone here yet you haven’t accused of being a racist.
OrchidIslander
@Vince, I’m quite certain that Kangol can respond for himself, but, within this thread, where did he call someone a racist?
Kangol
@Vince, actually I haven’t “accused’ anyone who isn’t a racist of being a racist, but since the shoes fit in your case, wear them proudly. Your white identity politics and privilege badge is clear from the other side of the globe.
A_latin_1
There is only one race of humans, homo sapiens sapiens.
supernaut
You lost me at web series. Looking was great, I miss the hell out of it.
ShowMeGuy
Just call it “the greatest show that nobody will see” and be done with it.
And LOOKING didn’t stand a chance because viewers were still high from the experience that was QAF….and LOOKING had no intention of being the same type of show. When you take off the viewing filter which is QAF and then watch LOOKING……the show was amazing.
dman3379
An odd comparison, this show is about struggling with identity while being young. QAF and Looking were about adult gay men who are already established and accepted who they are, it’s dumb to compare this to the other two imo.
Brian
I know I was hoping for Jonathan Groff to end up alone at the end of Looking. I have a feeling that’s not what the writers intended. If ever there was a character that needed a punch in the face…
mtmslg
I know what an HBO (Looking) is. I know what a SHOWTIME (QAF) is. What the [email protected] is a Dekkoo??
nm4047
it’s (another) streaming provider, but focus on gay theme productions.
joeboyle49
YES WHAT THE HECK IS A DEKKOO?
strix1
Another short lived streaming service…looks like HereTV. $9.99/mo…yeah, no thanks.