Earlier today, we told you about Fire Island, Logo’s upcoming reality show that’s hoping to fill the Finding Prince Charming-sized hole in nobody’s heart.
Well, it took precious little time for Twitter to sink its sharp teeth into news of the show, and let it suffice to say it’s been an apoplectic, irretrievably bitchy afternoon ever since word got out.
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Not to say it hasn’t been entertaining. Take a look at a few handpicked Tweets — there are a lot to choose from — and please vote which one you think is the most inexcusably bitched-out.
Let us begin.
Me calling LOGO about 'Fire Island' pic.twitter.com/u1bPwO6y1t
— Russell Falcon (@RussellFalcon) March 6, 2017
Logo's "Fire Island" is yet another artistic instillation in the "how insufferable does a hot guy need to be before he's unfuckable?" genre
— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) March 6, 2017
Why on earth would anyone watch Fire Island on a Drag-Race-free Logo, when you could just look at pictures of those men being silent?
— itsonlyzach (@itsonlyzach) March 6, 2017
We cut off Robert Sepulveda's head, and six even more horrible heads grew back. https://t.co/I6FQiUda5r
— sam carb (@samcorb) March 6, 2017
Sam Smith didn't bravely win the first Oscar ever for a gay man so that Logo could do a crap show about Fire Island trash.
— Alexander M4Milton ? (@thedealwithalex) March 6, 2017
@KellyRipa this fire island nonsense is an outrage!
— Mike Dreyden (@mikedreyden) March 6, 2017
Fire Island is trending. (EDM starts playing) That's my jam!#fireisland #GayMikePence #SessionsIsCute
— Gay Mike Pence (@Gay_Mike_Pence) March 6, 2017
I haven’t been on Twitter all day and the first thing I saw was that Fire Island trailer so see y’all in another 24 hours after I burn sage
— Petty Buckley (@chocobohomo) March 6, 2017
@bkkirby Fun fact: One of the guys from the Fire Island cast sold me his old Kindle e-reader a few years ago!
— Michael Varrati (@MichaelVarrati) March 6, 2017
College Twink Jon would not have fit in on Fire Island: The Series. pic.twitter.com/hbG3Pp5SqL
— Jonathon Pernisek ? (@jonpernisek) March 6, 2017
genie: 1 wish
me: one of the Fire Island gays gets brutally murdered and the show takes a true crime turn
— Nathan Carroll (@nnnathancarroll) March 6, 2017
I don't wanna talk about Fire Island by slut shaming or fem shaming or age shaming or obviously smell bad shaming or trying too hard shaming
— Todd Masterson (@Toddmasterson) March 6, 2017
Maybe Fire Island will have a mid-season, Lord of the Flies twist.
— Annie Goolahee (@originalsettler) March 6, 2017
And what is Katie’s problem here? How rude.
Spread the word, folks! @VTShorebirds is now hiring piping plover field technicians for this summer on Fire Island! https://t.co/mItcv3FprZ pic.twitter.com/4XsWfWp8fL
— Katie Walker (@KatieM_Walker) March 3, 2017
BriBri
Perfectly swallow for the same…….
elemirion
So their doing a show about Fire Island, why the hell does everyone have to be such a bitch about it, When will gay men learn to love each other rather than hate on each other. We have enough enemies who want to tear us apart, why are we doing it from within????
ChrisK
I’m kind of neutral on it. Logo is getting wise at marketing though.
enlightenone
Since when is being critical of a shallow, poorly conceived show, think “Looking” is “bitchy” and “ripping apart” – melodramatic, on your part? It is policies and laws that have the potential to “rip apart” the gay community!
charlietex
You obviously didn’t watch the trailer where these guys are true bitches to one another. I am so sick of fake brainless guys who can’t seem to self promote enough. This show would raise my blood pressure.
MarionPaige
Queerty, which allows comments, is posting comments from twitter on something that Queerty has a post on.
Captain Obvious
I guess no one ever told these queens they can turn the channel and just not watch shows they don’t like rather than bitching about them. I could see if they were doing something offensive but it’s one of the few networks [poorly] attempting to cater to us.
Without viewership they can’t make original content. Suffer through the bad to get to the good. You think black shows just happened? We had to sit through raw sewage to get to good shows. The creators of shows had to insert drama into comedies(all we were allowed for many decades) to make shows that we could actually be entertained by.
Keep bashing the network and they’ll just toss their hands up in the air. What network will you turn to then?
Personally I don’t need a gay network but this isn’t the way to get programming you actually like. Pay your dues or move on. You’re lucky it’s not cheesy comedies to give you something to really be mad about.
Evji108
If those queens can bitch on that nasty Fire Island trailer, us queens can bitch on Queerty’s comment section. Bitch.
RoughRugger
The one consistently watchable piece of original programming Logo has aired in its 11 years was RPDR, and now even that’s moving to VH1.
Sorry (not sorry) but we shouldn’t have to sit through years of “sewage” to get good shows. If Logo expects the LGBT community to watch its shit, its shit should be watchable, not the umpteenth retread of the same tired gay stereotypes we’ve been trying to rise above. If I wanna see Fire Island circuit clones being bitchy to each other, guess what? I’ll go to Fire Island.
Countervail
“Suffer through the bad?”
Now that Drag Race is movie to VH1, exactly what else on the channel is “good?”
Sorry, but I don’t know why every show marketed to the gay community is about as trashy as the a-gays programming this crap in the first place. Something good on these networks is the exception.
truckproductions
man you complainers need to grow up. we don’t expect every show straight people produce to be oscar worthy.. why does it matter that there is a salacious show about gays? get over yourselves.
Giuseppe
It matters that it’s AWFUL, and that was just the trailer. Bitchy gay men lisping their way through another crappy, reality TV show, sets the rest of the gay community back 50yrs!
Prax07
Logo isn’t on my tier at comcast, so I luckily won’t be tempted to tune in to this garbage.
whatsaywhat
Imagine if one of them were a bit fat.
Or maybe even just like normal & chill… Could you even IMAGINE!?
Evji108
It wouldn’t work, because muscle queens wouldn’t speak to a fat person.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
One of them is a bit fat and hairy compared to the rest.
Kangol
One is a bit plump and very hairy. I.e., a bear. Look at the one on the far left.
lauraspencer
I’ve been going to Fire Island for years and this group does not represent the typical Fire Island home. The Pines where this series is set is much older and professional. The guys in this series would never be able to afford the house unless there was a production company paying the location fee. This is pure TV fodder. There are a lot of great guys and homes on Fire Island that they didn’t have to stage it so much for TV.
jasentylar
Lovelovelove the gaymikepence one. DEAD
Giuseppe
LOLOLOLOLOL…NO! Stereotypically embarrassing.
mujerado
What were you people expecting? It’s a “reality” show, on LOGO, for heaven’s sake. Of COURSE they’re bitchy to each other. What else would you have expected? Shut up and watch the eye candy or change the channel to something you like. Jeez!
enlightenone
“…reality” isn’t “bitchy,” unless you are a shallow, bitchy queen. Thankfully, I don’t know any, at least, not a part of my social world!!
Sluggo2007
Logo is supposed to be for the gay community. It’s actually an embarrassment to the gay community. No wonder so many people hate us. There is nothing worthwhile to watch on this station and I haven’t tuned in for years now.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
The truth is it’s no better or worse than straight reality TV shows. Watch it or don’t and shut up about it.
DCguy
This is what you get when you have a gay channel without any gay people making decisions.
LOGO is the same channel that bought syndicated episodes of “16 and Pregnant” and thought that a show about straight girls accidentally getting knocked up was somehow part of the lgbt experience.
Now you have a show that goes overboard on the vapid shallow stereotype. Anybody notice how Logo NEVER seems to run any shows about lgbts with real jobs?
He BGB
Those tweets were funny especially the one where they hope one of the guys gets murdered to make the show more interesting. Not that I’m hoping for murder but it’s funny. I am so glad I’m old and impotent and don’t have to deal with the mess of being cute anymore.
He BGB
When I was on Fire Island years ago (in the 1800s) everyone was in cruise mode and bitchy if you even looked at their prospect. No thanks.
Kangol
I was there years ago too–not the 1800s, more like the early 2000s–and it was diverse (though the Pines & Cherry Grove are the main distinction), lots of cute hot men, some bitchy, some not, and it was much more fun than I imagined. I say let the show run and if you don’t like the representations, don’t watch or write Logo and tell them why you think it’s awful. Since the four on the right are cute and the white bear also is kind of appealing I bet it’ll get more than a few viewers.
ggore
After watching this trailer, my mind goes straight back to the previous Logo Original show “A-List: Dallas” and the bitchy, queeny, and generally VERY annoying people on that show. This new thing is nothing different at all, and is right there in the “Real Housewives of…..” vein of being only about people yelling at each other and every single stereotype you can imagine. I will NOT be watching. I am SO sick of this type of show, whether it be on Logo or Bravo or History or whatever.
Mmmrrrggglll
Isn’t this like all the other reality shows? Is there something wrong with this, unless you generally don’t like reality shows, in which case, change the channel. Having gay people on tv is a good thing. Real gay people, not actors. Don’t jack it up with your snobbish superiority.