Saturday, June 22, 2024, 1:00 PM, Vogue Theatre • World premiere
(screened with ILY, BYE, which also screens in “Fun in Shorts (2024)”)
also available (separately) in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
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| Best Years |
Troy (Josh Bonzie, pictured) recently moved to Brooklyn with his friend Pat and his then-boyfriend Chance, but Troy and Chance broke up, and haven’t yet post-processed the breakup to see if they might reconcile. Troy is working as a busboy/dishwasher and otherwise moping about the house listening to Enya and making Mickey Mouse pancakes in his underwear. Pat is trying to get a job with the mayor’s re-election campaign. Billie, another tenant in the building who sometimes acts as a proxy for the landlord, buttonholes Troy into helping two new tenants move in, one of whom, Abel, catches Troy’s fancy (shown here is the moment Troy meets Abel). Troy and Abel begin getting to know one another, complicating the “will they or won’t they” reunion with Chance.
Some of the characters, especially the neighbor Billie, are basically non-stop irritating, only rarely to comedic effect. I just don’t find seeing irritating people bickering to be very funny. Also, the first two episodes mostly establish Troy, Pat, Chance, and Billie; they did little to hook the audience, and we don’t even see Abel until episode 3. The series improves from that point forward, with less obnoxo-bickering and more actual characterization. It’s worth sitting through the first two episodes (although I wouldn’t begrude you a bit of fast-forwarding) to get to the better material later in the series. Highly recommended.
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