![]() ![]() “Don’t cancel me,” he tells us, tongue firmly in cheek. Less than a minute into the opening sequence, Booster refers to Pride And Prejudice, his source material, as “hetero nonsense.” As this story’s Lizzie Bennet stand-in, gay Brooklynite Noah continues to narrate: he shudders at the “boyfriend energy” of the naked man in his bed whose name clearly eludes him, then calls his chosen family, the group of friends on their annual Fire Island vacation, the F-word (the one reserved for gays). It doesn’t take long for Fire Island, Joel Kim Booster’s instant-classic Jane Austen riff, to stake its claim in the romantic comedy canon - or rather, defiantly outside of it. From left: Torian Miller, Bowen Yang, Margaret Cho, Thomas Matos, and Joel Kim Booster in Fire Island Image: Courtesy Searchlight Pictures
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