Is Lionel from Dear White People hot?

Beautiful face. Haven't seen the show.

Love him. So cute...and then that body!

He needs to have cuter love interests, though.

Yes!

Never going to watch the show because of its title. Nope.

I accidentally FF'd R2. Sorry. Is there anywhere to undo it?

I'm white, and I love this show. Not as good as the movie, but still good. Maybe you should try watching a few episodes. I think it is pretty good at showing different viewpoints and turning some things on its head without losing that it is primarily about black people living in a white world. And the main black female character dates a white guy! I seriously never understood why white people get upset with the title and don't even know what it is in reference to in the show.

Never seen the show but did an image search. Judging from someone photo, the actor is very good looking.

^^ Judging from THIS photo

No idea how that happened.

Nerds are over, OP.

R4 is simple.

R6, "Dear White People" is the name of the Sam character's radio show. The show's okay--watchable enough. As a white person, I find it kind of amusing to see how underwritten the white characters are compared to the black ones. Usually it's the reverse.

Sizzling hot

He's not my type, but he's fairly good looking.

He’s good looking and hides a great body. I find him quite annoying in the show though,and wish the gay character wasn’t so whiny.

The guy who plays Reggie is hot as fuck.

His bod is busting out hot! 🔥

Cute

Yes he's very cute! Can't wait for season 3.

Spoilers for Dear White People’s third season below.

“Yes, we have the chance to reinvent human sexuality without puritanical oversight. But it’s perfectly valid to, you know, have a boyfriend and be basic,” says D’Unte, a new character on the third season of Netflix’s Dear White People. He says this while dressed in a skimpy crystal singlet, surrounded by fetishwear-clad men in the middle of an underground gay sex party. Meanwhile, Lionel Higgins, the show’s central queer character, stands by awkwardly, underdressed in a pair of ill-fitting boxer shorts and calf-length white socks.

It’s a fitting example of what the show manages to do with Lionel’s story in its third season. While season one found the aspiring writer running away from his sexuality and season two found him exploring it within the confines of a monogamous relationship, season three finds Lionel, now single, experimenting with other parts of queer culture. And because he’s so green, Lionel sees everything with fresh eyes, making him an ideal audience surrogate.

It’s a particularly interesting approach, especially since audience surrogates in the past have just about always been straight. In Adam, an upcoming film directed by Transparent veteran Rhys Ernst, the titular character, a heterosexual cisgender male, pretends to be a trans man after his crush mistakes him for one during their initial meet-cute. As an outsider in the very queer world that he’s placed himself into, Adam is used as a guide for a presumably straight, cis audience. As he learns to navigate this new environment, so too does the viewer — at least that’s the intent. Adam’s central conceit is problematic, indeed, but it also just makes for a boring film. Watching it earlier this year, I couldn’t help but wish that I was watching something focused on the queer background characters instead. Adam himself was the least interesting part. Which is why Dear White People’s third season seems so refreshing. Through Lionel, show creator Justin Simien finds a way to give the audience a relatively uninformed surrogate that will help guide them into a new world of underground queer culture. But because Lionel is actually gay, the show sidesteps the need to show queer culture through a straight lens.

This season is at least partially framed around Lionel’s creation of “Chester,” a secret pen name that he uses for a serial about one gay man’s sexual exploits at the show’s fictional Winchester University. The writings itself is hilariously corny — “Even though I had just eaten breakfast, I was already hungry for a snack, and the campus was crawling with appetizing options,” he writes in one; another reads, “Maybe I’d take it into the end zone with a football player. I ain’t never been scared to take a knee” — but they nevertheless become a surprise hit on campus. Students describe the work as “Moonlight meets Sex and the City,” complete with the “political eroticism of Mapplethorpe plus the intrigue of Dangerous Liasons.” When one reader categorizes Chester as a “highbrow exploration of an oft-ignored community with a pulp noir aesthetic,” another quickly chimes in to add that “it’s also literary Viagra.”

But it’s his new friendship with D’Unte that really helps Lionel come out of his shell. In his very first appearance, D’Unte is already introducing Lionel (who he refers to as a “baby gay”) to new things. After passively using the word trade, much to Lionel’s confusion, D’Unte is forced to clarify himself. “They’re straight-adjacent guys you can just fool around with because they’d rather pass than have that conversation at Thanksgiving,” he elucidates.

Not hot

if troy isnt eating lionel’s [redacted] by episode 10 im givin up on dear white people

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Lionel is the cutest little character on Dear White People

And why is the voice narrating Lionel’s gay life sound tradeish when that ain’t who he is?

Sexy scene

This show is so annoying. The title is obnoxious.

Mmm nerdy young thing, c'mere.

Sexiest nerd on tv

Yes, he's hot. Have not seen season 3 yet; he has a great body and the character is kind.