High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Main guy is cute

So, who's The Gay?

This is at least one of them

I hope Corbin & Lucas come back for a cameo.

It’s probably gonna do well and be this generations Glee - the storyline is not completely child friendly

I just watched it. I don't get the shaky cam aesthetic. Are we supposed to believe someone is listening in to these characters private conversations? There is no score either. The music comes entirely from the rehearsal and performance footage.

The best friend of the main girl is annoying as fuck with her patriachy and intersectional feminist BS. It's hard to tell with these characters if the creators are making fun of them or if we're supposed to take them seriously.

The comedy feels forced, but the actors are obviously trying. The two main guys fighting for the main girl's affections are very cute.

Disney+'s 'High School Musical' Show Finally Includes Out Gay Characters

Of course, the out gay character is an effeminate choreographer.

Do us a favor, Disney, skip the gay characters if you're going to portray them as flaming queens. Better they not be in the cast. How about a gay wrestler or football captain, rather than the musical theater queen who wants to do drag?

Baby steps

Why the repetition of the word "musical"?

The time to accept baby steps is over.

Looks like the next episode should have some gay content, as the resident gay main character is going to ask the resident gay recurring character to homecoming.

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: Season One: Episode One: The Cast: Matt Cornett and Frankie A. Rodriguez.

The last episode was cute and hopefully will be the beginning of some nice gay stroylines.

Thanks to Whitney Houston, ‘High School Musical’ has its first gay romance

So the season ended, and it was actually pretty good. Much better than originally expected by me.

Of course we had two straight couples kiss on the lips, and Seb/Carlos only got a quick cheek kiss, but whatever.

R1 I've read he's homophobic. Don't know if it's true though.

R17 Ugh, so fucking typical. Disney will never allow a gay kiss.

R11 Because the show is a mockumentary about kids at the actual high school where the movies were filmed doing the stage version of High School Musical as their school musical. I know, it's like the world's most annoying tongue twister.

It's been renewed for a season 2. Apparently they'll be doing Beauty And The Beast this time around.

Seb and Carlos better get a proper storyline and actually kiss.

Of course, they probably won't since Disney's pretty homophobic.

r17 It's at least more than TJ and Cyrus got. But given they just dumped that Love Simon show to Hulu I doubt they're rushing to get better at this. Anyway at least Joshua Bassett and Matt Cornet are cute.

Of course they're cute. Disney's not going to hire ugly people for their straight leads.

Josh and Matt do seem awfully close....

The series is really weird and experimental. Does this even really count as a High School Musical spin-off considering it exists in the real world and HSM is just a movie in it? What an odd story and an even odder filming style choice (mockumentary).

[quote] Do us a favor, Disney, skip the gay characters if you're going to portray them as flaming queens.

Yas, queen!

I do commend them for casting people that actually look like high schoolers. Each of the actors actually looks like a seventeen year old.

I like that the gay best friend is the straight male protagonist's best friend this time and is also not effeminate or queeny in any way at all. It's a step in the right direction.

The actor who plays the gay farmboy is cute and turned 22 in January.

R29 Best friend of the straight protagonist? Are you talking about Big Red? The character's not gay

R29 Though if you're talking about Seb, I don't think he even know or had any scenes with the main character.

One of the cast members has recently come out to friends and family members as being gay.

Probably one of the girls R33

Sighing over dreamy Corbin Bleu was the only way I could make it through the original movies my baby sister loved so much (I must have sat with her watching the second movie damn near fifty times).

Call me a petty bitch but as his character doesn’t appear in season one of this and won’t be in season two either as far as I know, I don’t really care to ever watch it. At least he has been a good sport in doing fun interviews with the new cast (like the one at the link). He’s in his 30s now but still very cute and fuckable; pity he’s married to a woman now.

OT but now that I bring it up and we’re talking about it - when is that Guns N’Roses biopic (the ‘Reckless Road’ one) finally going into production? Because Bleu looks too much like Slash to not cast him.

Lucas Grabeel (Ryan from the original HSM movies) looked fat as fuck in his guest role!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!

You're correct, r34.

R36 so Lucas was playing Lucas, not Ryan? Trippy.

I understand the premise of this new thing intellectually, but it’s hard to get around it emotionally when you know the characters of the movies so well and associate them with the whole HSM deal. Like I look at Grabeel doing something in a HSM-themed production and my abused Millennial wint-brain instantly goes “oh, there’s Ryan. That’s Ryan Evans”.

I didn’t catch his cameo. Did he shoehorn in some inane throwaway line or moment to reinforce his heteroseshuality like he did doing press for HSM? 🙄

Honestly, with the way Lucas looks now, I don't care if he really is straight.

Fuck My Life

R39 I don’t care anymore either, but more because of his weak pandering vaguebook statements about sexuality (his character’s and his own) than his looks. Instead of being upfront and clear and honest, he just dodges the question with ‘bi/fluid/questioning’ nonsense - fine if you’re a kid in school, not if you’re a man well into his 30s who should have a grip and a backbone.

He gave a press statement recently that backtracks over everything positive said about his HSM character over the years in regards to LGB. If he really believes what he said, then he didn’t interpret the role the same way the rest of the world received it. Is it helpful for the kids of Now, already getting their heads messed with by Alphabet Soup, to hear that an obviously-gay boy (and later man) can’t just easily admit that he is and walk tall in that?

He says Ryan romantically “liked Kelsey”? And Zeke? Gurl, please, we all saw Ryan’s arc in HSM 2 and the thing with Chad.

[quote] Like all teenagers, Ryan was still figuring things out in high school. “Ryan was a guy who was really excited about theater and art and dance choreography and bright colors and hats,” Grabeel says. “But he also liked Kelsey, and he really liked [Zeke]. He didn’t need a label, because he wasn’t ready for that. He was still learning about himself and about people and where he fit into the world. I didn’t mean for it to be a giant statement, I actually wanted to be kind of subtle. I wanted to add nuance and little things that you might catch the second or third time you see the movies. I wanted people to think, ‘That character’s more complex than I thought,’ instead of saying, ‘Oh, he comes out in pink and you know he’s gay.’ That’s not what we had in mind. We had a lot of fun with putting in all those little nuances along the way.”

Disney's relationship with gayness and showing it in their media is getting weirder by the day. Now they're okay with showing some examples of gay men but not okay with showing other ones??? The acrobatics of it all seems very exhausting. It's good that they're improving drastically enough to include openly gay male characters who actually share romantic scenes and kiss and touch and dance together.

R42 To Disney gays are okay as long as they're not actually doing anything gay

R43 I wouldn't say that because the gays in their TV shows recently have had male-on-male kisses and dances and actual romantic displays of physical affection, but none of the gays have been... "normal" gay dudes. They've all been overly effeminate punchlines.

R44 Well, all we got in this show was a small peck on the check and a hug

r44 I think a large part of that is that these shows are mainly marketed at teen girls, so just about every boy who isn't an antagonist is usually overly sensitive. Though TJ was a reformed bully, who had a hoody collection and was Captain of the basketball team so he probably fits under your definition of normal gay dude.

[quote]all we got in this show was a small peck on the check

A peck on a check is worthless unless it's also got a signature.

I will not watch it unless I see that hottie zac efron

Twitter has already cancelled Bassett. Their researchers work fast in Coronacation.

R49 Will he still be canceled for saying it if he comes out as gay?

R49 Yikes, and right before his debut album comes out. This might be a pothole his music career won't recover from.

so we all agree that in making Carlos play Chad Disney confirmed Chad x Ryan had a gay thing right

Grabeel is probably yapping like that about the character because the actor himself doesn't want to be seen as gay.

I finally watched. My favorite characters are Gina, Carlos, and Seb. The leads are BORING. I was pissed they never gave any story to the boy who played Ryan. And they cut short Bop to the Top.

The twinks who play the gay couple in the show are fucking irl and just made their red carpet debut as a couple.