Platonic Love Between Black Men Still So Rare Onscreen
’s “Striking Vipers,” it’s the two central characters’ inability to actually express how they feel about each other that’s the driving source of the episodes’ tension and confusion, to such an extent that it becomes an almost comical send-up of male stereotypes..
The episode flashes forward 11 years after that late-night video game session, and now Danny is barbecuing at his own birthday party in his backyard. He doesn’t seem to have any friends; when a couple approaches him to say hi, the conversation between Danny and the husband is ludicrously stilted.
That intimation of affection convinces Danny that he and Karl have to meet later that night — in real life — to see if what they have is “real.” After an awkward kiss, they determine that they aren’t actually attracted to each other. And so “Striking Vipers” concludes oddly, in a kind of pseudo sexually liberated way. With full blessings from his wife, Danny continues going on scheduled VR sex dates with Karl, while Theo hits the town sans her wedding ring.
We have a lot of potentially compelling ideas but are unable to connect the dots, so we leave them up to you, viewerThe characters’ blackness, too, is never remarked on — even though, as Abdul-Mateenwith the Hollywood Reporter, it’s still pretty noteworthy that two black men were cast to explore this dynamic in particular: “It’s important. We need more conversations about masculinity. I remember wondering how this story was going to play in a barber shop.
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