While Fire Island includes all kinds of requisite rom-com elements, from a pratfall meet-cute to a tearful misunderstanding to a grand gesture of a finale, they’re funneled into the experiences of Noah’s bestie, Howie (Bowen Yang), who’s the first to admit his desires run to the basic. Or maybe it’s the genre itself that’s the constraint. Such are the privileges of having written the script - Booster is also an executive producer - though Fire Island feels hemmed in by its source material even when being loose and irreverent with it. All the best parts of Joel Kim Booster’s gay rom-com unfold outside its genre framing.įire Island is inspired by Pride and Prejudice, though focus too closely on mapping the details of Austen’s novel onto the film and you’ll notice that, as Noah, star Joel Kim Booster is effectively playing the witty one in his friend group (the Elizabeth) as well as its acknowledged beauty (the Jane).
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