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Sense8 Season 2 Delivers Spectacular Coming Out Kiss At São Paulo Pride

Alfonso Herrera and Miguel Ángel Silvestre share a kiss in a scene from Sense8

Love, love, loving season 2 of Netflix’s sci-fi-fi series, Sense8.

On top  of the complex, sophisticated story-telling, the gay and transgender storylines are front and center, and handled well with sensitivity and authenticity.

One of the highlights of the 11 new episodes occurs as newly out action movie star “Lito Rodriguez” (played by hunky Miguel Ángel Silvestre) is invited to be grand marshal of São Paulo Pride in Brazil.

In his speech at Pride (actually filmed at São Paulo Pride last year), Rodriguez cautiously shares the fears that lead to actors staying in the closet.

“All of my life, I’ve had to pretend to be something I wasn’t. I couldn’t be what I am. I am a gay man. I’ve never said those words in public before. I am a gay man! I am a gay man!”

“Why did I have to be so afraid to say that? Because I know that people are afraid of people that are different than them. And admitting that I’m different, and refusing to be something that I am not, may cost me a career of pretending to be things that I am not, which is kind of crazy when you think about it. But I did. I did.

“For years, I was living inside the fake world of movies, never to imagine that one day, I might be brave enough to do something like this.”

“This is Hernando. He is the love of my life. I am a better and braver person because of him. And whatever it cost for me to be able to do this, I know in my heart that it is worth it.”

The entire season lives up to and exceeds my expectations. Not only regarding LGBT characters but the storytelling as a whole.

I can’t recommend season 2 of Sense8 enough. Check it out now on Netflix.

Watch “Lito’s” speech below.

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Podcast: Season 2 Of Netflix’s Sense8 , Trump & Religious Liberty, Anti-LGBT Army Secretary Nominee Withdraws & More

On this week’s  The Randy Report podcast:

• A Mississippi funeral home refuses to cremate a gay man

• The Equality Act reintroduced in Congress

• Donald Trump signed his Religious Liberty executive order without specific LGBT animus, but don’t exhale just yet

• Trump’s anti-LGBT Army Secretary nominee withdrew from consideration due to his past homophobic, transphobic and Islamophobic comments

• Netflix releases Season 2 of the LGBT inclusive sci-fi series, SENSE8 – #LoveIt

Listen below. And don’t forget to subscribe to The Randy Report podcast on iTunes here.

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Trailer: Season 2 Of “Sense8” On Netflix

I know what I’m doing this weekend 🙂

Here’s the official synopsis:

Netflix’s hit series, Sense8, is centered around eight characters, from different parts of the world, who experience a violent vision, and soon find themselves mentally connected by the experience. They become connected, able to see and talk to each other as though they were in the same place, with access to each other’s deepest secrets. Not only must the eight adapt to this new ability and to each other, they must figure out why their lives are now in jeopardy.

In Season 2, dark forces continue to track the cluster of eight connected characters. The sensates will learn more about BPO, the secret organization searching for their cluster and others like them, and will work to protect themselves from this organization that is out to hunt and kill them.

Netflix releases the full season 2 tomorrow.

As I’ve written about Sense8 before, I think it’s terrific – smart, thoughtful, complex and often quite sexy. The also show features gay and transgender storylines without pandering to those audiences.

Sexy Miguel Ángel Silvestre kisses Sense8 bf Alfonso Herrera

Miguel Ángel Silvestre – Lito Rodriguez

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Trailer: Season 3 “Grace And Frankie” On Netflix

Just in time for the weekend! My handsome hubby, Michael, will squeal when he sees this.

Netflix shares the first trailer for the upcoming 3rd season of the fab Grace And Frankie 🙂

Let’s see where did we leave off? Oh yes, Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie (Lily Tomlin) are looking for a loan to launch their personal vibrator business.

Grace: “We make vibrators—specifically for older women—that take into account their arthritis.”

Frankie: “Tender vaginal tissue.”

No surprise – #noloanforyou

Meanwhile, former husbands (and finally free to love) Robert (Martin Sheen) and Sol (Sam Waterston), are coping with a new home and possible retirement?

While the men are dancing in the new abode, the ladies’ oil and vinegar chemistry reminds us why this all works so beautifully. The fights and fits are what make the show so delicious.

But have they fallen and can’t get up?

Season 3 of Grace And Frankie premieres March 24th on Netflix.

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Trailer: Upcoming SENSE8 Christmas Special On Netflix

Netflix released a trailer this week for the Wachowskis’ Sense8 Christmas Special that will be released on December 23.

The 2 hour holiday special basically acts as the first episode of season 2 of the popular series that chronicles the lives of 8 individuals who realize they have become connected mentally and physically even though they live scattered across the globe.

While the second 10-episode season will premiere on May 5, this holiday special seems to pick up right where the season one ended.

I loved the first season, although I’d admit it took some time to understand the premise. The creators really took their time letting the story unfold. It wasn’t until about episode 5 that I felt I understood what was going on. And then, of course, the very sexy hot tub scene in episode 6 that made our heads explode over the gorgeous sensuality.

Several LGBT story lines are woven throughout the series, including uber-sexy Miguel Ángel Silvestre who plays “Lito Rodriguez,” a Mexican film star who gets outed during season one.

Don’t miss this premiere on December 23rd.

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Trailer: Biopic Of Early Life Of President Obama “Barry”

Check out the trailer for the upcoming biopic based on the early life of President Barack Obama from Netflix – Barry.

A young Barack Obama, known to his friends as “Barry,” arrives in New York City in the fall of 1981 to begin his junior year at Columbia University.

In a crime-ridden and racially charged environment, Barry finds himself pulled between various social spheres and struggles to maintain a series of increasingly strained relationships with his Kansas-born mother, his estranged Kenyan father, and his classmates.

Barry is the story of a young man grappling with those same issues that his country, and arguably the world, are still coming to terms with 35 years later.

The film begins streaming December 16.

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Trailer: “Mascots”

From the wild and wacky world of Christopher Guest, who created the hilarious Waiting For Guffman, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration and Best In Show, comes Mascots.

“Mascots don’t die, they just hang in a closet.”

From Netflix:

Starring many of his regular troupe of actors, this latest film takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots where they compete for the most prestigious award in their field, the Gold Fluffy.

The Netflix original film stars Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins, and Jim Piddock.

The film was written by Christopher Guest & Jim Piddock and produced by Karen Murphy.

Look for Mascots to begin streaming on Netflix beginning October 13, 2016.

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Trailer: “Tallulah”

From Vulture:

Good news, Juno fans: Ellen Page has a baby again. Bad news: She seems to have lost track of her hamburger phone, also the baby belongs to Tammy Blanchard, not Page.

In Tallulah, Page absconds with Blanchard’s baby, realizes that was a terrible idea, and looks for maternal advice from Allison Janney, who’s playing the mother of Page’s missing boyfriend.

Also, Uzo Aduba is the child-services officer on the case — boy, Sundance movies do get complicated.

Tallulah premieres July 29 on Netflix.