Fellow Travelers: Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer — Photo: Courtesy of Showtime
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of the 2024 Dorian TV Awards, honoring the best in television and streaming networks.
Max’s Hacks took top honors with 4 wins, including nods for Best TV Comedy, Best Written TV Show, and its two stars, Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder.
AMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire won Best TV Drama, Best LGBTQ TV Show, and Best Genre TV Show, and the Showtime/Paramount+ drama Fellow Travelers earned wins for its stars Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey.
The Campiest TV Show honor went to SYFY/USA’s Chucky, while FX/Hulu’s Reservation Dogs took home the group’s award for Best Unsung TV Show.
Netflix’s superb Young Royals won Best Non-English Language TV Show, while the Alan Cumming-helmed The Traitors on Peacock won Best Reality TV Show. Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV on Investigation Discovery won Best TV Documentary.
Julio Torres was honored with GALECA’s “Wilde Wit Award,” Alan Cumming was bestowed with the “TV Trailblazer Award,” and the legendary Carol Burnett was this year’s “TV Icon” award-winner.
“Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 Dorian Television Awards,” Walt Hickey, GALECA’s President, said in a statement. “This group is second to none when it comes to elevating and advocating for innovative, daring work, and celebrating the creative efforts of the future of the film and television industry.”
The nonprofit organization boasts over 500 members, most of whom are on staff or freelance for mainstream and niche media outlets including The New Yorker, Vulture, HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, Out, The Advocate, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, and The Guardian.
Four of Metro Weekly‘s writers are GALECA members, including Senior Contributing Editor and film critic André Hereford, Contributing Editor Hugh McIntyre, Broadway Critic Ryan Leeds, and Editor-in-Chief Randy Shulman.
Netflix's Stranger Things is facing backlash from viewers after writers devoted the show's penultimate episode to a storyline in which Will Byers, played by Noah Schnapp, comes out as gay.
In part because of the negative reaction to the coming-out storyline -- which appears in the third of three episodes released on Christmas -- Season 5 is now the show's lowest-rated season, earning a 56% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The episode itself, "The Bridge," is the lowest-rated of the entire series on IMDb, with a 5.4 score. All other episodes in Season 5 are rated 8.0 or higher.
Matt and Ross Duffer, the co-creators of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things, are responding to cultural backlash over a much-criticized storyline in which teenage character Will Byers comes out as gay.
The penultimate episode, "The Bridge," earned the lowest IMDb score and the harshest audience reaction of any episode across the series’ five seasons. Many fans criticized the episode -- particularly Will’s coming-out storyline -- for sloppy writing, uneven performances, cheesy sentimentality, and its timing within the episode.
Jonathan Bailey is the highest-grossing actor of the year, according to Variety.
The openly gay actor played key roles in two blockbusters this year -- Dr. Henry Loomis in Jurassic World Rebirth, the fifth-highest-grossing film of the year at more than $869 million worldwide, and Fiyero in Wicked: For Good, which has grossed more than $468.3 million since its November 21 theatrical release.
Bailey first rose to global fame as Lord Anthony Bridgerton on Netflix’s Bridgerton, and has since taken on a string of high-profile projects, including the role of a closeted congressional aide in Showtime’s Fellow Travelers, which earned him an Emmy nomination and a Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries.
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