This Week:

Turns Out I Love Hockey

Pleasantries are gone. Greetings, small talk, common manners? A waste of time. For the past week, any instance I’ve encountered a gay man, they’ve cut directly to the chase, whispering in a sort of thrilled, mischievous wink: “Have you seen the gay hockey show?”

Any clandestineness shrouding the conversation immediately pops like an overfilled balloon upon confirmation that both parties have, in fact, seen the first episodes of Heated Rivalry. A shriek, a moan, some performative fanning of a flushed face all follow. Blissfully, the TV show about hockey players having hot, graphic, realistic, kinda porny gay sex is not a secret.

It’s the buzziest show that’s streaming right now, and we all get to delight in, celebrate, and publicly be turned on by it.

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