(“What if spies were gay?”) It’s also true that the characters are little more than walking stereotypes. In truth, the actual show itself is nothing to get too keyed up about. Somehow, I have a hard time seeing the latter camp glomming onto a cartoon featuring a man saying, “It made my little butthole go boop.” But I also don’t necessarily see any queer majority, myself included, mounting a defense of this show, whose teaser feels like a rotted olive branch from That Guy Who Called Me F*ggot in High School. They managed to unite homosexuals and homophobes.” That’s an extreme summary, perhaps, but it’s also understandable. In an era of divisive outrage, this teaser somehow became the great equalizer, with another YouTube commenter marveling, “Wow Netflix did it. Then he realizes it’s empty, and vents his frustration at “wasting masculinity for nothing,” as if this is an energy-depleting thing for a gay man. Gay heroes.” Meanwhile, Sean Hayes’ head spy character and his team barrel into a room, macho-style. They can smell it.” In between, viewers are assaulted with the rank tagline “Straight aim. ” It’s easy to see why: The damn thing starts with one character shouting “Hey, twink!” and ends with another saying, “You can’t pander to the gays.
One commenter called the trailer “a 55-second slur. When the initial teaser for Netflix’s queer animated spy comedy Q-Force hit YouTube, the outrage was immediate and overwhelming.
