Tyler Young delivers an EMMY-worthy performance in USA Network’s exhilarating crime thriller, Eyewitness. Viewers and critics have been blown away by his poised and transcendent portrayal of Philip Shea—a gay youth struggling with his identity. The groundbreaking project is the first of its genre to center around two gay lead characters. And, we can only hope it’s the first of many. Pop Culturalist was lucky enough to chat with Tyler about the role, what it’s meant for the LGBTQ community, and what’s next. Eyewitness Questions PC: What attracted you to
Netflix’s prediction algorithm is one day going to take over the world, I just know it. A show called “Chewing Gum” kept popping up on my Netflix homepage, starting a few months ago. I would read the description, mull over it, then dismiss it. I wasn’t ready to commit to a new show and have to get comfortable with a whole new cast of characters. Then the day came when the algorithm wore me down, and I dove into the candy-colored, laugh-out-loud funny world of Tracey Gordon. All I can
Comprised of originally two one-act shows, 1981’s March of the Falsettos and and 1990’s Falsettoland, Falsettos was first produced on Broadway in 1992. The show, by William Finn and James Lapine, was an important piece of art. Addressing universal themes of love and family, but also bringing in some emerging issues of the time (AIDS and the gay movement), Falsettos was a critical hit (it won two Tony Awards). This current Broadway revival is, simply put, a hit as well. Falsettos tells the story of a Jewish family breaking down and
Amazon Studios’s The Man in the High Castle had an explosive freshman season and became the site’s most popular series. Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the series takes place in an alternate timeline: in this timeline, the Allies lost World War II and the United States of America have been partitioned into the Japanese-controlled Pacific States and Nazi America. The series opens in this alternate version of the 1960s and follows an underground resistance group that is attempting to overthrow the yoke of imperialism in both halves of what