American TV series or program
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
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Genre
| Reality
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 2
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No.
of episodes
| 20
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Executive producers
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- Randy Barbato
- Fenton Bailey
- Sarah Barnett
- Michael Klein
- Ann Rose
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Production company
| World of Wonder
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Network
| Sundance Channel
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Release
| December 7, 2010
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2010-12-07
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January 27, 2012
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2012-01-27
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Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
is an American
reality television
series that premiered on December 7, 2010, on the
Sundance Channel
.
[1]
The series chronicles the lives of four gay men and their female best friends.
[2]
[3]
Season 2, which saw the show relocating to
Nashville, Tennessee
, premiered November 18, 2011.
Cast
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Season 1
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- Elisa and David
- Elisa Casas owns a vintage clothing store, Chelsea Girl, in
SoHo
and David Munk manages it. They met while living across the hall from each other in the Weinstein dormitory at
New York University
.
[3]
- Sarah and Joel
-
Sarah Rose
is a travel writer and the author of
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
.
Joel Derfner
is the author of two books,
Gay Haiku
and
Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended Up Happening Instead
. He also composes musicals.
- Rosebud and Sahil
-
Rosebud Baker
is an actress. She and Sahil Farooqi met in college in Virginia. As of the series premiere, Sahil had not
come out
to his family.
[4]
- Crystal and Nathan
-
Crystal McCrary
and
Nathan Hale Williams
operate a film and television production company.
[5]
Crystal is the mother of
NBA
point guard
Cole Anthony
and, with Rita Ewing, is the co-author of the novel
Homecourt Advantage
.
Season 2
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- Tenisha and Jared
- Tenisha Jackson is a children's book author and
Jared Allman
is an aspiring actor.
[6]
[7]
- Kristin and Peter
- Kristin Sabata is a school psychologist whose husband is deployed in Afghanistan.
Peter Depp
[8]
is a stand-up comedian with three children from a previous marriage to a woman.
[9]
- Sherrie and Shane
-
Sherrie Austin
, a former child actress, is a singer/songwriter determined to make a return to performing after years of songwriting for other artists.
Shane Stevens
is also a songwriter and aspiring singer.
[10]
[11]
- Olivia and Brent
- Olivia McCarthy is a restaurateur and publishes a regional magazine. Brent Oscar Young is an event planner and publicist.
[12]
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Episodes
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Season 1 (2010)
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Season 2 (2011-12)
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Reception
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Ellen Gray of
The Philadelphia Daily News
found
Girls
to be similar in tone to the series
Will & Grace
and pondered whether a reality version of that show was necessary. Despite that, the
News
found the lack of "manufactured" drama a positive change from other similar reality programs.
[14]
The New York Daily News
'
s Richard Huff, also comparing
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
to the "groundbreaking"
Will & Grace
, labels
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
"mind-breaking". It has moments, sure, but never enough to make it memorable or a winner." The lack of "reality-show trappings" like "table flipping" and "hair-extension pulling", he writes, means that the series needs "some humor, drama and good storytelling" and
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
lacks these qualities.
[15]
Hank Stuever of
The Washington Post
cites a "curiously sad tone" that pervades
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
. "The show often seems at cross-purposes," he continues, "as if the producers had a clear idea of what sort of peppy project they wanted to film and then picked the wrong people to follow around."
[1]
Troy Patterson of
Slate.com
calls the series "intriguingly ridiculous".
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
, he writes, seeks to be a serious show but in trying to be serious it "betrays its core triviality".
[16]
Brent Hartinger
of the gay-interest website
TheBacklot.com
writes that it is "a smart, watchable show". Acknowledging the
Will & Grace
-like premise, Hartinger notes that the series quickly deals with the similarities and "becomes about four very specific pairings, each of which is interesting and unique in its own way. Better still, none of the relationships is perfect, and only one is what might you think of when you think of this type of relationship".
[17]
Joel Derfner
, a co-star of season one of the show, has publicly criticized the show's producers for their editing and manipulation of statements and sentiments, which sometimes ended up on air as the opposite of fact.
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References
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Stuever, Hank (December 7, 2010).
"Emotional naggage in 'Girls Who Like Boys'
"
.
The Washington Post
.
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Hale, Mike (December 6, 2010).
"When Your Gay Friend Has Issues"
.
The New York Times
.
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a
b
Matheson, Whitney (November 30, 2010).
"Coming soon: 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys'
"
.
USA Today
.
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"Profile: Rosebud and Sahil"
. Sundancechannel.com. 2013-08-13
. Retrieved
2014-06-29
.
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"Profile: Crystal & Nathan"
. Sundancechannel.com. 2013-08-13
. Retrieved
2014-06-29
.
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"Nashville - Tenisha and Jared"
. Sundancechannel.com. 2013-08-13
. Retrieved
2014-06-29
.
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Anderson-Minshall, Diane (November 18, 2011).
"Arts & Entertainment Television What It's Like for Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys"
.
Advocate
.
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Depp, Peter (November 17, 2011).
"Why I Decided to Appear on Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys"
.
The Huffington Post
.
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"Nashville - Kristin and Peter"
. Sundancechannel.com. 2013-08-13
. Retrieved
2014-06-29
.
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Stransky, Tanner (October 21, 2011).
"Sundance's 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys': Meet the season 2 cast!"
.
Entertainment Weekly
.
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Halterman, Jim (November 18, 2011).
"Shane Stevens on "Girls Who Like Boys"... Who Like Jesus"
.
The Backlot
.
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"Nashville - Olivia and Brent"
. Sundancechannel.com. 2013-08-13
. Retrieved
2014-06-29
.
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"
'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys' films in Nashville"
.
Out & About Nashville
. June 15, 2011.
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Gray, Ellen (December 7, 2010).
"Ellen Gray: 'Girls Who Like Boys' debuts on Sundance"
.
Philly.com
.
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Huff, Richard (December 7, 2010).
"Real-life 'Will & Grace' straight woman, gay man relationships not reality-show fodder, lack drama"
.
The New York Daily News
.
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Patterson, Troy (4 December 2010).
"Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys"
.
Slate
.
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Hartinger, Brent (December 2, 2010).
"Review: "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys" is Better Than You Might Expect"
.
The Backlot
.
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Derfner, Joel.
"Congratulations! It May Already Have Gotten Better!"
Keynote Address, Mid-Atlantic LGBTA Conference. November 5, 2011.
[1]
Archived
2015-09-23 at the
Wayback Machine
[2]
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Derfner, Joel.
Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
. University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. p. 117.
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