Your character in "Now Apocalypse," Gabriel, is only in scenes with Avan Jogia's character, Ulysses. "I was like, 'I think I’m going to be okay.'"ĭuring an interview at Sundance Film Festival, where the show premiered, Tyler Posey chatter with AOL's Gibson Johns about taking on "Now Apocalypse" after "Teen Wolf," working with Gregg Araki, sexual fluidity and more. "I had a conversation with my reps before and they were like, 'Look, if you feel uncomfortable on set at all - there’s a lot of nudity - give us a call,'" he told AOL.
Nearly every character is either semi- of fully-nude in the first two episodes of "Now Apocalypse," which centers around a group of struggling actors and writers in Los Angeles, and it was something that the actor was "all in" for. "And I think it’s cool that somebody could see me on the show and say, 'Hey, that kid is really comfortable with his sexuality, and he’s going all for it and that can inspire me to love myself.'"Īnother thing that Posey said he didn't think twice about: the show's gratuitous nudity. "I was excited to play a gay character, because I’m really comfortable with my sexuality," he told AOL's Gibson Johns in a sit-down interview. The actor, who identifies as straight, simultaneously recognized the significance of his character's sexual orientation and didn't want to make a big deal out it. In Gregg Araki's racy new Starz series, the actor, 27, plays Gabriel, a mysterious and elusive love interest for the show's lead, Ulysses (Avan Jogia), making it the first gay tole that Posey has taken on in his career. on Starz."Now Apocalypse" is a departure for Tyler Posey, who shot to fame on MTV's long-running "Teen Wolf." “Now Apocalypse” (30 minutes) premieres Sunday at 9 p.m.
Viewers who aren’t feeling the creator’s particular groove can’t be blamed for checking out of a show that so intentionally allows style to prevail over substance, and often forgets to check in with the apocalypse it has promised in its title. Perhaps Araki is saving the really trippy stuff (the rise of the lizard creatures, maybe) for “Now Apocalypse’s” back half, where one hopes that the pace will pick up. During their furtive first encounter, Ulysses experiences something more intense than an orgasm the show suggests nothing short of a cosmic unleashing.Īraki’s libertines are fun to follow as they romp and revolve, but what happens to them seems a little too shallow, too prolonged and too low-stakes. Using a dating site and a peppering of text messages, Ulysses pursues a mysterious but unreliable beauty named Gabriel (“Teen Wolf’s” Tyler Posey). They’re all trapped in an excruciatingly cool Spotify playlist the only way out, it seems, is through near-constant sex. Much of the first half of the story is squandered on the basic banter of beautiful people, shot through Araki’s Skittle-colored visual style and hipster sensibilities. His longtime roommate Ford (“Awkward’s” Beau Mirchoff) is a gym hunk deep in puppy love with a frosty, Frenchy astrobiological theorist named Severine (Roxane Mesquida), who is involved with a top-secret project at a lab.
Ulysses’s best friend Carly (Kelli Berglund) thinks he may be taking too many puffs off his cannabis pen she’s an underemployed actress who gets by performing sex acts on her laptop for pervy customers. Or maybe it’s the sort of thing John Waters would be making if he were young again.Īt 59, Araki’s no spring chicken, but he does stick to the vision he set out with in the 1990s, when his provocative indie films (“The Living End,” “The Doom Generation”) were hailed as examples of a “new queer cinema” movement that looked beyond tortured coming-out dramas and instead presented sex-positive stories about characters who don’t necessarily stick to their places on the orientation spectrum. Weird as it wants to be (and therefore tonally inconsistent), the show is what you might get if a sex columnist were forced to write the screenplay for a cheap sci-fi flick. At least, that’s what I gather from the five episodes (out of 10) made available for review. It’s a half-hour mash-up of millennial relationship shenanigans interrupted by the suggestion that the world will soon be overrun by libidinous lizard monsters who find humans good, giving and game.
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The modern manners of sexual fluidity get a rigorous workout in filmmaker Gregg Araki’s series “Now Apocalypse,” premiering Sunday on Starz.
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