mikeyank
Long time forumite
I thoroughly enjoyed this BTS episode. As I've often said over the years, one of my great enjoyments of watching Broke Straight Boys is the reality aspect of the site. I feel that BSB1 gave me more of a reality feeling than BSB2, but as I've learned there were many members who felt that David was too chatty, and just wanted to fast forward to the guys getting naked and having sex. I am different in that the more I know and hopefully like the models first, the more I will enjoy the actual scene. But this wonderful new BTS series allows me to really get to know the guys, while not taking away from the other member's "naked sex time" in the actual scenes.
It was nice to get to meet Chuck after all these years, to see what a fine cook Sha is, as well as spending a few more minutes with the boys outside of the porn setting. Much like with Johnny I like Brandon a lot more seeing him just be a guy, and not necessarily a porn model. And I really appreciate Damian Christopher's marvelous talent with his cinematography.
But this episode focused on "Reluctant Mike", and from the other BTS with Mike from when he first arrived to his two, (or actually one and a half porn scenes on Broke Straight Boys), I found it very interesting to watch a "failed" model. It seems to me that everything about Mike coming to Denver to shoot gay porn was wrong. He doesn't have the personality or the openness of the successful models, and quite frankly in my opinion he doesn't have the looks of a Broke Straight Boys model either. I just hope that the experience does not weigh on him after he arrived home, and I sure hope that no one in his real life recognizes him from his brief encounter with gay for pay porn, as I don't think that he can handle it.
But again, with my fascination with reality cinema, going back to the original PBS reality series, "An American Family", back in the early 70's where the son Lance came out as being gay and the husband and wife wound up separating and divorcing with the camera's rolling, I enjoy watching reality over fiction any day of the week.
I wish Mike all the success in the world with the rest of his life, but despite what he told Sabrina on the car ride back to the airport, I highly doubt that he will think of this as a positive experience.
I look forward to future episodes of this fine reality series, and I imagine most of them will leave me feeling happier than I did watching Mike, but it was real and every story in life does not have a happy ending.
It was nice to get to meet Chuck after all these years, to see what a fine cook Sha is, as well as spending a few more minutes with the boys outside of the porn setting. Much like with Johnny I like Brandon a lot more seeing him just be a guy, and not necessarily a porn model. And I really appreciate Damian Christopher's marvelous talent with his cinematography.
But this episode focused on "Reluctant Mike", and from the other BTS with Mike from when he first arrived to his two, (or actually one and a half porn scenes on Broke Straight Boys), I found it very interesting to watch a "failed" model. It seems to me that everything about Mike coming to Denver to shoot gay porn was wrong. He doesn't have the personality or the openness of the successful models, and quite frankly in my opinion he doesn't have the looks of a Broke Straight Boys model either. I just hope that the experience does not weigh on him after he arrived home, and I sure hope that no one in his real life recognizes him from his brief encounter with gay for pay porn, as I don't think that he can handle it.
But again, with my fascination with reality cinema, going back to the original PBS reality series, "An American Family", back in the early 70's where the son Lance came out as being gay and the husband and wife wound up separating and divorcing with the camera's rolling, I enjoy watching reality over fiction any day of the week.
I wish Mike all the success in the world with the rest of his life, but despite what he told Sabrina on the car ride back to the airport, I highly doubt that he will think of this as a positive experience.
I look forward to future episodes of this fine reality series, and I imagine most of them will leave me feeling happier than I did watching Mike, but it was real and every story in life does not have a happy ending.