“Search Party,” the crime comedy that turned hipster ennui into a truly perilous prospect, is the best show about millennials on TV.
After just two seasons, the show has received widespread critical acclaim for building wry humor and hate-to-love characters into a refreshingly gripping mystery.
There is far less mystery (but just as many laughs) in “Men Don’t Whisper,” a new short film from Charles Rogers, who co-created “Search Party,” and Jordan Firstman, a writer on the show.
The short, which premiered at SXSW before making its online debut Wednesday, follows a gay couple who attend a sales conference and attempt to sleep with two women in order to prove their masculinity.Partners in real life, Firstman and Rogers play the movie’s lead characters, Reese and Peyton.
Like gay characters in “Search Party,” they don’t conform to gay stereotypes often found onscreen, though in a more understated way.
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