The director's own debut (Straight Up) is a lighthearted quasi-gay romcom with a twist. This is a full-on-gay dark dramedy, but none of the darkness stems from any of the characters' sexualities or shame around it. Judging an unreleased film (that's winning awards for a reason) just because it went viral for its comparatively brief sex scenes since that's all that a star's impatient, disrespectful fanbase would leak thankfully, is wild to me. Anyway, I think the film and DOB's performance is excellent; but obviously it won't work for every gay guy, just like any other recent buzzed-about gay film such as Queer, All of Us Strangers, Bros, Fire Island, etc.