Stephen Ira pointed out something we’ve all known for a while now, namely that John Mulaney has a lot of FTM energy and I think it’s time for him to knock it off (Mulaney, not Ira). Bill Hader, too; both of them with their wide-set temples and their Cary Grant swimming-pool hairlines and their marquise-cut cheekbones and their reinvented mid-Atlantic accents and their anxious, elegant Peter Lorre hands need to quit it with their midcentury gay-adjacent nervousness, because I’m already jealous of enough of it. What are they
And yet Mulaney hates his feminine hips, and his high waist, and his "swinging log" arms - in his eyes, he's a scrawny nonsense, Ichabod Crane's maiden aunty, a creature of no particular gender, race, or purpose. "Whatever it is you are, we don't need any of you," he tells himself in an SNL sketch. He is turning, he says, into his mom instead of his dad as he ages. The only thing he clings to is being a six-footer. He mentions it so often that one wonders if that's all he thinks he has going for him, the poor chap.
This is exactly how I feel about Hale Appleman (Eliot on "The Magicians").
And yet Mulaney hates his feminine hips, and his high waist, and his "swinging log" arms - in his eyes, he's a scrawny nonsense, Ichabod Crane's maiden aunty, a creature of no particular gender, race, or purpose. "Whatever it is you are, we don't need any of you," he tells himself in an SNL sketch. He is turning, he says, into his mom instead of his dad as he ages. The only thing he clings to is being a six-footer. He mentions it so often that one wonders if that's all he thinks he has going for him, the poor chap.