Single All The Way is a ‘pretend to be lovers’ gay Christmas rom-com
We’ve always said that us gays need more media that lets us embrace the joy that we can find in everyday life, so we’re over the moon that a new, gay Christmas rom-com called Single All The Way is coming to Netflix on Thursday, December 2.
The concept of the film is pretty damn familiar: a single guy heads home for Christmas, but because he is single – which worries his family – he turns to his best friend for help. It’s a trope that’s familiar, but only through the lens of heterosexual couples in most mainstream media, which is why Single All The Way is such a big deal.
The protagonist of this wacky rom-com is Peter (Michael Urie), a single, gay man who enlists his friend Nick (Philemon Chambers) to be his lover for the holidays. This seems like a good idea because, in Peter’s own words, his family has wanted him to and Nick to get together for ages now. That’s right folks, there’s no homophobic family in this one – just pure and utter love for their son and his friend! We do love to see it.
What’s more, we love that it isn’t just yet another gay movie where there are two white leads. Philemon Chambers as Nick looks to play an equal role in this cutesy, Christmas film, though it does look like he might come up against some resistance when Peter is set up on a blind date.
More importantly, the team behind Single All The Way is just as queer as the film itself! Speaking to Pink News, Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers opened up about the creative team behind this gay rom-com.
“The beautiful part is that me, Michael, our director and also our executive producer and our writer, we’re all queer – we’re all gay,” Chambers tells the publication. “It was just one of those things where you had many different levels of voice – especially coming from a Black queer perspective, you had my voice, but then you had these mature, different voices that we had to work off of. It was just really great.”
As for Urie, it was amazing to play a single, gay character that didn’t have misery waiting for him, nor a tragic, homophobic backstory or family.
“We’re going to be sharing a story about Christmas, about two gay men, and about a family and a town that are not homophobic, where there is no shame around being gay.” Urie explains. “It tells a story that isn’t about coming out of the closet or any kind of trauma – it’s just a guy who has been single and his family wants him to be coupled, and that’s the problem.”
Single All The Way releases on Netflix on 2 December.
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