Joel Kim Booster makes Netflix comedy special debut with Pyschosexual
On Wednesday, Netflix premiered the trailer for Joel Kim Booster’s upcoming comedy special Pyschosexual. The special will debut on the service globally on June 21, joining the ranks of Netflix’s other queer content.
Psychosexual will be Kim Booster’s first Netflix comedy special. It was directed by Doron Max Hagay and executive produced by Joel Kim Booster, Zack Freedman, Tony Hernandez, Séamus Murphy-Mitchell, Brooke Posch, and Doron Max Hagay. The show was filmed at Catch One in Los Angeles and uses a three-act format. Kim Booster uses the platform of this Netflix special to explore his fascination with human sexuality, and discuss the process of learning the cultural nuances of being Asian as an adopted child in Psychosexual.
Joel Kim Booster is a comedian, actor, and producer. He co-produced and wrote for TV shows Big Mouth and The Other Two. As an actor, he’s appeared in Shrill, Search Party, and Sunnyside. Most recently, he wrote, produced, and starred in a romantic comedy, modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice on Hulu called Fire Island. The movie featured a predominantly Asian-American cast and is focused on a group of queer friends vacationing in the titular Fire Island.
The film was recently involved in some online controversy after writer and editorial director for audio at New York Magazine Hanna Rosin posted a now-deleted tweet criticizing the film’s representation of women. She wrote that the film got “an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way.”
“Do we just ignore the drab lesbian stereotypes bc cute gay Asian boys? Is this revenge for all those years of the gay boy best friend?”
The creator of the Bechdel test – “a set of criteria used as a test to evaluate a work of fiction, such as a film, on the basis of its inclusion and representation of female characters” – Alison Bechdel eventually entered the conversation to give her input.
“Okay, I just added a corollary to the Bechdel test: Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel = pass. #FireIsland #BechdelTest,” she wrote on Twitter.
Fans of Kim Booster’s work will get even more in 2022 when Psychosexual premieres globally June 21.
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