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Giants, Drama and Giant Drama on Logo\u2019s \u2018Fire Island\u2019 [RECAP]<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

Before we even get to the island, we get a whirlwind checkin with the boys<\/a> back in the city. Khasan is 5-6-7-8ing in some anonymous dance studio. Justin is Facetiming, ugh, Cheyenne about running late (as usual). Jorge is describing his roommates to what I think is some kind of gay<\/a> wizard.<\/p>\n

We spend the most time pre-island with Brandon, sitting outside talking on the phone to a friend(? his mom?) about Jallen. Brandon is wearing head-to-toe beige, which feels very on-brand for all of his generic Brandonness. Also, I guess now we\u2019re calling Jallen \u201cJay-lynn,\u201d even though I\u2019m almost positive we were calling him \u201cJellen\u201d (rhymes with Ellen) last week. Most importantly,\u00a0the main takeaway is Jallen is still very, very tall.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

They arrive on the island and want to immediately start drinking, which I would too if I was staring down the prospect of sharing 48 hours with Cheyenne. Justin volunteers to load everyone\u2019s luggage into a wheelbarrow and take it back to the house while the other boys<\/a> go to \u201ctea\u201d (which is just gay<\/a> for happy hour on Fire Island). If you\u2019re thinking Justin is going to almost immediately complain about volunteering to do this task, you\u2019re right! He greets Patrick back at the house by telling him he just had to lug 14 bags up to the house by himself. Gurl.<\/p>\n

At tea, Brandon tries to warn Cheyenne that he hurt Patrick\u2019s fee-fees by skipping out on his drag show, but, not surprisingly, Cheyenne is unmoved. His logic and reasoning behind missing Patrick\u2019s pageant is so profound and beautiful, I have no choice but to quote it in full:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, business over drag shows \u2014 unless drag shows is your business \u2014 is always going to take precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ugh, if only that could fit on a novelty tanktop.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

Besides slamming back vodka sodas like the world is ending, the boys<\/a>\u2019 other priority at tea is to invite everyone they run into to their upcoming houseparty. It\u2019s a strange twist considering the last three episodes have focused on how mad everyone gets when Patrick invites literally the whole island to their house, but here they are doing the exact same thing. Hello, Kettle? This is Pot. You\u2019re wearing my black muscle tee. (OK, not my best work.)<\/p>\n

After tea, Justin escorts the housemates to his buddies\u2019 place\u00a0for a beer and pizza party. Justin explains that these friends know all his neuroses, and starts to outline them like a living Tinder bio. I\u2019ve heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but Justin wears his heart, mind, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnosis, blood type, Social Security number, hopes, dreams and fears on his sleeve.<\/p>\n

The sleeve is a metaphor, of course. This is Fire Island, there\u2019s not an actual sleeve in sight.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

The real drama unfolds as Patrick fires backhanded comments at Cheyenne about being a flake and not caring about anyone but himself. While accurate, it does feel a little aggressive. It\u2019s fun to watch Cheyenne squirm, though.<\/p>\n

Back at the house, Cheyenne is complaining about the whole situation to Brandon in the kitchen when Patrick swoops in to grab his purse. That\u2019s when they really get into it. Patrick\u2019s point is that Cheyenne says he\u2019s going to be somewhere, then doesn\u2019t show up AND neglects to even text the most haphazard \u201csorry, work thing!\u201d message. What Cheyenne hears though is that he shouldn\u2019t take a \u201c$30,000\u201d job so he can go to a drag show, which is not the point at all. That\u2019s like, I don\u2019t know, just hypothetically, if a Presidential election was directly influenced by outside interference from a foreign power, and the current President\u2019s primary\u00a0concern is who told the press about it.<\/p>\n

Alright, so it\u2019s not a perfect parallel, but you get the point. This is a very straightforward, reasonable request from Patrick (and previously Justin), and Cheyenne is completely oblivious to their feelings. His inability to even remotely understand Patrick\u2019s perspective makes him look like a total sociopath. Their fight ends in a sort of no-contest, with Patrick making a dramatic (and fabulous) exit with\u00a0his green purse. He\u2019s going to need that storage for all his smug self-satisfaction.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

The next day, Justin has his next emotional moment about wearing his first Speedo. Justin. I get it! A lot of (most? all?) gay<\/a> guys<\/a> have some kind of body hangup. But you look great! Better than like 85 percent of most straight guys<\/a>. Justin is \u201cfat\u201d like Scarlett Johansson is \u201ccurvy.\u201d Stop relying on the body-ody-ody dysmorphia!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost party time, and Patrick is passive-aggressively mixing punch. You know Patrick is industry, because only a professional bartender could pour Svedka with such disdain. All the men<\/a> arrive to their weird 8 p.m. pool party, including Jallen. He just sort of trails\u00a0little Brandon like Hodor dutifully following \u2014 OH MY GOD ANOTHER BRANDON \u2014 Brandon Stark.<\/p>\n

Brandon is feeling a little fussy being tied down to the friendly giant. After all, they did only meet one week ago, and Brandon is out here to feel his oats. He skips merrily along the party flirting with other guys<\/a>, while Jallen mopes around the pool. The housemates all try to cheer him up by telling him that maybe he and Brandon aren\u2019t on the same page. Very comforting stuff. Very cool of Justin to totally throw Brandon under a bus for this guy<\/a> they\u2019ve known for a week. Granted, he\u2019s only known Brandon for like two more weeks than that, but you know the saying: Brodors before Hodors.<\/p>\n

I guess the party wasnt from 8 p.m. until QUESTION MARK, because it certainly seems to end definitively in time to hit the bars. Jorge runs into \u2014 *guttural scream* \u2014 BRANDON (with the wing tattoo) outside. Brandon (now with wings!) clarifies that he and Patrick were never actually dating, and Jorge is scandalized! I mean, considering Jorge is in an eight-year long-distance relationship that includes mistresses, this feels like a pretty straightforward relationship dynamic to comprehend. Still, Jorge is shook.<\/p>\n

The guys<\/a> all stumble home 3 a.m. after a night of hard drinking. Jorge and Patrick have a pow-wow on the steps to the house bathed in some of the worst lighting I\u2019ve ever seen on television, including season one of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em>. Seriously, Jorge\u2019s beard somehow looks Cabbage Patch doll yellow blonde. It\u2019s hard to watch. Jorge tells Patrick about what Winged Brandon had to say, and Patrick isn\u2019t surprised. Patrick never made a big deal out his thing\u00a0with Winged Brandon; the housemates did.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the night, Justin runs naked<\/a> into the ocean because carpe diem, #YOLO, you miss 100 percent of the shots you don\u2019t take, and other aphorisms he read on a Pinterest board. Khasan \u2014 easily the most charming, sane, intelligent castmember I\u2019m definitely in love with \u2014 meets Justin down by the water. Justin then opens up with his sincerely very touching story about illness and suicide and reclaiming his life. It\u2019s all very moving, but also it\u2019s all very extra. Justin appears to live<\/a> his life like it\u2019s one big, emotional Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em> monologue. It\u2019s exhausting just watching the edited version. I can\u2019t imagine how draining it must be to have to be there with him in that moment.<\/p>\n

All of those moments. So many moments. Too many moments, Justin.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Brandon and Jallen. B\u2019s trying to sort of break it off with Jallen, but he clearly still wants to climb that bean pole, so he\u2019s telling Jallen in the least certain terms that he\u2019s not here to fall in love, but he\u2019s open to it and wants things to unfold organically. Confused yet? It basically\u00a0boils down to Brandon wanting to be able to bang any dude he wants on the island, but also wanting to fee-fi-fo-f*ck Jallen whenever the mood strikes him. He wants to have his cakes and eat them too.<\/p>\n

The next morning (or more likely early afternoon), the guys<\/a> are huddled in the kitchen. Brandon tells them he laid it all out there for Jallen, but as he recounts the specifics of the story, it becomes more and more obvious he did nothing of the sort. Oh, Brandon, you dumb baby.<\/p>\n

The guys<\/a> make it out to the pool, and Brandon is essentially nestled in the lining of some guy<\/a>\u2019s swimtrunks when in comes Patrick with Jallen in tow. Pat and Jallen sit awkwardly apart from the group, and Justin goes in on Brandon. He prefaces his admonishment by warning Brandon that he\u2019s going to \u201cmom\u201d him, like mom is a verb.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s coming from a good place trying to warn Brandon that being a hot little 20-something and not caring about anyone else\u2019s feelings will only get you so far. But, then again, Brandon can see Cheyenne going on $30,000 Instagram photoshoots and doing just fine, so I\u2019m\u00a0not really sure the lesson is going to sink in.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see next week if Brandon is a changed man<\/a>-boy<\/a>, but judging by the preview, it doesn\u2019t seem that way. Simmering tensions are going to boil over between several of the guys<\/a>, and I\u2019m just holding out for someone, anyone to yell \u201cTHIS IS NOT \u2018BEST FRIEND ISLAND.’\u201d Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n

What did you think of the episode?<\/p>\n

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