At this stage of their relationship, Michael hasn’t yet settled into adulthood. Once inside, he reveals a vast collection of unsexy Smurf paraphernalia. A few dates later, he reluctantly brings Kit to his New Jersey apartment. When Kit asks Michael to dance, Michael declines and says it’s really not his scene. Kit’s the cool New York City kid: he’s an amateur photographer, his arty friends wear the right outfits to nightclubs, they look and feel at home grooving on the dance floor. Michael and Kit embody the trope of an “opposites attract” couple. And so Spoiler Alert appears to be a straightforward walk down the well-traveled road of movie rom-coms. In his voiceover monologue, Michael (Jim Parsons) tells us that his husband Kit (Ben Aldridge) will soon die of cancer.Įven though the audience immediately knows where this is going, Michael and Kit’s relationship is depicted as a love story rather than “just a tragic sob story” (Michael Ausiello’s words, who wrote the memoir of the same name). During the opening scene of Spoiler Alert, the camera observes a couple cradling each other in a hospital bed.
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