The cruel sense of irony is that that’s impossible - he’ll never be that free, that innocent, that open to possibility again. He returns to the same gay bar 25 years later not to pick up someone new, but to recapture those feelings he had with one boy over two decades ago. Everything that follows is a last desperate grasp at control over a situation that has spiraled far beyond his scope. By the time he grabs his car keys to get behind the wheel (despite still being drunk), it’s clear that Cal has very little else to live for. Rather, Cal’s story is more of a tricky tragedy. Sure, being backed into a corner by his family “set free,” as he says, but the type of freedom he has to look forward to isn’t exactly desirable. Though his drunken confession does act as its own form of catharsis, it does not promise - nor does it even tease - any sort of peace in his future. When Cal walks out of his front door, a framed picture of his family clutched tightly in his hand, it’s not as a man excitedly exiting the closet, ready to embrace a new life of sexual fulfillment and happiness. Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Alexa Demie, and more tell us how they navigated the show’s intense new storylines.
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