
By Romeo San Vicente
Prison Break Finds Its Thrill on Cherry Hill
Nothing says
"lesbian exploitation" like a fictional women's prison, which has a long
history in film and television - one both wildly entertaining and
somewhat repellent to queer audiences used to seeing menacing butch
women descend vampire-like on innocent young inmates over and over.
So it'll be interesting to watch how the jailbird action plays out on
the female-oriented spin-off of Prison Break, for now
called...wait for it... Prison Break: Cherry Hill (yes, really).
This doesn't necessarily mean that all will be lost in a haze of
offensive lunacy, but this is Fox, a network not historically
known for its sensitivity to, well, anyone.
Stay tuned to find out if this flipside of L-Word chic proves
ground-breaking or lurid or both.
Side note:
Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has repeatedly denied that he is gay
(he's been spotted hanging out a lot with T. R. Knight's ex-boyfriend),
but the rumors just don't seem to go away... See more Miller photos in
BGay MEN.
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