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GRΣΣK: Coming Out and Fraternities

Posted by AJ in September 17th 2007

Bakla watches pretty much anything that’s on TV. Typical TV freak and/or couch potato - if you wanna tag him that.

Since his life is quite sordid and he’s living a very sorry life, he is inclined to watch comedies. Well, he prefers comedy, but just give him a TV set (with or without cable) and he’ll be fine. In the past few weeks, he caught himself watching a relatively new (and still quite unheard-of here in the Philippines) TV show - GRΣΣK.

College, fraternities, friendship and a whole lot of laughter is what GRΣΣK is all about. It has already finished it’s first season (of 10 episodes) and is due to release its second season in 2008.

From Wikipedia:

GRΣΣK (or Greek) is a teen drama television series that runs on the ABC Family network. The show follows the story of Rusty, a college freshman attending the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University, who longs to leave behind his reputation as a high school geek by joining a fraternity, while sister Casey hopes for little interference with her enjoyment of Greek life. Most of the characters belong to either the fictional fraternities Kappa Tau Gamma (ΚΤΓ) and Omega Chi Delta (ΩΧΔ), or the fictional sorority Zeta Beta Zeta (ΖΒΖ).

This show has received fantastic reviews. And these are well-deserved! Watching even just an episode will keep you laughing and wanting for more!

And one thing that’s great about this show is that they have the (we hate to say it, but) token gay character: Calvin, an African-American closeted homosexual lives the “Greek” life at the fictitious Cyprus-Rhodes University.

We present to you a very heartwarming scene from Episode 4:

If only coming out was this easy, and if only the people around us were as open-minded as Rusty, life would be a breeze, sweetheart! Bakla has replayed this clip over and over, and has made him cry… awww.Oh, we forgot to mention that this series has lots of hot men! Slurrrp!