Katie Notopoulos

I don't know if we will see exactly the level of psychosis around this.

I think that there's a couple, I mean, one thing that I think I've been hearing from gay men a lot about why they like the show is that it's sort of refreshing to see a gay romance that isn't tragic or problematic or the main thrust of it isn't something terrible is happening to them.

That it's sort of, you know, just joyful and romantic and sexy.

And so I think that people are really responding to that too.

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Yeah, the show has become massively popular.

Off the top of my head, I know that there's sort of all these stats of it's had a tremendous amount of watch time on HBO, which is the U.S.

distributor or whatever.

And it sort of came out of nowhere.

It didn't have a lot of promotion behind it initially.

The actors are unknown, so it doesn't really have any big stars in it.

The books had been around, so there was like a low-level sort of fan base of this going into it.

Yeah.

You know, I think partly it's sort of hit at a time, you know, over the holidays when a lot of people had some free time.

And people just love this show.

It's, you know, it's romantic.

It's sexy.

It's fun.

It's a happy story.