Paul, the protagonist of the new gay romantic comedy “Joy,” is a pretentious prat. He has a habit of ruining parties by drunkenly chastising everyone around him for their lack of militant homosexual fervor. Even his friends call him “abrasive and offensive.”
By the end of the show, however, he’s … well, actually, he’s still a pretentious prat.
Playwright John Fisher is making a melancholy point here, about a vulnerable man who hides behind unyielding politics to push people away. Paul raises important social issues, but they’re hampering his ability to find companionship in the everyday world. (Just in case you’re not sure that he’s sentenced himself to his own version of gay martyrdom, he’s helpfully writing a dissertation declaring that Jesus was gay.)
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