The 9th season of
American Horror Story is set in the summer of 1984 (a year before I moved to Los Angeles), when a group of aerobic-studio friends get jobs as counselors at a remote woodland camp. What follows looks like a standard 90-minute teenkill, with a ridiculously over-the-top Jason-Michael-Freddie picking them off one by one.
That seems a little thin for an entire series. I assume there's a big twist coming, and some additional characters, but until then we'll have to make do with just 8 hunks. Most have some gay connections.
1. Conor Donnally as Eddie, one of the aerobics students. He previously starred in
Hooked (2018), about two gay teens trying to make a living on the street.
2. Deron Horton, who you know as the cute gay nerd of
Dear White People, plays Ray, the black counselor. Traditionally the black guy is the first to get sliced and diced, but he sticks around through the fifth episode.
3. Luke Lowrey as an unnamed aerobic dancer. Too bad he isn't dancing shirtless. You might remember him from the webseries
Bi (2014-15), about a bi guy negotiating life, love, and hookups.
4. Matthew Morrison as Trevor, the counselors' supervisor, with a 1970s pornstache and a super-sized package. I think he's actually a ghost.
You may remember Trevor as Will Sylvester, the choir director on gay fave
Glee.
5. Cody Fern, who played the Antichrist last season, as Xavier Plimpton, the rich party boy counselor. Cody, who is gay in real life, is set to appear in the remake of the pre-Stonewall classic
Boys in the Band.6. Lou Taylor Pucci in a 1960s outfit as the hiker the counselors run over (
I Know What You Did Last Summer homage). I think he was already a ghost. Lou played a bi character in the short
A Good Dinner Party.7. Gus Kenworthy as Chet, the jock counselor. Gus was the first gay-identified Olympic athlete before moving into acting.
8. Zach Villa as Richard Ramirez, the serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles in 1984. In 2014, Zach starred in the indie film
Honeyglue, about a "gender-defying artist" who starts a romance with a terminally ill girl.
9. Spencer Neville as Joseph Cavanaugh (I don't know who that is, as the character hasn't appeared yet). Spencer is best known as a competitive bodybuilder, and as the gay Derrick on the soap
Days of Our Lives.10. And who can forget John Carroll Lynch before he moved into serial killer roles, as Drew's straight transvestite brother on
The Drew Carey Show?
