Healthy Male Friendship on TV
There isn’t a lot of representation of healthy male friendship in the media. When two men are friends in a show or a movie they aren’t shown being vulnerable toward each other. One example is in Never Have I Ever, with Trent and Paxton. They claim they are best friends but they don’t know any deep personal information about each other. Trent doesn’t learn that Paxton is half-Japanese until the middle of the first season, although they claim to be childhood best friends. They do have a few deep conversations in season 3, but Trent’s whole identity within the show is being dumb and goofy, so the scene isn’t really taken very seriously due to the general lightheartedness of his character. It took a lot of thought for me to identify a representation of healthy male friendship on TV because there just aren’t that many examples. I realized that Scotty and Bo from The Wilds provide a good representation of what healthy male friendship should look like. Season 2 of The Wilds ...