“Fire Island” addresses head-on the intersections of race, class, and dating as a friend group vacations together.Īs Booster described the plot: “What happens when gay men are put together on an island and there are no straight people to oppress us? How do we oppress each other?” And to say that something is greater than a Jane Austen narrative is insane, unhinged of me, to do. “Saturday Night Live” breakout star Yang added, “A Jane Austen narrative meeting an Asian-American narrative meeting a queer narrative: Those three helices come together in a way that’s greater than the sum of their parts.

“Jane Austen’s observations about the way people are awful to each other without being awful to each other-I was like, ‘Oh, my God. “I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve watched ‘Clueless,’ from a time before I even understood most of the jokes,” Booster said. In fact, “Fire Island” was inspired by another (albeit, much longer) miniseries, the BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” which Booster would watch with his mother “at least once a year.” Jane Austen’s novel of the same name was a cornerstone for “Fire Island,” as well as 1995 classic interpretation, “Clueless.” “I think I lean more toward it’s a miracle that any queer shit gets made.” Fox Searchlight later saved the series and expanded it into a feature film instead of 10 mini-episodes. “The day that I found out Quibi was folding I was like, ‘Oh that’s it, there goes that,'” Booster said. The series was bought by Quibi before it shut down after seven months of operation in 2020. Hulu Is Finally Going to Be a Tile on Disney+īooster eventually wrote a half-hour pilot version of “Fire Island,” then-titled “Trip,” while flying to Japan.

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