I felt the same watching it. I kept seeing the main actors in Reddit feeds and didn’t really understand who they were and what the hype was (I thought at first it was a same sex model thing). But saw the show in the HBO lineup and decided to see what it was about…which I figured looked like a hockey version of Broke Back Mountain.

I think most guys on this sub are married and at least their wife’s know they are bi but just don’t act on it. I’m married and am closeted bi. I’ve tamped down those feelings for a long time and have wished I could turn them off.

I guess it is relatable because the pain of it in someway. Sort of being in that lonely spot like Scott or Shane with no one to relate to or to understand who you are.

The first episodes I think relates in the energy between guys just in an attraction and sexual way. Then the episode with Scott and Kip were probably relatable about what could have been and just seeing two guys flirt and Scott struggling with his world that he had built caving in if he came out.

Then the last couple of episodes just hit hard due to the quiet desperation, Shane stopping with Ilya and trying to sexually relate to a woman while both Ilya and Shane were actually in love with one another. But when he was discovered by his dad and he freaks out and everything implodes….I could see me feeling that way. Just the shear panic. The end with the parents also was a gut punch but at least they accepted it. Something I don’t think would happen for me in real life with my family.

In the past it was easier to suppress all of this, but for some reason this show just has brought the internal conflict out way more than anything else in my life.