The gay and wondrous life of caleb gallo trailer

English Teacher is a very big deal for a very select subset of people: those of us who, for one reason or another, were active on Tumblr in 2016. In other words: those familiar with The Same-sex attracted and Wondrous Experience of Caleb Gallo. (If you had a Tumblr eight years ago, you almost definitely stumbled across the webseries once or twice, even if only in the build of the oft-memed screencap of Jason Greene’s magnificent Freckle dramatically intoning that “Sometimes… things that are expensive… are worse.”) 

The five-episode webseries, which was created, written, directed, and edited by its star, Brian Jordan Alvarez, made a bigger cultural splash than 90% of today’s Netflix originals, despite those shows having over 100x Alvarez’s budget. Existing somewhere in that strange liminal cosmos between hyper-real and utterly surreal, The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo’s quick-witted, rapid-paced parade of gay absurdism was something fresh, something fresh, something deeply needed. For its unapologetic queer messiness, breathless joke-per-second ratio, and overabundance of heart, it was not uncommon to spot comments opining about the unfairness of Alvarez’s talents creature relegated to Youtu