With the HFPA-less Golden Globes behind us (and Jokoy taking the stage as host and getting a landslide of criticism in one of the most thankless jobs in Hollywood), I guess you can say that awards season has kicked off and we are barely two weeks into 2024.
As I look at this FYC landscape and what I think, should, and will win Oscars, Emmys and all the Hollywood accolades, I look at Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp‘s Dicks: The Musical and say, “Hollywood is overlooking a cinematic treasure.”
It’s fine that The Color Purple musical took the awards season stage as thee musical choice of the year, but Dicks is an exceptional piece of art that subverts the landfill that is Hollywood. Dicks should be a strong contender because it’s original, introduces us to the Sewer Boys,brings a John Waters energy that is blatantly missing in the industry and, most of all, it’s hella queer.
Originally an Upright Citizens Brigade improv show titled Fucking Identical Twins from Jackson and Sharp, the Larry Charles-directed musical follows two self-obsessed businessmen Trevor and Craig (Jackson and Sharp) who discover they’re long-lost identical twins. They decide to band together and reunite their wildly eccentric divorced parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally) as if they were in The Parent Trap.
Dicks also stars Bowen Yang as God as well as Megan Thee Stallion as Trevor and Craig’s boss. That said, I was gunning for Dicks to be in the Best Song category (and score too!) and I am still caping for it so I made penis-shaped cotton candy gummies with my own THC-infused oil.
Although Dicks isn’t the awards season contender like Barbie or The Color Purple (and it was lightyears better than Wonka) I want it to be, I am maintaining hope that Megan Thee Stallion’s “Out Alpha the Alpha” and the joyous finale song “All Love is Love” will make its way to the Oscar ballot and if I have to lead the charge by my damn self then so be it.
In the mean time, I’ll enjoy my penis gummies while enjoying the soundtrack.
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