So, Dante’s Cove is not exactly Oscar material. However, what it lacks in credible and compelling plotlines and character development, this gay melodrama makes up for with muscled eye candy and gratuitous full frontals.
The thin plot line mostly provides an excuse for greased up pretty boy action and a few token lesbian sex scenes. Then again, who’s complaining? The show is set on an idyllic island with a strong (and often sinister) supernatural energy – known as Tresum. The two main purveyors of Tresum are Ambrosius and Grace, a quasi-immortal pair who were engaged back in 1840. Things went pear-shaped for the couple, however, when Grace walked in on Ambrosius lending his backside to the pleasure of one of the island’s beefy males. Grace cursed her lover and left him chained and aged, where he remained for 150 years until the kiss of a young stud named Kevin freed Ambrosius and returned him to his youth.
Ambrosius fixates on Kevin, using Tresum learned from Grace’s sister (played by one of the ever wonderful Thea Gill of the American Queer as Folk) to try to lure Kevin away from his boyfriend Toby. Toby, however, enlists help of his supernaturally inclined friend Vanessa (who has her own lesbionic mini-drama with femme Michelle… yowsa, more of that please!) to protect Kevin.
As though gay love triangles weren’t complicated enough, add a few Tresum spells and a Dante Cove special drug known as Saint and things get really interesting… and hot. All in all, those who want a break from Passions hetero drama, will find Dante’s Cove: the Second Season equally light on plot and heavy on action.
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