Logo's Fire Island

So, I apologize if someone has already posted but did a search and did not find anything. Anway, I was wondering if anybody has watched Logo's show Fire Island and what they thought about it. I haven't watched it, but am curious to. wanted to hear what people thought of the show.

http://www.logotv.com/shows/fire-island

I tried but only watched 5 minutes before I had to turn it off. Not good.

I didn't watch it, though I know a few friends who did and enjoyed it enough. For me, my issue isn't that it's a trashy reality show- I don't think any homophobes are watching Fire Island just to get proof that we're all promiscuous sluts. I just found it ridiculously boring. The guys are all good-looking, but I can find that elsewhere.

Having spent many summers in the Pines, I found the show to be pretty close to what it was like. The guys I was with weren't as promiscuous as that group, but the show is true to life in many ways. Having said that, I don't think their lives on the island are interesting enough for a tv show.

adamgreer said: "I don't watch the show, but have two friends that have. They feel completely differently about it- one loves it and calls it his guilty pleasure, the other thinks it's damaging to gay America because it perpetuates the stereotype that all gay men are promiscuous."

Both of those opinions can easily co-exist.

I don't think my experience was limited. I spent quite a bit of time at other houses, and they were so varied, as you say. My experiences ran the gamut. On the Pines, we went to lots of pretty wild parties, for which without them, the Pines wouldn't be the Pines! Of course we had plenty of friends who were the opposite of party boys. Our house was one example. One interesting fact is that our house was next to Calvin Klein's (yes, a looooong time ago) and our view was into his pool, lol.

Back in the day, the Grove wasn't at all wild, but pretty quiet, as it was where the older set lived. The wild times there were going to the parties and dancing at the Ice Palace.

Anyway, you're right newintown, there are all types of people on the pines. I should have been more explicit in pointing that out.

Dear lord just watching the trailer I got the sense of vapid shallowness. Pass!

I spend a week in Cherry Grove with friends every summer and it's always a highlight of the year. Yeah, there are parties and sex to be had, but there's also the fact you are on a gorgeous island with friends.

"I can't imagine spending an entire summer there, quarter-sharing a sh*t shack with five other people, sounds like a real blast."

Well, from one who spent weekends there with a group of best friends, those were the most fabulous times of my life.

Actually, now that I re read "sh*t shack", I'll have to speak up. I don't know who stays in those, but our house was in Architectural Digest..And as I said, the "five other" people were all long time close friends.

I did spend some time at East Hampton and disliked it. Too snooty for me.

There are certainly gorgeous, gorgeous homes in the Pines. But there are quite a few that are decidedly less glamorous, particularly in the innermost walks furthest from the water.

I've been to the Pines, yes.

And Kad, Yup. They're either jaw-droppingly gorgeous homes owned by the 1%ers, or they're dumps further inland.

^ You seem angry about the, harsh real estate realities shall we say, that exist on Fire Island.

500k for a two bedroom? Certainly not my 500k.

I respect that you're nostalgic, and that you 'had the time of your life' on Fire Island. That's awesome you got to stay in a house straight out of "Architectural Digest." Not eveyone can afford that. Which is what I was merely pointing out.

Don't get me started on the Pines/Cherry Grove War. That's just ridiculous.

Like I said, great for you. My experience of the island was different, and its fine.

You think I seem angry? ok, you're entitled to your opinion.

"I can't imagine spending an entire summer there, quarter-sharing a sh*t shack with five other people, sounds like a real blast."

You sound like something didn't go very well for you, writing that sarcastic reply to my having a good time there.

To be clear, I am not a rich girl. We were guests of our friends who paid for the rental of the house. One of the houses we stayed at was built and designed by our friend, who could afford it. The house still stands, it is on the beach, but with time, and the passing of our friend, additions were built onto the house and it no longer has the charm it once had.

I didn't know there was a Pines/Cherry Grove war going on.

p.s. You said you prefer the Hamptons? That's where the 1% go. It makes Fire Island look like Cannery Row.

Updated On: 6/7/17 at 10:38 AM