buck and eddie bickering while jerking off together. the bickering isn't even related to this parallel play, they're multitasking

okay so. this is fine.

The fact that the very first time Shane gives Ilya a blowjob and Ilya has to stop him because he’s seconds away from blowing his load, it’s not even because Shane is particularly good at it- he’s not, at that point. It’s just that it’s Shane.

Ilya is so fucking dumbstruck by Shane Fucking Hollander on his knees for him that it rewires his entire brain.

adding a blank emoji to my discord server might be the best thing to ever happen to text communication. asynchronous digital equivalent of hanging out in a room with your friends in silence. let's all nothing together

Honestly my favourite moment in the whole show is right after the “you missssssed meeee” “I fucking didn’t” when they both try to race up the stairs and they’re like shoving each other and it’s so dumb and silly and then they immediately have beautiful romantic sex. I love that they’re always like slapping each other, and chirping, and just general “boys will be boys nonsense” and then following that with being passionately in love. No one else is doing like Hollanov.

my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"

As a queer person who has had this kind of conversation with my straight mother, I'm obsessed with Ilya's reaction to Yuna saying he and Shane staying in the closet and keeping their relationship a secret for the rest of their careers is sad. That feeling when someone's catching up to your lived experience over the last decade.

Jacob Tierney delivering 4 episodes in a row with multiple narratively relevant, hot as fuck sex scenes & then episode 5 has NONE AT ALL and is still just as good in a way that is like… tonally & aesthetically cohesive?!?! But also introduces new elements such as our two idiot heroes actually communicating & comforting each other, the profound, heart-healing hope of Scott Hunter kissing Kip Grady on the ice, and me bawling over a man confessing love in Russian?

Unbelievable vision and execution. A generational talent.

Ilya giggling at Shane's "still play against each other hard on the ice" is both an adorable moment and a nice little way to remind us all that while Ilya may not be able to parse "narrative" at ass o'clock in the morning, he's absolutely gonna recognize an unintended innuendo ANY time of day or night no matter the words he's gotta translate in real time. He's not passing that up ever.