Within the first five minutes this erotic thriller queer soap opera grabs you and holds your attention.
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Dante’s Cove begins in the year 1840 with the upcoming nuptials of Ambrosius (William Gregory Lee) and Grace (Tracy Scoggins). They meet on a street and when a young woman smiles at Ambrosius and gives him a friendly “hello” Grace turns her head around eyes glaring (literally) and kills the woman right there on the street.
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Next at Ambrosisus’ home the two have a minor fight and off she goes. When the coast is clear he calls for his manservant and he in fact does a little servicing of his own on the butler (Earl McDougle aka Jourdain Dion).
Realizing she’s left her gloves behind, she goes back to get them catching the two in the throes of getting it on. She never could figure it out why he wasn’t sexually interested in her before the wedding night and now the truth comes out.
Grace vents her wrath on the nude butler (and after a little digging it’s not a prosthetic device which was applied) killing him and then puts a curse on the young Ambrosius. Through her powers she turns him into an old man chained in the basement of his house. The curse will be broken once a young man kisses him.
Fast forward to modern day where we meet happy couple Kevin (Gregory Michael) and Toby (Charlie David). The two spend one last day together before Toby has to head back to his home in Dante’s Cove.
After an argument they decide to break up leaving both men hurt and upset. It’s not until later when Kevin returns home and after an argument with his stepfather he moves out and heads to Dante’s Cove to live with the love of his life.
When Kevin arrives in the middle of the night he heads to Dante Hotel where the nightlife is still going strong. The first person he meets is Cory (Josh Berresford) who’s been expecting Kevin. He introduces him to the residents at Ambrosius’ former home.
Toby’s best friend Van (Nadine Heimann) can hardly wait to meet Kevin and she nonchantly mentions a few odd facts about the place. When Toby finally gets home from work the two can’t get enough of each other.
At this hotel the only thing these residents seem to do is party and most of the remainder of the first disc is devoted to the party and getting to know the ton of characters (which is hard to keep up with). Finding some alone time our boy heroes go to the beach for some much needed TLC.
Since they forgot to bring libations Kevin goes back to the hotel and while in the basement keeps hearing his name being called through the cellar. He opens it and after going downstairs discovers the old Ambrosius who kisses him.
With having the spell broken he can force Kevin to do anything just by using his glaing eyes. Kevin slices his wrist open and manages to escape. Bloody Toby finds him and takes him immediately to the hospital allowing Ambrosius to walk the streets freely.
Most of the second disc revolves around Kevin being in the hospital and fighting off the voice of Ambrosius, who is now in love with Kevin.
While Kevin can’t fight off the voices in his head he walks to the lighthouse where Ambrosius has set up shop and the two go at it all night. (Kevin’s in a catatonic state and doesn’t remember any of this since the doctors at the hospital insist he was trying to commit suicide).
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But wait! Van is walking her girlfriend home when she sees the catatonic Kevin wondering around and the next morning mentions something to Toby about seeing him. She also visits Kevin at the hospital and tells him about what she saw. Kevin, of course, can’t remember a thing.
Ambrosius picks up Cory and turns him into a zombie of sorts so he can have him break up Toby and Kevin. Cory goes to the hospital and makes up stories about Toby to make Kevin mad. Then he visits Toby at the bar he works at and tells him stories about Kevin that are false as well. Keep in mind that this is all while hearing Ambrosius in his head.
It gets even better as Grace returns to confront Ambrosius. She ends up killing Kevin who comes back to life after Ambrosius kisses him.
Toby and Van, in the meantime, are at the historical society when they discover that Grace has powers. It is then that they get the news when they go to the hospital that Kevin killed himself.
Confused? Me too.
Even though there are two discs to the set I think this should have been one big pilot for the series. Sure there are unanswered questions (the second season will be coming out shortly) and I think after watching this a couple of more times I may be able to get into this series.
The plot is certainly fresh in this reality television age and it looks like there are more characters in the second season. (Thea Gill from Queer As Folk is one of the new characters).
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If the writers were able to flesh out some of the confusion for the second season this may be better than Queer As Folk but then again the only thing we can do is wait until the second season comes out.
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