Like Brooke’s brother Chase and mom Pat, he becomes accidentally famous, after those designs take off. In the first season of the series, Lance worked at Foot Locker and brainstormed wacky ideas for his own sneakers. She didn’t expect that they would end up being a perfect match-let alone that there would be something profound about Lance’s generally ecstatic nature, which would force her to change her own life. Lance is Brooke’s fiancé, a man she started dating because he was attractive and obsessed with her. They are siblings who aspire for fame and success in the entertainment industry, are constantly kneecapped in that pursuit by a level of toxic delusion that is sadly all-too-relatable, and then must attempt to observe with dignity as their younger brother (Chase Walker) and mother (Molly Shannon) accidentally achieve superstardom instead. The Other Two begins its third season this week, picking up its tale of thirtysomething brother and sister Cary (Drew Tarver) and Brooke (Heléne Yorke). He may actually be the most enlightened among us. But spend some time chatting with Segarra and getting to the root of Lance’s perspective on life, and you come away realizing that Lance is not an “idiot” at all. On social media, Lance, thanks to Segarra’s brilliant performance, has been praised as the king of what’s become known as the pop culture phenomenon of “hot idiots”: characters who delight in simple pleasures to a buffoonish extent, whose lives are unbothered, because their attractiveness is a privilege. And those attributes are-and he is-extremely attractive. Lance is the kind of person who looks at every moment and processes it through a filter consisting of rainbows, butterflies, and sprinkles on an ice cream sundae. The comedy is a biting showbiz satire that’s also about thirty-something existentialism, while also probing the question of whether pure happiness is attainable in these post-COVID, chaotic, everyday-seems-like-a-new-doomsday times. Segarra plays a character who echoes that perspective, Lance Arroyo on the HBO Max series The Other Two. They are arias of earnestness, sincere praise from a person whose unrelenting enthusiasm shouldn’t seem real-except for the fact that, when you experience it in person, it is so touching and so infectious that it is actually the most tangible thing you could encounter in this cynical, superficial age. When he speaks about them, his speeches aren’t just tributes. He loves Nickelodeon, musical theater, and Justin Bieber.
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