Best Men

Best friends since childhood, Max and Paige are seemingly in sync with everything—until Paige announces her engagement to Austin and wants Max to be her man of honor. Max bemoans Paige’s upcoming nuptials because he believes he should’ve been the first one to get married. He is the one with an eight-year relationship (that recently downgraded into booty calls with his ex) and an office job (that he despises). To add insult to injury, Paige has asked Austin’s brother and best man, Chasten, to help plan the wedding festivities. Now Max has to worry about his status as “gay best friend” being taken by the handsome, put-together, younger man. Curtis Michael Holland performs Max with a sardonic voice of impending doom that softens once he and Chasten begin to get to know each other. Holland speaks with an air of confidence in every scene as Chasten and performs Paige and other women characters with high-pitch tones. Paige is characterized as indecisive and self-centered; one knows when she’s speaking because she’s being the worst.