Where the Bears Are (2012)

Genre

LGBTQ-related film, LGBT-related television series

Country

United States

Length

7 seasons, 137 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three gay bear roommates in Silver Lake keep getting pulled into murder investigations. Each season follows a different mystery over multiple episodes.

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What happens

Where the Bears Are is a comedy-mystery web series that ran for seven seasons from August 1, 2012, to November 1, 2018. The series' creators and writers Rick Copp and Ben Zook star in the series together with Joe Dietl. Described by the creators as a cross between The Golden Girls and Murder, She Wrote, the series focuses on Nelson (Zook), Wood (Dietl) and Reggie (Copp), three gay, bear friends sharing a house in the Silver Lake neighborhood who, in each season, are drawn into a different murder investigation which plays out as a season-long story arc. In 2023, a documentary chronicling the series and its popularity, A Big Gay Hairy Hit! Where The Bears Are: The Documentary, premiered at various LGBTQ+ film festivals. During the end credits, the documentary paid tribute to series actor George Unda, who died in 2021, and screenwriter/director of the BearCity films Doug Langway, who died in 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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