Fire Island is streaming on Hulu now, and it is the fun summer romp everyone needs. It explores a week in Fire Island, New York amongst a group of gay men visiting their lesbian friend's vacation house. It is full of friendship, romance, betrayal, judgment, and love. Fire Island is the latest modern film to adapt Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and certainly the first Austen adaptation to embrace a very gay summer vacation as its setting.

1995's Clueless is still the most popular and best modernized adaptation of the Austen classic, but Fire Island should not be missed. The character arcs are wonderful, and the movie has some truly laugh-out-loud moments courtesy of Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang. Margaret Cho is pitch-perfect as the proverbial 'fairy gaymother' of the ragtag group of men. And for straight people, Fire Island gives us a delicious glimpse into the frivolity and mayhem of a Fire Island vacation.

Let's dive into the similarities between Fire Island and Pride & Prejudice, because this new movie is poised to become as quotable as Clueless is. Yes, it is that Fetch.

Fire Island Puts the Jane Austen Classic in a Queer World

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In 1813, Pride & Prejudice was released, and it was the bestseller of its time. Set in that era, the story follows Elizabeth Bennet as she navigates love, friends, and family. Over the course of the novel, she learns the difference between superficiality and truth. Fire Island takes the basic premise of Austen's novel but instead of being set in the 19th century England (or mid-1990's Los Angeles, à la Clueless), it is set on Fire Island a vacation hotspot for LGBTQ+ people. Fire Island's writer, Joel Kim Booster turned the Bennets, specifically Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Lydia, and Kitty into Howie (Bowen Yang), Noah (Booster), Max (Torian Miller), Luke (Matt Rogers), and Keegan (Tomas Matos).

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In the film, Howie says, “You find the family that can fill in the gaps,” which is apt for his group (the gay Bennets), especially once they meet Will (Darcy) and his uptight, wealthy, preppy group of friends.

Fire Island Updates Pride and Prejudice Characters

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The era in which Austen's Pride and Prejudice is set is all about social classes. So is the gay and lesbian social scene of Fire Island. In a voiceover as the "Bennets" make their way to Fire Island, Noah (Elizabeth) says, “In our community, money isn’t the only form of currency. Race, masculinity, abs… just a few of the metrics we use to separate ourselves into upper and lower classes.”

Noah's group of friends are colorful and delightfully messy. When they encounter the film's versions of Mr. Darcy (Will, played by Conrad Ricamora), Charles Bingley (Charlie, played by James Scully), and Caroline Bingley (Cooper, played by Nick Adams) at the Blue Whale's "Low Tea," the differences between Noah and his friends and Will and his friends are stark. Will and his gang are staying at an enormous, modern mansion on Fire Island's chic Ocean Walk. By comparison, Erin's (Margaret Cho) house is positively Bohemian and shabby.

Margaret Cho is the Updated Mrs. Bennet

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Comedienne Margaret Cho is delightful as Erin, Fire Island's version of Mrs. Bennet. She's less meddling than Austen's version, but as the lesbian "mother figure" to a group of lovably colorful gay men, she'd have to be more permissive. The irony for Cho is, that this role is finally everything she's strived for in her career. She's been an outspoken advocate for LBGTQ+ issues and more inclusive entertainment for the entire length of her 30+ year career.

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Fire Island's Underwear Party is Austen’s Netherfield Ball

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In Austen's novel, formal events are the social events of the season, and in Pride and Prejudice, the crème de la crème of all events is the Netherfield Ball. Fire Island delightfully exchanges the formality of the Netherfield Ball for The Underwear Party, which delivered some of the most hilarious moments and lines in the film. Howie tripping balls on Molly is a gift. Noah and Will make meaningful eye contact from across the room and are eventually forced to dance closely together as the room becomes more and more packed. Austen's Regency Era Brits have nothing on modern gay men when come to sensuality.

Dex and Luke are Mr. Wickham and Lydia Bennet

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In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet learns a lesson from Mr. Wickham. The much older man was just toying with her affections. In Fire Island, Luke (Rogers) falls for the incredibly handsome Dex (Zane Phillips), making them Lydia and Mr. Wickham. Luke is pretty high on drugs at the Underwear Party and ends up having sex with Dex. Dex then uploads a video he took while they were having sex to the internet without Luke's permission.

Luke felt lucky that someone who looked like Dex was so into him, and he was betrayed by him. Consent is a hot-button issue overall today, but especially in the gay community, which gives this part of the movie considerable weight. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia gives up some of her power to Mr. Wickham. In Fire Island Luke does the same thing with Dex, but gets redemption in the end when Noah and Will force Dex to delete the offending video. Like much of Fire Island, it's a surprising, unique, queer update of the great Pride and Prejudice.