it's teezy bby

FULL of women. Lots of women of color by the way. In this town of 5,000 people.

MANY of the characters in that rural Canadian town are, in some flavor, queer. In this town of 5,000 people.

Are they queer because they're swingers? Are they queer because they're poly? Are they queer because they're gay/lesbians? Are they queer because they have zero interest in any kind of sex? Are they queer because they are outside of traditional patriachal norms (as Trish the women's studies professor explains to Squirrly Dan and Squirrly Dan brings back to Wayne and Dale)?

TAKE YOUR FUCKING PICK.

But my point is that you are dealing with Jacob Teirney - a man who spent roughly 12 and 2 seasons writing shows about Hockey and Rural Life - what on the surface SEEMS profoundly masculine - but then turns out...

OH HEY! LOOK AT ALL THESE LADIES THEYDIES AND GAYDIES!

These two were in a throuple with her

There is an entire EPISODE about how the relationship doesn't work if she isn't dating BOTH of them.

Their most important relationship is with each other. It's platonic, they don't want to fuck each other? But they dont have anyone they care about more. Their ideal relationship is one woman they share so they can share a life.

Jacob Tierney's whole...thing? Has been writing "hey you know how homosocial hockey society is weird and fucked up and kinda queer - not even necessarily men fucking each other but just...men creating male societies that are Not Straight?"

Coach is part of that too. How he has no concept of how to interact socially since his wife died because she was the only woman he was connected with and since the the only interactions he has are with the hockey players? And that's it? That's his circle?

Heated Rivalry is a part of that. It's part of Jacob Tierney and Jared Keeso's...whole...EVERYTHING. They're both so deep in the hockey world had have been their entire lives and it shows in everything they've ever written because they love it so much.