The Christmas Setup could've easily been a heterosexual movie—minus, ya know, the maybe-joke about bottoming—and that's why it's groundbreaking.
There's no gay trauma porn, no identity struggles, no raging homophobic neighbors. Just a heartwarming Christmas romance between two men. “The fact that it's so unremarkable, in the context of the movie, that it is two men, is actually more progressive in its own way,” Lewis said about the film. “We hope this is just opening a door for even more diverse representation, for queer people of color, trans people, nonbinary people.”It has shades of what Hulu just did with , its queer holiday rom-com centered on two women (Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis).