Fire Island Ending Explained (In Detail)
Warning: This article includes spoilers for Fire Island.
Hulu's romantic comedy Fire Island ends on a positive note for all of its characters, something that may seem cliched for the genre, but is actually a little more nuanced than it could initially seem. Written by and starring Joel Kim Booster, who also worked on Netflix's animated show Big Mouth, Fire Island follows his character Noah and his group of friends as they go to Fire Island for a weeklong vacation. This includes his closest friend Howie, played by Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang. Howie has never been in a relationship, but Noah is convinced that if he hooks up with someone on vacation, some of Howie's woes could potentially be cured.
When Howie and Noah meet a man named Charlie (James Scully) and his friends Will (Conrad Ricamora), and Braden (Aidan Wharton), Howie is enamored with Charlie. Still, Charlie's friends don't exactly think the pair is a match, suspecting that Howie is just trying to take advantage of Charlie's wealth and status as a doctor. Meanwhile, Noah has his own complicated feelings about meeting Ricamora's Will. What follows is a week of humor, heart, and self-reflection that acts as a modern LGBTQ+ take on Jane Austen's classic novel Pride & Prejudice.
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Howie, Noah, Charlie, Will, and the rest of their friends spend the week getting to know each other and, after everything they go through, Charlie proclaims his fondness for Howie in a typical romantic comedy ending. This happens even after some of Charlie's friends fly in his ex-boyfriend Rhys in an attempt to get him away from Howie. Charlie feels a debt towards Rhys and his friends know that, but Noah helps him
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