Julien in The Shield

*SPOILERS FOR ALL 7 SEASONS OF THE SHIELD*

Okay here's another rant for a show that I haven't shared to many people

There is a character in a FX crime procedural The Shield named Julian Lowe. And he has one storyline for his character

He's gay

And how does his storyline play out

T E R R I B L Y 

After struggling for a while with internalized anti gay hatred he places himself into conversion therapy, forces himself to be straight and marries a woman. But guess what, that isn't the end of it. While trying to have a child he goes to a sperm bank and masturbates to gay porn and we have a scene where he aggressively reacts to a fellow cop named Tina when she says she has no problem with gay people and a brief scene that i didn't even remember until I went to the Wikipedia page to suggest he still had a desire to be himself......IN THE FINAL EPISODE!!!!!!!

Wow. A great opportunity to have a good plot for a gay character dealing with anti gay sentiment and self hatred and absolutely do nothing with it and sideline his character. You can disagree with me and argue that sometimes people never get a happy ending and yes i can see, although in my view it is a terrible representation of a gay character and i wouldn't recommend it to queer folk