Most Americans hadn’t heard about Crave before they produced the wildly popular gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry, but now the Canadian streaming service is set to become everyone’s favorite as they tackle lesbian sports stories and taboo romance.
First, Crave announced that it was busy making the sapphic softball mockumentary series Slo-Pitch from producer Elliot Paige, and then it dropped the news that they had also picked up horny boundary-pushing romance Five Brothers.
Five Brothers will adapt the romance novel of the same name by Penelope Douglas, best known for her taboo love stories like Credence, where a young woman sleeps with her step-uncle and step-cousins before falling in love with one of them.
Not only is the book the upcoming show is based on a smutty romance novel with tons of spicy sex scenes, but the author has promised that her sapphic novel set in the same world will also be included in the show.
Fans are already clamoring for Five Brothers to come out and are curious about what plot points will be included and which ones will end up on the cutting room floor.
What is 'Five Brothers' about?
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In the fictional town of Sanoa Bay, a young woman named Krisjen finds herself tangled up in the lives of the Jaeger brothers — Macon, Army, Iron, Dallas, and Trace — who come from the wrong side of the tracks. After spending the night with one of the brothers, she wakes up and can’t remember which one, so she has sex with four of them in an attempt to solve the mystery.
It’s a dark taboo romance that explores themes around mental health and the divide between the haves and the have-nots, with plentiful and explicit sex scenes.
While some readers talk about it as a reverse harem or “why choose” romance, where one female protagonist ends up with a group of men, in Five Brothers, while Krisjen has sex with multiple brothers, she ends up with only one love interest in the end.
So if you’re loving shows that don’t shy away from showing sex onscreen, like Heated Rivalry, Off Campus, or even Fellow Travelers, then this one will probably be a fave, especially since we know that Crave is making it and doesn’t have an issue letting directors film explicit sex scenes.
What is the 'Five Brothers' show about?
Crave has yet to release many details about the upcoming show, and we don’t have a cast list yet, but since the book it is being adapted from features five smoking hot brothers, we’re likely to get a handful of sexy actors to portray the roles.
“Five Brothers was such an immersive writing experience for me with a cast of characters I connected to immediately. I can’t wait to see these men brought to life," Douglas said in a statement.
Will 'Five Brothers' be queer?
Five Brothers is a heterosexual romance novel, but Douglas has confirmed that the show will also include the plot of her novel Six Tryst Venom, which is about the Jaeger brothers' lesbian sister’s love story.
Six Tryst Venom is a disturbing forbidden bully romance between two young women from opposite sides of town, both attending a private Catholic high school. The novel follows the wealthy “good girl” Clay Collins, who hides her sexuality by bullying poor scholarship student Olivia instead of confronting her sexual attraction to her.
So while the main plot is likely to revolve around Krisjen and her taboo relationship with a group of brothers, it looks like we’ll also be getting a sapphic romance based on a book that is full of explicit WLW sex scenes (including a standing scissoring scene with questionable physics).
When will 'Five Brothers' premiere?
A premiere date has not been released yet, but Crave is banking on the Five Brothers bringing in audiences who love spicy shows after the huge success of Heated Rivalry.
“Heated Rivalry proved there is global appetite for sexy, sophisticated, and mainstream romance stories. With complex lead characters, a boundary-pushing story, and a built-in audience, we’re excited to develop Crave’s next big swing in the romance genre,” Carlyn Klebuc, general manager, original programming at Crave parent company Bell Media, said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
