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It certainly is a Hollywood ending. On the corner of Hollywood Boulevard, a gas station that should be consigned to obscurity and whispered reveries is now going to be immortalized as the opening scene of a big Hollywood movie. In the year 1948, nearly 60 years before Brokeback Mountain, most of the cast and crew behind Ace Pictures’ Meg are reunited for the first glossy romance about two gay men. And in it, Rock Hudson (Jack Piercing) wears a spiffy white uniform while promising to take a skittish John (David Corenswet playing actor Jack Castello) to Dreamland. Together they drive off to a better future.

Thus the title card that ends the series is “The Beginning” instead of “the end.”

An unmistakable declaration of intent, creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan do not view this as the end of...