A screenshot from the locker room scene in S1E1 of "Heated Rivalry." Wearing only an enticingly low-slung towel, Ilya looms over an anxious Shane while proposing a hookup for that evening. Plus an excerpt from "Blood & Beauty" by Sarah Dunant, a novel I'm currently reading. Here, Dunant is describing Cesare Borgia who, as it happens, was portrayed by François Arnaud in the 2011 TV series, "The Borgias": "In the golden light of the afternoon the body looks as tender as it is strong: the sheen of sweat along the muscles of the upper torso, the scattering of hair around the nipples, the taut stomach and the vulnerable hollow inside the hip as it dips toward the groin and the tucked sheet. ... While youth is blithely immune to the threat of age, the thickening flesh, the dulling of the glow, young men judge each other’s bodies with clear enough eyes and they know when they are outclassed. It is not only the athletic beauty; it is the very way he holds himself, aware and unaware at the same time, as if the world exists only to wait on him when he is ready." ~Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
Awaiting season 3, we endure.
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