Episode summaries[edit source]
Episode 1: Meet the Twins[edit source]
In the debut episode, Jacob and Joshua, Nemesis, are introduced. Jacob is the blond and Joshua is the brunette. They have been under contract to Curb Records for several years but have not progressed beyond the point of recording demo tracks. The boys live together in Los Angeles along with Jacob's boyfriend Nick. Joshua is single, and while Jacob and Nick are fairly domestic, Joshua actively tries to meet men on the internet and at West Hollywood gay clubs The Abbey and iCandy (itself the subject of an earlier Logo reality series, Open Bar).
Nemesis has a meeting the next morning with their manager, Garry Kief. Garry tells the boys that Curb is conditionally ready to commit to producing a single, album and appearances for them. Curb plans to mention in any marketing material that Jacob and Joshua are gay. Jacob is ready to come out to anyone and everyone, including his Jehovah's Witness parents. Joshua is much more reluctant. The boys argue about how being known as gay could negatively affect them both professionally and personally. Ultimately they decide to go home to Montana although Joshua says he may still not be able to tell them he's gay.
Episode 2: Coming Out in Montana[edit source]
Joshua continues to stress over coming out to his parents, while Jacob invites Nick to go to Montana with them. They plan to have Nick come up toward the end of the visit. Joshua thinks bringing Nick is a bad idea.
The twins fly to Montana and their mother Sherry picks them up at the airport. Back at the house they meet up with brother Jordan and sister Sarah calls home. Dad Rex gets home as well.
As Jacob and Joshua get acquainted with the family's new horses and socialize with the family, Sherry, Rex and the twins interview about being Jehovah's Witnesses. The twins, who've left the religion, note that homosexuality is considered a sin and Joshua especially stresses over the secret he's carrying.
Over a family dinner on the porch, Jacob comes out to their parents on behalf of the two of them. Jordan and Sarah already knew. Sherry and Rex are hard-hit by the news. Sherry and Rex talk about their reactions interspersed with scenes of them telling the boys that they still love them. Sherry interviews that she believes the Bible tells her the God hates homosexuality and that homosexuals won't "inherit the kingdom." Rex interviews that his sons' homosexuality isn't "anything [he] wish[es] to see" and nothing he wants to embrace. He says he still loves them and he will embrace them and not judge them, but that he won't allow it to be part of his and Sherry's "arrangement" because of how they believe. Sherry notes that she thinks Joshua has an "agenda."
Joshua tells Jacob that he thought their parents' reaction was "freaky good" and that things went just as he had hoped. Jacob expresses his relief that for the first time he can set "the gay issue" aside, but interviews that Nick is coming and he hopes his parents can meet him.
Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising is a reality television program originating on the LGBT network Logo. It follows identical twin brothers Jacob and Joshua Miller, who together comprise the pop duo Nemesis, as they seek success in the music business as openly gay artists. The series premiered on October 16, 2006.
The series is available for download at the iTunes Store, along with a clip show retrospective entitled The Music of Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising. It is currently airing in Canada on OUTtv.
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Hmmm. So, The Miller twins of the Nemesis Rising band who are openly gay are also ex-Jehovah's Witnesses. Homosexuality is considered to be a "sin" by the JW's, I personally think that such a view is wrong. Their mother believes that the Bible "tells" her that Yahweh "hates" homosexuality and that homosexuals "won't inherit the kingdom". Well Sherry, have you proven that this belief is true or is it just want you want to believe because of personal discomfort that you have with homosexuality? I think if you god existed and was loving, that homosexuals should inherit the kingdom, why should bigots like you be given eternal life? Did you ever consider that the Bible is wrong and that Yahweh has no reason to hate homosexuality, Sherry? Rex views his two sons' homosexuality as being something that he doesn't "want to see". Homosexuality isn't all about sex, dude. He claims it is not anything that he wants to "embrace".
Well, you should accept it Rex, as it is because it isn't going to change. He claims that he loves his sons , that he will embrace then and not judge them, but he won't allow their sons' homosexuality to be part of the "arrangement" that he and his wife have because of how they believe and Sherry thinks that her son, Joshua has an "agenda". Oh really, Sherry? What "agenda" would that be? Rex may loves his sons, but he actually is judging them by not learning to get over the fact his twin sons are gay and learn to accept their homosexuality as it is and stick his nose out of their private romantic and sexual affairs. What you believe Sherry and Rex, requires you to deny a reality that is a part of your sons' lives and denial of it, won't make their homosexuality go away. You should accept your sons' homosexuality as a part of your "arrangement" regardless of what you believe because your beliefs could be wrong. Your beliefs seems to hold some inherently bad ideas anyway. I feel sorry for Joshua and Jacob for having such homophobic parents. This is one reason why I left the JW's, attitudes like that of Sherry and Rex Miller made me realize that I didn't fit in the JW's. I was never homophobic and I don't want to be. I never wanted to be a bigot. The sex lives of other people are not my business.
Sincerely,
B.W.
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