"Nemesis Rising"
10 p.m. Oct. 16
Logo
Joshua and Jacob Miller come off like a bitter married couple.
"He really irritates me sometimes," Jacob says of the distressful morning he's had with his gay identical twin brother. "We've been doing these interviews and sometimes he answers the questions and it's like, 'OK, be quiet.'"
Joshua knew, though, from the moment Jacob stumbled out of bed with his shaggy hair that he'd be irritable. But who ever said bickering gay brothers didn't make for interesting television? After all, if a ditzy blonde singer can create a stir as a newlywed, surely these 20-somethings' blue eyes and brawny bodies will lure viewers when "Nemesis Rising" premieres at 10 p.m. Oct. 16 on Logo.
The show will follow the Miller brothers as they search for pop stardom in Los Angeles.
"We weren't expecting to ever have a reality series about us," Jacob says.
But now, nearly finished shooting the seventh episode, Joshua calls it "invasive" having crew saunter through their place at 7 in the morning. It's no wonder Jacob's been a bit crabby.
If there's one sentiment viewers take away from the show, Jacob hopes people, straight and gay, will see that "we're all just looking for success, and love, and happiness and life."
At the very least the small town brothers from Montana, where they grew up on country music and Elvis Presley, have began their success run with a Curb record deal. After moving to Nashville, they began recording in a dinky apartment of someone they met from Belmont University. Once the demos reached the associate dean of music, she sent them to Mike Curb, now the chairman of Curb Records.
He arranged lunch with the duo and signed them to his label. The music label boosts a lengthy list of country crooners including Wynonna Judd and Tim McGraw, but the brothers who comprise Nemesis assure us their music isn't like that in twang-town.
"We're definitely a break from the mold for them," Joshua says of their pop/rock sound.
In Nashville, Jacob and Joshua let loose and lived on the edge. But Joshua noticed his brother's behavior changing. When he opened Joshua's bag, he found condoms and bottles of lube inside.
"I knew something was going on," Joshua says. When he confronted his brother, Jacob told him he was seeing a guy. Joshua considered using this against him by telling their parents.
"But after I calmed down a little bit I think that was really the catalyst for me to start examining who I really was," Joshua says.
When it came time to reveal it to their parents, they knew that coming from a family of Jehovah Witnesses wouldn't ease the process.
"It's difficult anyways to come out as a gay person to your parents," Joshua says. "With Jehovah Witnesses … it's more intense."
