Though guys on the “down low” have always been around, it’s only recently that a name has been put to their surreptitious activities and a variety of artistic endeavors created to depict them. This trio of sexy, well-acted episodes from a new here! Networks TV series is a worthy addition to the genre, offering a wide ranging look at the different ways African American men secretly engage in homosexual activity while outwardly living a heterosexual life.

In episode one, married buppie Wes finds himself drawn to his brother-in-law Trent, whose bewitching eyebrows and killer abs offer temptations he can’t resist. In the middle, and most substantial, episode, a conflicted man named Robert falls for Austin, a younger guy from Belize, but hides the relationship from the key woman in his life. Sheilynn Wactor offers a spirited supporting turn as Austin’s co-worker Shirley. In the final segment, an unreconstructed Black male (i.e., a playa) named Boo slings his stuff around for pretty much anything on two legs and discovers that promiscuity can have consequences he never imagined.

Taken together, these three provocative storylines — with rich R&B-infused music written expressly for the show punctuating each one — effectively delineate the variety of social and class-related situations that lead African American men away from lives of honesty and openness and into the world of the downlow.