Was first developed as a series titled "Trip" for the now-defunct streaming television network Quibi.
Based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".
There are multiple mentions of the friends making a podcast. Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, who play Howie and Luke, are the hosts of the popular podcast "Las Culturistas." Joel Kim Booster (Noah) has appeared on the podcast multiple times.
Sparked a brief controversy over whether it passed the "Bechdel Test." This "test" is to see if female characters are portrayed prominently, and has three parts: 1. Are there at least two female characters. 2. They speak to each other. 3. Their conversation is about something other than a man. Critics said that the movie failed miserably. Alison Bechdel herself countered that, being about gay men; and Asian gay man at that; it should get a pass, as it showed a different kind of inclusivity. She tweeted: "Okay, I just added a corollary to the Bechdel test: Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel = pass. #FireIsland #BechdelTest."
The characters and situations in this movie map quite closely onto their source material, Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Noah (Joel Kim Booster) is the movie's version of Pride and Prejudice's main character, Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Bennet, with Will (Conrad Ricamora) the Mr. Darcy analogue. Howie (Bowen Yang) and Charlie (James Scully) are equivalent to Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley; Luke (Matt Rogers), Keegan (Tomás Matos), and Max (Torian Miller) are the film's versions of Lizzie's sisters Lydia, Kitty, and Mary. Erin (Margaret Cho) is the equivalent of the Bennets' mother. Dex (Zane Phillips) is equivalent to George Wickham, and Cooper (Nick Adams) to Charles's sister Caroline Bingley.