I loved almost every aspect of Kit and Mike's relationship. They were fun and real and imperfect and sweet. Sexy and sweet, charming and funny, Michael Ausiello somehow manages to turn a story of loss into a hopeful tale that shines with warmth and wit. Lauren Graham Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies Release Date Update". Focus Features. June 15, 2022. Archived from the original on September 1, 2022 . Retrieved June 16, 2022. This is one such book which wants you to root for the characters but once you know them intimately the outer layer diminishes and you realize you were rooting for another human being after all. They are not always goofy and golden. And what really feels like a punch in the gut that before you know anything about them you know one constant truth "THE HERO DIES". No matter what way the story goes the hero will die.

Director Shawn Levy Claims Taylor Swift "Has The Makings Of A Hell Of A Director": "A Generational Voice And Creative Force"Before we go, there’s one last question—maybe it’s the obvious question—and one last cry, too. The fact remains that Ausiello, a person who has made a career out of telling people’s stories, has devoted years of his personal life to another person as well: caring for Kit, then writing about that experience, and now on a press tour talking about it. He’s spent so much time in service of Kit and Kit’s story. What about his own? a b Major, Michael. "& JULIET, TITANIQUE & More Nominated For Queerties Awards". BroadwayWorld.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2023 . Retrieved February 20, 2023. Southern Charm' Alum Chelsea Meissner Confirms The Birth Of Her First Child: "One Month Postpartum" Klecak, Jacqueline (2017-09-06). "Worst of Years, Best of Intentions in Michael Ausiello's Memoir". New Jersey Monthly . Retrieved 2022-12-12. He said goodbye to him in his book, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, about meeting and falling in love with Kit and caring for him at the end of his life, which he wrote while still in the grieving process.

What many of his fans don’t know, however, is that while his professional life was in full swing, Michael had to endure the greatest of personal tragedies: his longtime boyfriend, Kit Cowan, was diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer. Over the course of eleven months, Kit and Michael did their best to combat the deadly disease, but Kit succumbed to his illness in 2015. Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies is a personal, painful, inspiring, heart-warming, and heart-breaking love story -- Ausiello's up-close memoir of the loss of his husband Kit after a short and intense battle with a devastating form of cancer. It’s been five more years since then, and Ausiello has devoted much of that time to producing the film version of Spoiler Alert—which is to say, again telling Kit’s story. I ask him if his relationship to that grief and to Kit’s memory has changed at all.The other thing that leaves me feeling meh about this book, and probably the only thing I can be accused of being biased about, is...he's not the only person that's lost a loved one, and his husband isn't the first person to ever die of cancer. There! I said it! Let the haters hate me now. Here's the thing...I am a pediatric oncology & bone marrow transplant nurse. I see children, teenagers and young adults, on a daily basis, fighting for their lives too. The fact that his husband died in his 40's, after he grew up to be an adult, have an amazing career (from the sounds of it in the book), and meet the love of his life...I have a hard time sympathizing with this, when I see little people who will NEVER make it to adulthood, have a career or meet the love of their lives. I'm not heartless, because I hate that Kit died to this horrible disease. I hate that anyone dies from cancer, period. But I just didn't feel like there was anything really worthy of writing a book about, in regards to the author & his husband's story. Perhaps, it helped him heal, writing all of this and telling it, I don't know...I probably just sound like a jerk now anyways so I'll shut up. lol

I was expecting more of a Cancer journey, the nitty gritty of the Medical aspect of the experience. I don't know what possessed me to request this book. I love Ausiello, his reporting, and his columns, yes, but how I thought I'd come out unscathed from an incredibly sad memoir about a lovely gay man losing his beloved husband to cancer... I don't know. Sure, parts of this memoir are funny and snarky, but much of it is just heartbreaking and gut-wrenching. Good grief. There's no real equivalent of reading about a man openly and honestly telling you about losing a great love of his life. I so admire Michael Ausiello's honesty and emotional openness in writing this book, and although I didn't previously know anything about him except his professional persona, I do feel invested now in wishing him a life of happiness. Kit was clearly an incredibly special person, and I'm happy to have gotten to know him through this book. I do not read memoirs, I read dairies, and letters but not a structured book about a life. To be honest I am not a big reader of nonfiction books. This one made my list after watching the movie it was based on. I loved the movie but as usual, I love the book more. Next Big Thing / The QUEERTIES 2022 / Winners". Queerty. Archived from the original on September 10, 2022 . Retrieved February 20, 2023.Laughter, to be sure, can be a good antidote or a defense mechanism, but it is unconvincing in Spoiler Alert, which is unapologetically sad at every turn. Perhaps the point, as with its title, was to try to soften the blow of how viciously sad this story becomes, but it isn’t always effective, and sometimes distracts from the impact of such scenes. Spoiler Alert aspires to be, in the end, not much more than a deeply personal, perhaps cathartic love poem penned under tragic circumstances. The film is certainly effective as far as that goes, but it is far from perfect, even in that regard. For starters, Jim Parsons looks nearly 15 years too old — not just for his scene partner, but to believably pull off the younger version of Michael that he’s playing at the movie’s outset. It is incredibly frustrating that a film that is so makeup-dependent, not just to convey Parsons’ age, but also Kit’s illness, disappoints on that front, but it’s possible that makeup artist Etzel Ecleston just didn’t have much money to work with, as it seems as though most of the budget went towards the film’s art direction. Indeed, Art Director Annie Simeone has fun decorating the pretty, gay apartments that Michael and Kit amble between (as well as the incredibly amusing, Smurf-stuffed abode that Michael inhabits before moving in with Kit) but the critical below-the-line feature needed to make this film entirely effective — the makeup — appears to have been neglected. Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge in Spoiler Alert/Focus Features There’s no point in withholding how much I cried while reading Spoiler Alert. Nor is there in how much both Ausiello and I teared up during our conversation. I gotta admit that I only watched the movie because it got a good review and I was totally under the impression that it was a comedy. At first, probably the first third of the movie was walking very close to the land of gay-cliché but somehow every moment when it got close to be like that, it didn't. Then, it turned into such a touching drama that I didn't see coming despite the opening scene. The crying scene at the doctor office was one of most heartbreaking scenes I have been in a while because it was so quiet and so real. It was very well-made and well-acted movie that gave a full spectrum of emotions from the beginning to the end. At the end, I was in the verge of crying but I didn't. Instead, I feel deeply moved and I thought it was even better than crying. And it often seems that the writing confuses oversharing with honesty. It's pretty misogynistic to throw the word "c*nt" around so happily. It's ableist and gross to use the phrase "morning tourettes," equating a life shaping disability with an inability to not be an asshole in the morning. Details of a sex life are just over sharing unless there's a larger purpose for sharing them (see: larger discussion of body dysmorphia that the author wants to dig into but doesn't and/or discussions of monogamy vs alternate arrangements that never come up). Just sharing all your dirty laundry is unnecessary unless it's to a larger point. I do not think this book ever rises to the level of introspection needed for that larger point.

Complex, Valerie (January 18, 2023). "GLAAD Announces Nominees for the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 13, 2023 . Retrieved January 20, 2023. Performance Worth Watching: Parsons is one of those sensitive actors who, when he cries, you have no choice but to cry too, goddammit.In addition to starring in Spoiler Alert, Parsons produced the film with his husband, Todd Spiewak. Ausiello, who had interviewed Parsons many times over the years that he starred on The Big Bang Theory, asked the actor to moderate a Q&A in Los Angeles when Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies was released. As Parsons read the book to prepare for the conversation, Spiewak would discover him in the living room sobbing in a puddle of tears. It was Spiewak’s idea, after observing his husband’s visceral reaction, to option the book for a film—though Parsons wasn’t totally on board at first.