Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

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While initially upset that Kit could not admit this to her, Marilyn is accepting and welcomes Michael. While most of the book focuses on the present-day: learning about Kit's shocking diagnosis, how that affects couple, and ultimately leading up to his death. The movie—and Ausiello and Cowan’s story—is a poignant reminder of how lucky any of us are to have found love in our lives at all, and a what a privilege it is, to use that word again, to be able to care for the person you love when they need you the most, difficult as it may be.

It is obviously a very sad story and what Ausiello went through would push most people to the limit. Performance Worth Watching: Parsons is one of those sensitive actors who, when he cries, you have no choice but to cry too, goddammit. Being a pop-culture and TV junkie, I have been aware and a fan of Ausiello throughout much of his career so I thought this would have been a relative slam-dunk and even more so when you throw in also being gay and relatively around the same age. As an occasionally obsessed TV fan, I've been familiar with Michael Ausiello's writing career for years.The tears come and go—from both ends of the table—as he continues, stopping and starting to collect himself.

I mean the last words he said to me were, ‘Thank you,’” he says, the waterworks coming on cue, as they should. 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. In 2013, Michael and Kit develop complications in their relationship as their sex life deteriorates. He got to, in detail, spend a year recollecting, processing, and maybe rethinking the start of his relationship all the way through to his husband’s last breath.

They maintain an unwaveringly earnest tone that allows Parsons and Aldridge to explore the complexities of long-term relationships without falling into mawkishness. She said that she felt like things that don’t necessarily succeed in their original genre are the best things to take and try again, if the story itself is good, in another genre. I didn’t realize what a fucked-up day that was until I really went back into it and unpacked it all,” Ausiello says.

Which sounds horrible, but Michael made him so alive in this book, I feel like I knew him just a tiny bit and that my life is better because I knew him just a tiny bit. In all my years of reading books, from a young child to the present, no book has ever prompted so many fits of crying as this memoir (and side note to the haters with the audacity to flippantly toss one and two star reviews…I’m so glad I will never have the opportunity to cross paths with your crass, harsh, and indifferent attitudes).

Written by popular TV news blogger Michael Ausiello, ‘Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies’ is the tragic story of the final year of his husband Kit Cowan’s life. There’s an awkward, fleeting stare-down, for example, when the waitress asks if we’d like a cocktail. For example, I read Anna Kendrick and Lauren Graham's memoirs close to each other and those seemed in the same lane-- smart, funny, actresses and their experiences.