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Summary: What?
Review: Why is this show still on TV? This show was never good. It's nothing but a gay themed Ally McBeal / Boston Public. How could anyone actually think that this is some kind of icon for gay "culture". I could really rant about this so-called "fascinating drama" for hours but I'll cut it short. Queer As Folk is just another cliché piece of overrated soft-core Show Time porn. There is absolutely no creativity what so ever. I mean, wow, gay men who club, have lots of sex, and soap opera relationships, how did they ever think that up? It just proves that if you put enough sex in a TV show, a lot of people will watch it and think that it's artwork.
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Summary: QAF keeps getting better... and Im hooked
Review: Season 3 of Queer As Folk continued the storyline of a group of gay and lesbian friends living in Pittsburgh. QAF is the most addicting show, even to a 25 yr old straight girl. The story lines, and the characters are beautiful and keep me turning the tv on every Sunday night, and looking for it again late Tuesday nights. I have Season 1 & 2 DVD's and love watching all of the extra footages that they have. I look forward to seeing what kinds of bloopers they will show us on Season 3.
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Summary: QAF fan since the beginning
Review: i remember the first time i ever saw an episode of QAF. I was hooked.. have since saved up my pennies over the year for each dvd release. and have never regretted it... the episodes are the lives of emmette honeycut (pornstar turned caterer), ted schmit (old reliable ted goes through some changes in life in this season, not to be missed), brian kinney (self centered yet secretly giving horn dog),hunter (a teenage male prostitute who michael and ted are trying to save from the streets), michael novotny("semi cute boy next door type, 29, 9 and a half cut, alright maybe im exagerating but whos told the truth since they invented cyber sex" michael-ep.1 se. 1" ),ben (great guy, build like a brick... ok have to cencor out that one, hes pos which was rough on things at first but after season two we all knew that ben was gonna be a regular, everyone loved him too much), debbie (hard and nails, heart of mush, this strait ladys so gay, shell make ya blush), melanie and lindsey (melanie is an ex biker dyke turned lawyer and theres lindsey, her stay at home mom wife.. so cute.. you gotta love em), justin taylor(justins a brat but you wanna just pick him up and swing him around in the air, and then theres times where you wanna slap him, and theres times you want to pat the boy on the back. his character grew up on the show from 17-19, hes headin on 20.. hes brians man. and debbies "sunshine", ethan gold (eek, im not even getting into him.. i dont like ethan..), uncle vic (michaels pos uncle, ive heard rumors of whats gonna happen in 4 and i hope their rumors, someone told me that vics gonna die in the next season, i love vic, if the writers read this stuff dont kill off my guy), jennifer (justins mom aside from his other non biological mama debbie, i dont think theres anything jennifer wouldnt do for her boy. one second shes confused and scared, the next shes trying to break through his shell and by the second season you see them walking down liberty avenue marching together for p flag "im proud of you justin" "im proud of you too mom" you gotta love jennifer), and gus, melanie and lindseys kid who is also brians biological son....
theres lots of sex, lots of laughs, lots of drama (this is a soap just a high quality one, these actors are all amazing, unlike alot of soap stars, their real), lots of good stuff... wether your gay, bi, tg/tv/ts, or just an openminded heterosexual, this show is for you, and yes there are one of two strait stories in this show just they dont tackel onto strait sex, except if you count emmettes sex with a gay chick for God, or the rather cute scene with daphne losing her virnity in season one (daphnes justins best friend, shes this sparky little thing who you cant help but love, even when brians mad he cant help but kiss her on the cheek :) and despite her not seeming to understand people sometimes she obviosly understands the boys on this show more than they understand themselves though i must say when she says to say that she is just like her family unlike justin with him being gay "i mean im black... my moms black... my dads black.. were just all.....black" in which she follows by the quirky and cute daphne smile which is only matched by justin "sunshine" )
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Summary: smart choices...
Review: At first I was appalled that the season was only 14 episodes...However, that ebing said, i think it was incredible and agreat decision. It took away some of the fluff from season two... if they had tried for 20 episodes, there would have beena lot of filler, which is what happened to season two. It could have used a little more stuff in there true... some more of the stuff that season one made us expect - but this season i think was good. it had some of the best developed characters we have seen yet, and it didnt fill up hour long chunks of time killers so that the story lines would stretch over 8 more episodes. they probably could have had 2 more episodes and still dont a great job, and i am not 100% sure i like everything that happened in the season... i cant stand hunter at all, the actor OR the character... but thats OK.... overall I think the 3 season was testament that QAF is not a hit and run hit, and will be around for a little while longer, at the least...
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Summary: Just watch reruns of Season 1
Review: Upon watching my first episode of Queer As Folk Season 1, I was immediately hooked. By the time I saw the first episode, Season 2 was already underway. I immediately bought the Season 1 DVDs and proceeded to watch all five DVDs in the space of 2 days. It was just that addictive. I was impressed by the show's bold and astonishingly frank portrayal of a gay group of friends. The relationship between Brian and Michael was really engaging. I mean, here are "best friends" who loved each other as friends, but had an underlying attraction for each other. I couldn't turn away. I eagerly awaited more episodes. I was glued to the TV on Sunday nights. My friends and family called me "Queer as Folk" addicted. I was. Season 2, was not as good. Like most of the other reviewers, I did not care for Michael and Ben as a couple. Michael and David were so much more realistic. Plus, the season was shorter. It was in this season that I started noticing how much smaller Babylon was becoming. It was not the hip & hopping club it used to be. Heck, in this Season, Queer as Folk wasn't what it used to be. However, it was still worth staying up late on Sundays to catch. Which is more than I can say for Season 3. Season 3, was by far the worst I have ever seen. It was just plain awful. I found myself taping the shows to watch later, which I've always done, but retaping over the episodes, which I never did. They were just that bad. The storylines were boring and just plain uninteresting. However, the absolute worst was what they did to Brian and Michael. Season 3, they barely had a friendship, much less any type relationship. Am I the only one who sees that these two guys belong together????????? Take my advice, get Season 1 and forget about Seasons 2 & 3.
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Summary: QAF gets serious!
Review: I was pleased to see QAF take a more serious turn in season three. Season one was excellent in establishing the characters and taking the viewers on a fun ride. Season one had a mix of both funny scenes and serious scenes. Season two started off good but soon became kooky and the storylines didn't hold any water. In season three, Peter Paige and Scott Lowell shined. Aswell, Gale Harold continued to deliver. The storylines were interesting and it was nice to see some serious issues brought up and others wrapped up. I was impressed with the the third season.
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Summary: Not as good as the first two seasons, but still good.
Review: This season may turn out to be the weakest in QAF history, but it's still a good season. I just watched the first episode of the forth season and it appears to be moving back up towards the 5 star drama it was in the beginning. They've opened a few new doors and the show is going in interesting directions. I never really cared for the Hunter character at first. I guess he's growing on me. If you can't get enough of ..Brian, Justin, Michael, Emmett, Ted, Melanie, Lindsay, Ben, & Debbie check'em out in season 3, as well as the first 2.
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Summary: What Happened??????
Review: Everything that made QAF unique and special during the first 2 seasons was ruined in Season 3. For me QAF gave us a no holds barred look at (Gen-X) life, was true to life and was politically in-correct. But that all changed this season. It was all over the place, it lacked pacing, a coherent plot, the stories were forced, contrived and it was politically correct. First of all it was boring, For some of the episodes I found myself forward fasting through scenes of characters I didn't care for. I never did this in Season 1& 2 (with the exception of the graphic sex scenes). I wasn't certain how the Stockwell story was going to play out at first. I found it really neat that Brian was bonding with this politician who was on the other end of the political spectrum on him. I wasn't quite certain whether Brian was falling for Stockwell or maybe just saw in him the father he never had. Whatever it was I just thought that it was neat that for once Brian was bonding with a guy on his level without the usual wall of arrogance he hides behind. Then the writers got what I call "politically correct" by having Brian and the rest of the gang turn on Stockwell. Yes the guy was a conservative. But the term "fascist" was a bit extreme and un called for. The characters in the story wanted tolerance however they had absolutely none for anyone who did not think the way that they did. I found the whole thing rather hypocritical. It also added to the inconsistency of the whole plot. First of all Brian is the one who approached Stockwell to work for him, despite knowing that Stockwell was a conservative politician. He even went back to Stockwell to try to help his campaign after, Stockwell fired him. Something I never thought that a proud and arrogant man like Brian would do. THEN he tries to bring down tries to bring Stockwell down. Going so far as to torpedo his career (which he went to great lengths to salvage last season) and why does Brian do all this? Because he can't have sex in a public place. How lame is that? It looked as if the creators thought that it was a pretty lame excuse as well. Which is why they seemed to turn to bringing down Stockwell on the basis of his covering up a murder. Which again adds to the inconsistency from last season since I distinctly remember Brian's reaction last year at seeing "Dumpster Boy's" dead body. He smirks and flippantly says "Let's go eat" (or something to that effect). He obviously didn't care about the dead boy before, he does now? I also hated the abrupt ending of the relationship between Justin and Ethan. It was as if the creators simply wanted Ethan out of the picture, so they had him cheat on Justin. Which I found strange considering the amount of love and affection he showed Justin in the first place. I guess I am probably the only person who doesn't like Brian and Justin together. As much as I respect Randy Harrisson as an actor. He is not exactly the most virile man around. I would have really preferred for Brian to be with a guy more on his level (like David from season 1). Randy and Fabio (Ethan) had way much more chemistry. Surprisingly what saved me this season were my least favorite characters. Ben and Ted.
I never liked Robert Gant. I found his performances wooden and unispiring. He looks as if he should be acting on a day time soap. However I really enjoyed him reaching out to Hunter and trying to help him. It was done in a very realistic and non-sappy way. The same for Ted's issue with drugs. This was probably the best anti-drug storyline I've ever seen. Since it actually showed us why Ted turned to them-to hide from the loathing he feels for himself. Ted is not my favorite character on this show, but if I had to say who had the best and most realistic storyline this season it had to be him. And it was too bad that Lindsey and Melanie weren't used much more. If the creators can't think of anything more original to come up with then perhaps it is time to just cancel the show after season 4. I don't know if QAF is back for a 4th season but I truly hope they clear up the mess from this year.
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Summary: A Recovery From Season 2
Review: Let's all be happy season 3 three is coming to dvd! Well after the dissapointment of season 2 (but still good). Season 3 is like a breath of fresh air. It may be a brief season but, in a good way each episode showed how great a show this series was and how great of a cast they really had on there hands. Season 3 begins about a week where it left off Brian and Justin are seperated Ben & Micheal are still together and, Ted & Emmett have sex for the first time in this ep. Later on Brian punches Micheal (Ben almost rips his head off ) but, I will let u watch the ep to find out what about. Later in the season Mel gets pregnant, Micheal & Ben allow a 16-year-old boy into there house who used to sell his body for cash and has HIV. Ted losses his job and basically everything he has resulting in him having a melt down and becoming a big drugee. Ted & Emmett end up breaking up (I know I almost cried).Debbie and her police man boyfriend break up. Vic get's a new HIV positive boyfriend. Blake returns at the end of the season. This season is different because, the gang must deal the possible losing of there rights and Brian working with the enemy. Brian and Justin get back together. Ben struggles with one of his friends dieing and that he can never have kids and begins steroid usage.But, it takes for Micheal to do something that will leave you in awe to get him to stop. Oh yeah and Ben is looking hotter than ever this season. He is the hottest of the cast to me! In the season finale Mel gets through her superstition. Ted & Emmett are offially off (but who knows) . Ted gets help finally and that's is where the return of Blake happens. Hunter is going to be tooken away unless Brian & Micheal can think of something quick. So Micheal does they take off. Debbie & the gang celebrate the loss of Stockwell. Which is mainly because, of Brian he payed for the commercial and got all of his stuff tooken away. Which I thought was sweet. And we all know that Justin will be giving Brian alot sex to make up for it. They both realize they both have each other and they both dance into the night. Things to expect from upcoming season for (March 7th, 2003) : Melanie's baby being born. The revealing of where Micheal and Hunter went. And what Hunters faite is ( I hope he does not leave I like Hunter) . What Justin & Brian are up too. And what everyone has been wondering about what is going to happen to Ted & Emmett and what will the return of Blake do to there relationship. That is still to come but, have not seen Season 3 you are really missing out on something really big. So buy the dvd in Febuary. Until Season 4 starts! March 7th, 2003!
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Summary: Wildly Uneven,But Still Fun!
Review: The phenomenon is back!"Queer as Folk" returns with 14 episodes that won't please everyone,but is still a great ride anyway.Season 3 standout performances include Scott Lowell & Peter Paige,who characters,Ted & Emmett,finally revealed their love for each other at the end of season 2.A love that is threatened when terrible things begin to happen to Ted,leading to one of the series most shocking moments ever,and the return of an old love.More kudos to Robert Gant and Hal Sparks whose characters,Ben & Michael,decide to live together with unexpected results.with all its faults,season 3 still manages to to be better than expected,a sure step up from season 2,but two steps back from season 1.Look for the "official" QAF music video "Some Lovin'" By Kristine W. featuring the cast of the show.It's brilliant!
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