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Summary: addictive heartfelt TV
Review: This show dives into issues relevant to gays, straights, bi's around the world: tolerance, identity, truth, friendship. I applaude the actors, directors, writers, and producers for their courage. I hope that they keep on pushing the envelope.I've seen both the American and British versions of QAF. Both are excellent, but the British slangs and accents make the British series harder to follow. Speaking as a straight woman, the American QAF ensemble is much more attractive than the British ensemble. The Brian Kinney/Stuart Jones character becomes more believable when played by the magnetic, gorgeous Gale Harold. Vote with your dollars and buy, rent both US and UK QAF. Show all those scared corporate drones that daring, intelligent TV has an audience!
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Summary: Uh...
Review: Blah. Plain and simple. I watched this show last season as it aired, and even though each week I was highly unimpressed, I kept watching because I was hoping that the show could develop out of the non-stop sex. It's great that America is seeing that gay people share in loving, sexual relationships...but QAF's only consistent theme is sex. Sure there are highly soap operatic asides (the baby, the unrequited love of Brian & Mikey, Justin getting his head bashed in, etc), but those are only appealing if you enjoy cheesy, cliche, typical storylines which are everywhere. Stick with the British version. It has the sex, but it also has much better acting, and is not as glittery. It is very raw and has a much more realistic approach to gay life than does the American version. Even stick with "Will & Grace." It may be run of the mill sitcom, and some of the jokes are childish and gratuitous, but it least it has a [...] soul! And even further: stick with "Sex & the City." More than a few people have made the assumption that Carey & her ladies are simply the straight female counterparts to gay men. The show may be heterosexual--but where else do you get sex, fashion, and great philosophical perspectives on sex this day in age?? Bottom line: This show is no more than a filmed fashion ad--the guys are attractive, the sex is soft-core and overdone, and there is nothing except for a look. I need a bit more in today's continuously downspiralling television programming.
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Summary: Not offensive, just BAD
Review: I've heard people whine about how Showtime's QAF is offensive, demeaning, stereotypical, blah blah blah. Face it, gay people (like straight people) have sex, some gay people (like some straight people) do drugs. Big deal. QAF's problems have to do with bad writing (all the dialogue sounds like leftover SHOWGIRLS lines), bad characters (explain to me why any of QAF's wimpy lineup is friends with a jerk like Brian) and REALLY BAD acting (of all the people that must have auditioned, these are the ones they hired??? Gale Harold couldn't carry a series in a wheelbarrow). There's no one to relate to, since everyone seems to just love hanging out with people who treat them like ca-ca, and all the producers seem interested in is getting the guys in one would-be scandalous sexual situation after another. Yawn. THE SOPRANOS isn't a masterpiece because of four-letter words and graphic violence, people. Get a clue. Someone posted that QAF should just "grow up or go away." I'd be happy if it just went away, and I hope we never hear from its cast or creators again. The fact that millions of gay men adore this low-rent dreck makes me embarrassed to be part of the community. QAF makes WILL & GRACE look like HILL STREET BLUES.
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Summary: ...mom
Review: I have a 29 year old gay son who got me hooked on this show and that is why I'm buying the dvd's. It's only fair sinceI hooked him on SEX AND THE CITY. This show is so good ...I saw another review from some writer in LA complaining about this show. My son and all of his straight and gay friends watch this show. It's so good I hope they run it forever. The writing is so good it's better than some of the so called best shows on regular tv. Thank God Showtime had the guts to put this show on the air. I've told a lot of my friends to watch just for the characterizations alone. I can't wait for the 2nd season to start. I'll be making a lot of long distance calls again to my son as we talk about this show.
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Summary: FABULOUS
Review: I am a part of that interesting group of straight women who absolutely adores this show. Why, you may ask? Besides being completely fascinated by the whole gay cinema genre, I love this show because it is well-written, the characters are great and the stories are interesting and entertaining. It makes absoutely no excuses for the way the characters live, for the nature of the show and for the themes. Also, from a purely filmmaking point of view, the camera angles and photographic choices made in this show are fascinating. The rather graphic parts of this show do take some getting used to, but if you have an open mind and give it a chance, you will become hooked! I think it's fabulous that our television is taking these sort of risks... Check this show out, you will be shocked and first and then surprised by how entertained you can be...
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Summary: BEST SHOW EVER!!!!!!
Review: December 3,2000 was a watershed day in the lives of gay men & women in America.At 10pm that evening the face of television was forever changed by 3 words...."Queer As Folk".Sure,Toronto(where it's filmed)isn't Pittsburgh(where it's set),but that's just a minor minus in a sea full of pluses.Hot guys,awesome music,and characters that will stay with you long after the series has ended,perish the thought.This DVD set is a perfect intro to those just starting with season 2.a MUST HAVE in every DVD collection.
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Summary: Unwatchable Gay Porn
Review: Bottom line (pardon the pun), I am a successful writer in Los Angeles and have many gay friends, but I find this show absolutely unwatchable and offensive. It does nothing except reinforce the view that we heteros already have that the gay community is concerned with nothing but sex and looks. I have been very vocal in my support for gay rights, marriage, health benefits, etc. But as a straight man, I will tell you that gays should be concerned with how this show portrays them and the negative impact it has on non-gay viewers. Why, for example, should heteros pay for AIDS research and have empathy for characters who are running around (...)anything they can get into? In one episode I saw, the main character was de-virginizing a 17-year-old boy, while having a conversation with someone else. There was nothing loving about it. It was just hard-core sex. I felt it was very dehumanizing and objectifying to the boy. "American Beauty" works because the Kevin Spacey character decides NOT to have sex with the young girl. He learns to have respect for her. I read the original version in which he actually DID (...)her before he died. And there was a huge emotional difference in how I reacted to the two versions of the script. This show needs to grow up or go away. If you want gay porn, by all means, go rent it. But gays should do themselves a service and send this show back into the closet!
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Summary: QAF is one of the best show on pay TV. "A Must See!"
Review: This is a terrific show. The writers and the actors did an outstanding job. Now the most awaited DVD is finally here. I have watched this show since day one and till the season one finally and no words can express how a show like this can make a big inpact in people's lives.This show is smart and for showtime to finally have the courage to air a show about homosexual life style is a big stap and I thank showtime for being brave. 5 Stars
and I hope the series will continue to air for many years to come. Great Work and I'm looking forwad to buy the season one DVD collection and I'm sure that Showtime will release all the seasons of QAF on DVD or Video, I will definately collect all of them.
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Summary: Finally....TV is really looking at gay society and life
Review: QAF is a huge milestone not only in TV programming (albeit on cable and not a Big 3 network channel) but a step forward in showing the rest of America what gay life is and isn't. One very important thing to note for our heterosexual audience members, the show DOES NOT reflect 100% what gay life is, anymore than Law and Order (for example only) shows us all the facets of the American judicial system. No one TV show can address all the myriad facets of our gay lives, and this is one issue I hope QAF will address in future seasons. Not (...) And certainly there are more gay people of different races and ethnicities than what is portrayed here. I'm saying this as a white male in his 30s! QAF has knocked down some barriers, but it would also help if the producers and media would focus on other aspects of the show other than the (really tame) sex scenes and nightclub antics. This represents only a small fraction of the totality that is any gay man's or lesbian woman's life. On the flip side, I appreciate all the work the actors, writers and producers have put into writing interesting and compelling storylines that do show some of the everyday situations the characters face, and not just because they gay or lesbian. Many of the show's plots are universal to both hetero and gay lives.
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Summary: Can't miss this one!
Review: Queer As Folk is a must. It got me hooked to it the minute I started watching!
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