Queer as Folk

[suspectclass]

So girlfriend and I developed an attachment to Queer as Folk last week. We rented the first tape intending to mock, and now I have the whole first season waiting for me in my room. It's so bad. The characters are stereotypes, the dialog depends on one liners, emotional outbursts, and people acting directly contrary to the way you *know* they would in real life. For instance: a lesbian couple who gets a birth father that they disagree on. How foolish can you be? Another guy chooses a friend to make the life support decision without asking him. Is that even legal? My favorite moments:

The lesbian couple named Franny and Zoe who have a child named Holden.

One of Justin's classmates is named Bueller.

The gay man who goes straight after promising God he would if he tested negative. He gives up men, even after his friends hire a porn star to come pay him a visit, he stops seeing them, goes from diva to drab, but then one short speech by his friend on God creating him in His image is enough to get him clubbing again.

If clubbing was all there was to gay life, I'd want to be straight, too.

Comments

[raybear.livejournal.com]

yes, yes, i agree on all front. it's a horrible show but i've seen nearly every episode in the first season. the epitome of guilty pleasure.

and, and, AND, I also agree about the lesbians and the birth father. when that came out in the first episode, i basically wrote off ALL conflicts related to this issue on the grounds that they are MORONS. my only hope is that people watching will learn to get their documents in order and learn the lesson of NEVER use a known donor, unless you intend to have group parenting. but more often than that, yesterday's best friend because tomorrow's court plaintiff who's taking your kid for custody.

uh, yeah, so where'd that soapbox come from? my bad.

[chimneychild.livejournal.com]

i've only watched the american version a couple times, but at the gay bar, which makes me think i like it more than i really do. the british one is amazing. steriotypical, yes, but perhaps groundbreaking, and georgeously fimed. i'm in love with those boys.

[izzybelly.livejournal.com]

dude, i love that show, although i don't catch it that often. tv is all about guilty pleasure, and besides, i love to love them. teehee, michael is so cute. he's so short!

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[masscooper.livejournal.com]

Eugh. Michael is a punk ass bitch.

I love emmett. ::sigh::

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[izzybelly.livejournal.com]

rar! he's so nice!