Review of Queer as Folk

While Six Feet Under and Oz may focus less exclusively on gay characters, the depictions of life as it occurs to anyone, gay or straight in QAF are something that I can less often identify with. I actually watched the movie Hannah and Her Sisters right before seeing the first two episodes of season 3, and even tho I'm gay I felt a deeper emotional connection to the movie, where eccentric people have dialogue that is much more exemplary of their quirks and characteristics. Nowhere in these other great series would you find such a corny statement like the violinist saying to Justin "I thought I'd wake you up with a serenade." It also seems like the character of Brian is so predictably evil, used as both a plot device and a didactic warning against excess (who, BTW as I'm sure as most will agree, simply doesn't have the "look" to warrant all the attention his character gets).

In better movies/TV shows, art would be depicted for what it does to people, not to move the plot along with an imagined personality trait of pretentious artists. The dialogue in the second episode at the Justin's college about the world losing "his gift" was equally grating...

I appreciate what the writers of this show are attempting and I have no problem with the gratuitous nudity, as long as it doesn't take itself so seriously. The plot can be interesting occasionally and I appreciate Sharon Gless's and Hal Sparks's acting, and I'm sure they're all fun people to be around in real life.