It has been 4 years since Queer as Folk filmed its fifth and final season and due to Australia always being slightly behind when it comes to American shows i have only just managed to finish watching the whole show.
The one thing that strikes me the most about QAF is how, no matter what year you watch it, or where you are watching it it remains poignantly contemporary. The sad part of that is, it means that a lot of the themes in this show (gay rights to marriage, rights to children, acceptance etc) are still resonating in the political and cultural landscapes of many countries.
Yet another thing and probably the most important thing about this show, is that its not just about "queers" for "queers". Its a show about friendship, change, acceptance, growing old and growing painfully wise and most of all it is about the journey we all take with the self.
You don't have to be "queer" to love this show but you do have to be open. Open to a great show that is superbly written and acted, a show that confronts its audience head on with issues many of us never consider in our secular lives and forces us to wake up to the fact that the same sh** in life is felt by everyone from all walks and the same joys are fought for and sometimes won.
If you're considering getting this one off the shelves and hesitating, don't. You wont regret it.
I'm starting to think it was timely i couldn't watch this show when it originally aired because in my early twenties i'm not so sure i would have embraced it or learnt much from it. I'm starting to believe i finished watching it in my late twenties for a reason. Because so much of life is embedded in these characters. And not a life that so many shows fail to reflect. The life of average people doing the best they can with what they have. In a landscape of so many movies and TV shows that are fake and farcical, Queer as Folk shines a light back on what matters.
What more could you want from art?
The one thing that strikes me the most about QAF is how, no matter what year you watch it, or where you are watching it it remains poignantly contemporary. The sad part of that is, it means that a lot of the themes in this show (gay rights to marriage, rights to children, acceptance etc) are still resonating in the political and cultural landscapes of many countries.
Yet another thing and probably the most important thing about this show, is that its not just about "queers" for "queers". Its a show about friendship, change, acceptance, growing old and growing painfully wise and most of all it is about the journey we all take with the self.
You don't have to be "queer" to love this show but you do have to be open. Open to a great show that is superbly written and acted, a show that confronts its audience head on with issues many of us never consider in our secular lives and forces us to wake up to the fact that the same sh** in life is felt by everyone from all walks and the same joys are fought for and sometimes won.
If you're considering getting this one off the shelves and hesitating, don't. You wont regret it.
I'm starting to think it was timely i couldn't watch this show when it originally aired because in my early twenties i'm not so sure i would have embraced it or learnt much from it. I'm starting to believe i finished watching it in my late twenties for a reason. Because so much of life is embedded in these characters. And not a life that so many shows fail to reflect. The life of average people doing the best they can with what they have. In a landscape of so many movies and TV shows that are fake and farcical, Queer as Folk shines a light back on what matters.
What more could you want from art?