Wonderful character development!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I had vaguely heard of this show before but had never found out what it was about. Now that I've seen it, I can say it is an excellent show. The episodes go by very quickly as these likable characters work their way through their lives with humor. I have seen the show compared to Sex and the City. I understand those comparisons in terms of the two shows being about relationships, both romantic and friends. The characters deal with their romantic relationships while always maintaining the firm base of their friendships. The episodes include an incredible variety of situations, from workplace to marriage to parenting to masculinity, and give a broad perspective on both black and gay cultures. When I think of the show, though, those things seem secondary to me to the warm humor that arises from the interactions of the friends.

While it is pleasing to see another African-American series, what is very unpleasing is that this is another series that is focused on humor & silly comedy. Is this all that the public see in African-American performances: jokes, clowns? And for this to be focused on the African-American gay community with such stereotypes is beyond being very unpleasing. True, some of the character roles are as they are, but this is not the entire community. QAF had variety, except no African-American roles: maybe QAF wasn't interested in Amos & Andy. It is about time this sector of gay society has a more complete representation; it would be appealing if more realism is included.

This show sucks. It gives the impression that all gay men of color are effeminate, oversexed queens. QUEER AS FOLK portrayed some of the characters as masculine, normal men who have the same issues as straight. Anyway, there are gay men of color who are masculine. Unless they told you they are gay, you would not know it. As for this dreck, like the daytime soap PASSIONS, it should be cancelled. I could relate more to the men appearing in gay porn than the over the top characters on this show. I do not care about these characters. Noah, the effeminate queen. Dicky, the nymphomaniac. Alex, the gossipy drama queen. Change, the sexually repressed twit. I say that YOUNG AND RESTLESS' Phyllis should run them over with her car.

It really bugs me that with all the hype surrounding BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and the performances of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, very little love is being shown the landmark series that is NOAH'S ARC. Not to take anything away from the performances of the cast, Ang Lee's note-perfect direction or the milestone that this movie represents, but hey, NOAH "ain't nuthin' to sneeze at", either! So, "what's the 'T', gurl?" as one of the livelier characters says as his trademark catchphrase. The "T" is a funny, silly, sometimes slap-sticky and very soapy, yet remarkable series for presenting something that mainstream TV (and the media in general) has yet to realize: black gay men not only do exist, (=GASP!=), but the foibles, failings, flings and frenetic friendships that they have are universal - not just to other gay men, but to everyone in general! Presenting the lives of BGM's in a positive light NEVER seen before on television, NOAH bids us watch as the story of four friends unfolds. Noah (Darryl Stephens), is a cute screenwriter living and working in Santa Monica, CA., crushing heavily on the straight-but-curious hunk Wade (Jensen Atwood), who is also a writer. This raises the eyebrows and the concern of his three closest friends: Chance (Doug Spearman), a buttoned-down English lit professor who is just entering into a monogamous relationship (or so he thinks); Alex (Rodney Chester), the sassy, brassy, divalicious group "mother hen" who works as an AIDS counselor at a local clinic and has been in a LTR with his impossibly gorgeous bodybuilder hubby, Trey (Gregory Keith) for seven years, and finally, hard-bodied and hard-partying Ricky, (Christian Vincent), who considers the concept of monogamy about as necessary in his life as a bad case of leprosy, and sleeps with different men about as fast as Anna Nicole Smith plows through a bag of Lay's potato chips. (Think a black counterpart of Brian on QAF, but with a better body and a bigger...LIBIDO, and you're there!) Okay, so the 411 on Season One: it has a tendency to lean towards melodramatic exaggeration, but no more or less than any prime-time soap does. The remarkable thing, besides having an all-black cast playing gay black characters as (mostly) positive role models, is that even after all these episodes, I still LIKE them all immensely, for all their faults...even Ricky, who at the end of Season One is nursing a broken heart for maybe the first time in his life, (but you'll have to watch the reruns for the "how" and "why".) And just getting back to the BROKEBACK accolades for a moment...where's the back-slapping and congrats for THIS cast? True, most of these actors have limited credits, though are definitely not limited in the talent department, and most of them are STRAIGHT! So why aren't they being lauded for their "bravery," for keeping it real in every scene they play, ESPECIALLY the love scenes? It could be said that because NOAH is the first major project for many of them, that they have nothing to lose in giving it their all for these characters. So, what was the excuse for the actors on QAF? For me, the thrill was gone when I reached the end of Season Two for that show. Not only could I not get enough of spending time with Noah and his friends, but I can't WAIT to see what will happen to them next! Being a GBM myself, I have to admit to some bias, but I still think that no one has achieved what writer/director/creator/producer Patrik-Ian Polk has here, and that's even with a non-black cast! In other words, if you've been waiting for the "black" QUEER AS FOLK, it's here, it's most definitely queer, but you won't mind "getting used to it." Because in a lot of aspects where QAF failed, NOAH succeeds with flying colors. Now I hope that the cast, crew and creator can take the surplus of goodwill and the rep they've built, and run with it right into Season Two!