Stylish but barely mediocre overall

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

A different way of telling a story

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

I only recently discovered this TV show and I got hooked on the characters. To me, they felt like real people, real lives. I became emotionally invested in their lives, in their world. The show explores many challenges that gay communities have to face while still upholding fun humour where it fits, this is what made it seem so real to me. This is why I give it 10 stars and my grief for its finish. I went through a variety of emotions throughout the seasons, evoking laughter and tears. As a dabbler in writing and a student of photography/film I know it is difficult to engage the reader/audience but, on this level, Queer as Folk never failed. I was, however, disappointed in the grand finale. My favourite characters throughout were Justin and Brian and I was sad to see they didn't end up together. I guess you can call me a sucker for romance.

It was a different world when this show started around 2000. Hate and discrimination against the LGBT community was in full force. There was no same sex marriage, at least in the US. Now it's the law throughout the entire US.I have to call QAF "Brave" and "Breakthrough" because it was the first TV show to feature a cast of LGBT people as the main characters. Hopefully this helped educate people and played a role in the advancements of civil rights for the LGBT community.I'd love to watch all the original shows unedited! I'd love it even more if a new QAF launched, set in the world of 2015 and beyond.

I've watched and re-watched this amazing show which, not only was light years ahead of it's time, but totally relevant today. It set the bar so very high for Showtime and still is their most watched series. The actors, various directors, writers and outstanding photographers made this compelling viewing. Watching it now, 10 years later, still is educational, emotional and heart wrenching, promoting discussions among it myriad fans. We are in the process of contacting Netflix in hopes that they will be interested in a reunion show. Of course, if they, or any other cable system would dare, a new and updated series. We can only hope! Thanks, Linda

Michael: "This is where it all began..."Brian: "...and ended." Have to admit I was sad when I reached the last episode in this great series. I've never been a fan of soap operas, although these days the distinction between "soap opera" and the more standard "TV drama series" is minimal. But this definitely had a hold on me. I was conflicted by wanting to do a marathon viewing of episodes on the one hand and wanting to pace them out to put off reaching the final episode too soon. During the first three seasons there were quite a few cliff hangers and that really drew you into the next episode to see how the characters would manage to extricate themselves from the dilemmas they faced at the end of the current show. And even though you could easily see almost every disaster looming on the horizon, and you felt pretty certain it would be resolved, it was still compelling to see that Brian or Justin or whoever managed to "survive" whatever mess (generally of their own making)they found themselves in. Having watched the short-lived British version of QAF, I was initially put off by the actors who played Brian and Justin when compared to the British Stuart and Nathan, but Gale Harold/Brian Kinney quickly won me over and I suppose much of the suspense for me throughout the series was concerning whether Brian and Justin would ever settle together. All the characters, just like real people often do, alternatively caused annoyance or redeemed themselves in my estimation. For the most part their behavior was fairly consistent, but again like real people they seemed sometimes to act out of character. At times their behavior seemed excessively cloddish and insensitive, helping to provoke the next inter-relational crisis, but that is the stuff of life and soap operas. There were times, however, when their oafishness seemed a bit difficult to accept. Justin, for example, seemed a pretty intelligent, insightful person, but sometimes came across as being incredibly gullible, naïve or plain dull-witted. I guess Brian remained the most true-to-character throughout.I would sometimes fast forward through the more intimate lesbian scenes, just as I assume some viewers may have replayed those and skipped some of the male soft porn, but the lesbian inclusion added greater breadth to the story and to the sense of community. My main complaint in this area was that they seemed to become too much of the story line in the fourth season and most of that was the central lesbian couple having hissy fits with one another almost continuously. Just about everyone in the show managed to have fallings out with others, but usually the issues were resolved fairly quickly. Not so with these two.Throughout the series, Michael's mother, Sharon Glass/Debbie Novotny was a supporting character, as were Justin's mother, Sherry Miller/Jennifer Taylor and some others of the straight persuasion. But by the fourth season Sharon really became an intrusive, often obnoxious, presence in virtually every story development. Not sure if her increased role was in response to some expressed viewer interest after the first three years, but for awhile it seemed that the production had evolved into the Debbie Knows Best Show with Sharon dispensing her hetero wisdom to the gay community whether or not it was solicited. My favorite line came in the fifth season when Michael's partner Ben tells her, "This isn't about you. Now sit down." If only the show's producers had thought similarly sooner, there might have been a sixth season.Anyway, I hope this was "where it all began" in terms of meaningful gay drama, as opposed to gays being used to provide comic relief in supporting roles or dying of AIDS or worse.