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Queer as Folk - The Complete First Season (Showtime) | Year: 2001 Classification: Television Actors/Actresses: - Queer As Folk - Hal Sparks QAF Complete First Season Is Finally Here! The Wait Is Over This is actually the best series ever put on the air. Showtime is trully live up to their title and now the most anticipated DVD release ever is finally here. Before the Second Season start the first season will be release to DVD and Video. This is the best collections of one of the great shows on cable TV. Buy QAF on DVD and start your collections and collect all Seasons of QAF on DVD. It's increadible!!!!10 stars!! Uh... Blah. Plain and simple. I watched this show last season as it aired, and even though each week I was highly unimpressed, I kept watching because I was hoping that the show could develop out of the non-stop sex. It's great that America is seeing that gay people share in loving, sexual relationships...but QAF's only consistent theme is sex. Sure there are highly soap operatic asides (the baby, the unrequited love of Brian & Mikey, Justin getting his head bashed in, etc), but those are only appealing if you enjoy cheesy, cliche, typical storylines which are everywhere. Stick with the British version. It has the sex, but it also has much better acting, and is not as glittery. It is very raw and has a much more realistic approach to gay life than does the American version. Even stick with "Will & Grace." It may be run of the mill sitcom, and some of the jokes are childish and gratuitous, but it least it has a [...] soul! And even further: stick with "Sex & the City." More than a few people have made the assumption that Carey & her ladies are simply the straight female counterparts to gay men. The show may be heterosexual--but where else do you get sex, fashion, and great philosophical perspectives on sex this day in age?? Bottom line: This show is no more than a filmed fashion ad--the guys are attractive, the sex is soft-core and overdone, and there is nothing except for a look. I need a bit more in today's continuously downspiralling television programming. Realistic to the Third Power When it comes to their slogan, cable television's Showtime network definitely has "no limits." "Queer as Folk" (or "QAF" for short) was introduced into the network's lineup in January 2001. Following their first community-oriented series, "Soul Food" (aimed for African-Americans) and "Resurrection Boulevard" (Latinos), QAF was the first gay serial to debut on American television. Based on the popular, yet controversial British series of the same name, QAF is a pioneering achievement for network programming. Before the rise of the gay rights movement in the 1990s, a gay-themed series would been unheard of in the United States. Unlike their European and Australian/New Zealander counterparts, American audiences tended to remain very closed to depictions of gay subculture for decades. However, with the emergence of gay culture and its' promotion in the media (e.g., Madonna, Margaret Cho, etc.) QAF debuted at a time that tolerance was becoming part of mainstream culture. The show, which takes place in Pittsburgh (but actually filmed in Toronto, Canada) QAF revolves around four gay friends. Michael (Hal Sparks) is a manager at a local department store; Brian (played excellently by newcomer Gale Harold) is a heartless, nymphomaniac, yet very misunderstood advertisement executive; Ted (played by the adorable Scott Lowell) is a businessman who is the hopeless romantic; and finally Emmett (Peter Paige) a flamboyant retail worker with some of the funniest lines ever heard. After a series of events at the local gay club, Babylon, Justin (Randy Harrison) a 17 year old student who is starting to debut in Pittsburgh's gay scene, becomes the fifth member of the quartet, pouring his affection and devotion to an unwanting, selfish Brian. Ted, who secretly is in love with Michael faces a near death experience after an accidental overdose. Emmett provides both hysterical and inspirational output in balancing the events in his friend's lives, and Michael deals with homophobia at work and meeting a new love. Rounding out the cast are a handful of women who provide their support to their male counterparts. Sharon Gless, or television's "Cagney and Lacey" plays Debbie Novotny, Michael's mother with humor and grace. The show's lesbian couple (Melanie Clunie and Thea Gill) face trials and tribulations in raising a newborn son and the distance caused by Brian's (the baby's biological father) interference in raising their son. Others such as Makyla Smith (Daphne) and Jack Wetherall (Uncle Vic) add plenty of charm to a storyline that many might find hard to accept, especially when it deals with the show's soft-core depictions of gay sex. Regardless of your tolerance level, QAF is as enjoyable and enthralling as many of today's cable series. Similar to a gay version of "Sex and the City," QAF has plenty of quality material not to only open eyes, but to stir mouths. For conservatives out there, I recommend them watching QAF as folk to have a comprehe Buy Queer As Folk The Complete First Season at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Queer As Folk The Complete First Season Search with the Priority Search Engine on Queer As Folk The Complete First Season This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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