Even though I am a strait guy one of my favourite shows is Queer as Folk

I even love to imitate the choreography of those muscular dancers in the shows beginning credit which I love to imitate in front of the mirror for a laugh and I cannot stop thinking about that amazing song at the end of this episode, in the second season, in which there is tension between Brian and his boy friend that has the chorus in with the words “Lover Boy” being repeatedly said. It’s so nice and burlesque, and I guess it is from Boy George, but I would be thankful to know from who it is, because it is truly amazing.
So regarding the confessions that I just made, PLEASE DISCUSS.

 

Perhaps not so straight after all


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I just like the way the people in the show try to to prove that not all people like they are, are such nellys by trying to act so cool.

Plus I cannot find the damn song because so many songs have that same title. Oh, well. Life is full of dissappointments.

 

the song is is queen

which is fairly ironic.

 

Wow, it is. It's called Good Old Fasioned Lover Boy. It's amazing. Gee thanks.

 

I`ve just watched the pilot on this thread's suggestion. Beats Breaking Bad, but not Arrested Development. Anyway, thanks for coming out to us with your taste in series.

 

Awesome. What is Arrested Development and Breaking Bad about? I will look out for them. Both of them got far better ratings on IMDB than Queer as Folk.

 

Arrested Development is about...well lets just say there's a dysfunctional family involved. And hilarity.

Very few shows are in the league of AD. It almost seems crazy to me to even compare them to something like QaF. Apples and Kiwi fruit.

 

I have to have AD.

 

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Party Down, Parks and Recreation, The Office.

 

I may have seen some of the Office, but what is that even about?

 

I baught the fourth season of QAF and watched five episodes of it at a time just yesterday. I could hardly get my eyes back into my head. That is how amazing it was. What do you people think of similar shows to QaF, such as "the L word"?

 

office (UK) is a mockumentary set in a paper company, its pretty different from standard sitcoms, has this sort of bleak "comedy of the mundane" approach, but it IS very, very funny and brilliantly realised.

The american one's also okay, but much more recognizable amongst american sitcoms- its brighter and happier and nicer, doesn't have nearly as much edge to it, not to say it isn't good, but its different.

queer as folk's a remake of british TV show too. i'm guessing your watching the american series since the british one only had ten episodes (we tend to murder our darlings young, keeps them fresh, 3 series is sort of the unwritten maximum.)

But to answer your question, i think they're banging. it must be totally shit to grow up gay and be constantly surrounded by a popular culture which either ignores you or presents you as ridiculous stereotype, must be alienating as all hell. good for shows like this, we need more of 'em.

 

Is the British QaF better than the American or is the American one better. Ten episodes sounds short. Is that common in the UK? Whan you say the British shows murder their characters young do you say that the British QAF is bleaker?

 

i wouldn't be able to compare them, only having seen the British one, but as a general rule, i tend to find that British TV things (sometimes) have a weirdness, a darkness to them that i find really appealing, then when they travel over the water they get remade and change, some of the wierdness and rough edges get ironed out of them. For me that makes them less interesting, like they become sort of homogenized and same-ey. But then, i am british so maybe i'm just being nit-pickey. many people think that american remakes are superior. i wouldnt say that in every case either one is "better" they're just different.

YUP! in UK telly theres a tradition (particularly in comedy) that a classic series should never run for longer than three series. so the office, fawlty towers, father ted (not blackadder cos that changes every series) etc, etc. our office had two series, the american one's on series 7(?) at the moment. The idea is to always leave people wanting more, to go out on a high and not just keep going till you run out of steam.

"murdering your darlings" is just an expression from writing, it means if there's anything in your work which you are particularly proud of, you should get rid of it. It also can mean thatif one of your creations becomes popular and makes you famous, you should destroy it (like sir arthur conan doyle killing off sherlock holmes.)

i DO know that the british one was fairly groundbreaking at the time for british telly- full frontal nudity etc. and the the US one is fairly tame in that regard.

i've also been TOLD that the american one hits you over the head with wider political themes of equality/gay rights etc, where the UK one was more of a personal story specific to the characters and doesn't do a lot of big picture stuff at all. but, like i say, i've not seen the US one and can't judge.

 

I have to watch the original QaF even if it is on You Tube or something. I saw the cover of that British QaF with those innocent looking teenagers in these 80s fashion and hair style, posing on a childishly faded and colourful cover with the dangerous-looking red R-18 sign stamped onto it. Simply by looking at the cover I know that the British QaF must be really good and maybe even thought provoking. The cover somply has something about it that shows that it is amazing.

 

I watch those home deco gay guys from canada.. Steven and Chris..
http://www.cbc.ca/stevenandchris/homedecor.html
I might be gay.. ya never know..

 

There are tons of straight guys in the broadway scene. You just have a love for it.

 

I watched bits of the pilot for the Uk version of Queer as Folk and I must agree with the many people who commented on it that the US version is far better than the British one. However I think that I only believe this because the style of making shows in Britain is different from the way it is done in the US, and I mostly watch American shows.

When I lived in the UK it striked me how different the UK make shows than in the US. A show in the UK that is popular amongst the British can be almost unwatchable for someone who is used to American shows.

The British QaF is made in a semi documentary style. The personality development is not very great. Even though the characters talk about about themselves a bit the viewer still knows very little about who they are. They are paper mache characters who hardly differ from one another.

It strikes me that the characters in the British version often say what they feel like through monologues that are addressed to the audience and not to other characters and not very much to each other as well. I prefer it when characters tell each other what they feel like and why, so that you are not left wondering what would have happened if one lad had actually told his crush that he was dissappointed as he found out he does not want to see him again.

 

For my birthday, which happened to be on the same day as Gale Harold in QaF, my sister gave me a coupon that was worth 50 bob.

With it I had bought the first and second season of the Office (UK) and the first season of Breaking Bad and the Qeer film Save me.

If Gale Harold can feel unashamed about being a strait guy who shags men in front of the camera, then I can seeing films on Qeers. I hope it's not shit though.