Here’s what the “Queer as Folk” reboot is missing
Spoilers ahead for Season 1 of “Queer as Folk”This weekend, I started watching the new “Queer as Folk” reboot.
As a guilty fan of the original show, I was excited to see my favorite characters and dated early ’00s situations get revised in a modern context: but more importantly, I didn’t know what to expect.
I knew there was going to be an arc involving the Pulse shooting (or something heavily based on it) and that the cast was going to be diverse enough to include intersections of POC, trans, nonbinary, and disabled identities, as opposed to the lily-white Showtime version.
The series kept its promises, for the most part. The new show is full of diverse characters and conversations, and it strives to present a more realistic sense of what it means to be queer in the context of today, a time when we don’t have to fight tooth and nail against anti-Prop 8 measures or homophobic assumptions about what it means to be living with HIV.
