Rotten Tomatoes 100% (7 critics). Widely acknowledged as a watershed in LGBTQ television representation - the first British drama to depict gay life without apology, condescension, or tragedy as the inevitable horizon. Russell T Davies won the BAFTA for Best Drama Serial.
Renewal: Two-series run concluded in February 2000. Creator Russell T Davies wrote all ten episodes. The series was always conceived as a finite story and has not been revived in its original form. (Wikipedia)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 11999 · 8 eps | 23 February 1999 | 9.0 | 100% | 76.0/100 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 22000 · 2 eps | 15 February 2000 | 8.5 | 100% | n/a | MUST-WATCH |
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The opening hour of Queer as Folk is constructed around the meeting of Stuart and Nathan, and the ripple effects through Vince. Davies establishes Canal Street as a world with its own rules, social hierarchies, and pleasures - a documentary impulse filtered through a very specific dramatic sensibility.
The Series 1 finale refuses neat resolution. Stuart remains Stuart; Vince's devotion has cost him something he may not fully account yet; Nathan has changed in ways that the story will need the second series to complete. Davies resists the tragic ending that the genre conventions of the time demanded.
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