QAF

[jackhammer91406]

Speaking of returning shows, I watched Queer As Folk tonight. I missed several new episodes while in Florida , but have pretty much caught up with the new season story line.

Tonight's episode seems to be developing an arc involving Emmitt and a hot quarterback. That guy tonight was really smokey. He shows even more skin in the previews for next week. Anyone know who that actor is?

[VaHawk]

Sorry to ignore your question specifically, but glad that you opened this thread on QAF!

 

I railed about the quality of QAF this season, after the season premiere. But with each succeeding show this season, it has REVERTED back to being the silly, assinined bullshit of all the other seasons that preceded it!

 

Too BAD!, as it PROMISED so much more in it's season premiere! Hopefully, this show will DIE and cease to exist after this current season!

 

BUT, GOD willing, Sharon Gless, will find the RIGHT vehicle to showcase her talents, as they are WASTED on this pathetic piece of crap!

[+ deej]

> Hopefully, this show will DIE and cease to exist after this

>current season!

 

Just your luck! It's been renewed for another season.

[Guest bighugbearphx]

The role of the football player was played by actor Matt Battaglia. If you want to know more about him, check out the link below

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061307/

[jackhammer91406]

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/HH/0061307/th-Matt2.jpg

 

 

Yup, that's the guy. thanks

He is pretty hot. Think he is family? The bio says nothing about a wife or kids.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Hawk, we're running on the same wavelength on this one~

 

If you're looking for a good gay-based show with much stronger acting and better plotlines, i would stick with the original, now-defunct, QAF from the UK. Seemingly, the US version is becoming way too cookie-cutter and taking on a 'Full House' vibe where every problem is magically solved in the 45 alloted minutes.

 

Seeing gratuitious sex in the show is meaningless if there isn't a plot to back it up. Lately QAF has had many moments where it just feels like bad Skinemax porno, rather than a risque gay drama.

 

The best actors on the American version (IMO) are Sharon Gless and Scott Lowell. They are the only two in the cast that seem to portray three-dimensional characters with real feeling in relation to their issues. They don't just react like most everyone else on the show... They listen and then react. Playwright David Mamet teaches his students to ALWAYS pay attention to puncuation in a script. It's the one most important thing most actors tend to forget. They begin to 'gallop' when speaking and eventually the piece goes stale. I've noticed that Gless and Lowell don't do this, while repeat offenders like Randy Harrison absolutely make me insane when listening to him.

 

Gless, as Hawk mentioned, is destined for greater things than QAF and honestly needs to look into going into a role that would garner an award or two. She's got more than enough acting chops... Now all she needs is the right script. Lowell's character of Ted is incredibly complex, especially with last season's switch into drug addiction. It's Lowell's ability to be subtle (physically and otherwise) with his character that consistantly draws me in. Luckily, he seems to be getting a larger role in more recent shows, as the previous seasons put his development on the backburner while focusing more on the 'Justin/Brian' saga.

 

Aside from QAF, if you're looking for other Must-See TV, then tune to Showtime on Thursday evenings for Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT. It's funny, it's educational and it's smart without being stagnant. I'm also looking foward to a new season of 'Dead Like Me' with one of my favorites, Mandy Patinkin.

 

WHOOHOO! Happy Watching

 

 

Warmest Always,

 

 

 

Benjamin Nicholas

[Spida]

I enjoy many different shows, not all have to be edgy and have great writing after all I personally liked friends and miss the half hour of not thinking about anything at all but watching laughing and or seeing hot guys have sex! So on that level I enjoy the show. And I think the football player is very very very hot!! Whoa!! I can't wait to see him again next week. He has been on a few other things I have seen him before one of them was Friends he was Fibi's boyfriend when she was dating two hotties! One was a firefighter the other was sensitive.. BOTH of those hotties are on QAF now! The other is Ben!! So yummy that is what I enjoy.

[eastbayguy]

>The best actors on the American version (IMO) are Sharon Gless

>and Scott Lowell. They are the only two in the cast that seem

>to portray three-dimensional characters with real feeling in

>relation to their issues. They don't just react like most

>everyone else on the show... They listen and then react.

 

I wish they'd give Gless a little more rope or improved writing. The way her character now ends all conflict oriented conversations by bonking someone (as opposed to boinking someone) just makes me cringe. It seemed like the first few shows this year all featured Gless bopping someone. Hitting people is not the first step I want people taking in resolving conflicts with me.

 

Hal Sparks needs voice lessons. Does his voice have only one possibility for speaking? Ever word out of his mouth seems emotionally overwrought somehow. Hearing him speak just makes me crazy.

 

Love Scott Lowell. Need to arrange cloning for him. Either the original or the clone would make a marvelous boyfriend.

 

--EBG

[Guest rohale]

This is very interesting to read in terms of the different opinions being expressed. I had a chance to watch a few clips by chance this past weekend and I find the current season to be absolutely boring. The backbone of the show is the legendary actress Sharon Gless. I don't think anyone would argue otherwise. She goes from to strength and she puts the rest of the cast to shame. I think the show should be put out to pasture. I wouldn't be suprised that once the show officially stops taping, she might try her hand at theatre work. It would give her a break from television and it also gives a break for the general public who have endured her for the last twenty years as a season veteran actress of television.

Recently veteran BBC newscaster Jan Leeming interviewed Russel T.Davies, who was the creator of the original QAF for Channel 4 in Great Britain. He didn't have too many polite words to say about the U.S version. From his point of view, the show steered well clear of his original concept which was to show how ordinary gay people handle themselves in reality based everyday situations. He doesn't believe the Showtime version does justice to what he created. Let's not forget had Mr Davies not taken the risks that he undertook, there would never have been the Showtime version. Russel T.Davies single handedly convinced Michael Grade who was then the programme controller for Channel 4 that there is an audience out there that could relate to being harrassed because of sexual orientation. Mr Grade agreed and put the show on Prime time television. The British public hated it and there was an uproar but that was the effect that Mr Davies wanted. He wanted the general public to question the old way of thinking and some did and most didn't. Mr Davies even got death threats on his life and as he always says, it was not a very plesant experience to go through but he wanted the public to think. Now the U.K version of QAF didn't have strong ratings to compete the other channels but at it's best it could move people. To this day there are many websites dedicated to QAF and all because a struggling writer took a risk with his career.

Now whilst many people out there have both positive and negative opinons of the current version of QAF, let's not forget just how far back in time QAF really goes and the enormous sacrifices that those brilliant writers and producers were willing to make in the name of artistical achievement.

 

Rohale

[Guest alanm]

I enjoyed your comments, but the American version of QAF is a gay

soap opera nothong more nothing less. Showtime clearly does not have the kind of money that HBO has to invest in producers, writers. directors, actors, etc. QAF is not in the same league with "The Sopranos" or "Six Feet Under"

 

Like most soaps, QAF is awful if just watch an occasional episode,

better if your watch the show on a regular basis. Ted's storyline this year has been interesting and realistic from his ill fated post rehab romance with Blake to his current job with Brian. QAF seems to be showing less skin this year, but the football star arrived last week to add some novelity to the show. I agree that Gless is and excellent actress.