Queer As Folk - Definitive Collector's Edition [DVD] [1999]

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The UK (and original) version of the series, this is, to me, the story of the ultimate romance. Few film-based works make me feel they should actually have been books, and this is one of them. That is the highest compliment I can give to any work of art.

The story revolves around two gay friends, sex magnet Stuart and his self-effacing best friend Vince, who club their way around Manchester, with only their frequent party favours and thick Cockney accents to see them from one sexual encounter to the next. Then, 15-year old Nathan, Stuart's latest one-night stand, decides that Stuart is the love of his life, runs away from home and lands up at Vince's mother's. His aim? Reciprocity from Stuart, who is twice his age and only cares about bedding (or just folking?) every man in the UK (except Vince, who he is saving for old age).

Along the way, we have a homophobic car dealer, Ottowan's "D.I.S.C.O" being recited at a funeral, innumerable Dr. Who references and some brilliantly written lines. Somewhere in all this is also the greatest love tale I have ever seen/heard/read.

The series, by grace of its short tenure, is extremely taut, yet allows enough time for the excellent script and wonderful characters to take off. All of the cast is brilliant, but it is Aidan Gillen's selfish, fatally charming, actually-insecure Stuart who lodges the longest.

Please watch this. Apparently it was considered "controversial" in the UK. So do an across-the-Atlantic translation as well.

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Updated Apr 10, 2009

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