Queer As Folk (2022)

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Season 1
  • Network: Peacock
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 9, 2022
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8

Critic Reviews

  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Manuel Betancourt
    Jun 7, 2022
    83
    Queer As Folk finds ever more delicious and delirious ways of offering prickly story beats and character arcs that refuse to flatten or homogenize the LGBTQ+ community.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Angie Han
    Jun 8, 2022
    80
    Despite the heavy premise, the series as a whole is surprisingly light on its feet. Sure, here and there are painful excavations of trauma or equally tear-jerking moments of defiant joy. But for the most part, the series allows its characters to be every bit as messy or silly or sexy or serious after the shooting as they were before.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tony Bravo
    Jun 8, 2022
    75
    “Queer as Folk” rises to the occasion when it explores the bigger contemporary themes in the LGBTQ community, even when the show is tethered to some of the baggage of previous versions of the series.
  5. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jun 10, 2022
    68
    Proves itself a pretty good queer soap if you can tolerate how self-absorbed, narcissistic and generally unlikeable most of the characters are.
  6. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Jul 1, 2022
    60
    The programme remains essentially joyful, which can mean there are some jarring tonal shifts, but generally they just about get away with it. Perhaps that is because the bedrock is firm. Messy lives are rendered with truth and confidence.
  7. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Jun 9, 2022
    60
    While there’s a lot of messiness in this new version of Queer As Folk, it also introduces an interesting new set of characters and examines how much things have changed and stayed the same for the LGBTQIA community.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Jun 8, 2022
    60
    You’ll never feel bored watching the new “Queer as Folk.” But, for long, antic, tonally uncertain stretches, you might crave feeling something.
  9. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Richard Lawson
    Jun 8, 2022
    50
    A ripped-from-the-headlines premise may locate the new series in the white-hot center of modernity, but Dunn and company extract little insight from that aggressive timeliness. ... It gets there toward the end, when the writers finally start developing real characters beyond mere identity descriptors. But so much of the series is an aimless wander haunted by an annihilating tragedy, a survey of queer existence that locates itself in struggle, interrupted only by bouts of defiant hedonism.