Queer as Folk (UK)

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Season 1
  • Network: Channel 4
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 23, 1999
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
8.8

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5

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  1. itsrobert13
    Nov 12, 2014
    10
    I met this tv show when the US version of this came to an end, and you know the proverb about curiosity. It was the the best decision I've ever made. Both the first and second season made me mourn with their end, and continues today.

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Sarah Lyall
    May 24, 2022
    70
    As Queer as Folk continued its eight-week run, a strange thing happened. It began to mellow into a compelling drama that many viewers began to find as absorbing as any late-night soap opera. [15 Apr 1999, p.E1]
  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Hannah Verdier
    May 24, 2022
    80
    Channel 4’s turn-of-the-millennium exploration of life on Manchester’s Canal Street is packed with uplifting moments, painful shocks and sexy shenanigans.
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  3. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Robert Hanks
    May 24, 2022
    50
    Honestly, the men in Russell T Davies's drama, with their rabbity, unchecked impulses and their feckless lifestyles, are not a sympathetic bunch. Least of all Stuart, the homme fatal at the centre, whose thoroughgoing egoism is absurdly overwritten, and whose loft-style apartment is quite repellently chic. [26 Feb 1999, p.18]
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