My 9th grade algebra teacher used to admonish a wrong answer with, "good try, no cigar". Thus, having watched the prior British and American versions, I feel this remake tried but just didn't quite cut it. It was ok. The main characters, Ruthie, Mingus and Brodie were nothing more than exaggerated narcissistic, hedonistic, and not so varied character types ubiquitous in LGBT productions. Interestingly, some of the sub-characters were much more developed, nuanced and credible. Noah, Julian, Shar, Ali and Marvin so much better developed roles. While I appreciated the effort towards a more diverse LGBT universe, I'm not sure whether it hurt or helped when the setting was NOLA, a city with a significant black LGBT community. Yet, I'm not suggesting that it needed to be predominantly black. What I do want to be clear about is that a reboot of a known work needs to have it's own spark, which I just didn't get. I felt like I'd just seen this movie before. Was I watching "Queer as Folk", "Generations", "It's a Sin", "EastSiders" "Noah's Arc"?
Review of Queer as Folk
