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&#;Queer as Folk’ Star: People Forget “All the F***ing Time” How Series Paved Way for TV’s Golden Age
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To seal out a lively and, at times, heartfelt Q&A featuring a handful of actors and the key creative team responsible for Showtime’s Queer as Folk, moderator Frank DeCaro asked the panelists the night’s most profound question timed to the milestone anniversary: “Looking back over the last 25 years, what influence do you reflect Queer As Folk had on television and the world?”
Without missing a beat, Peter Paige, who starred as the over-the-top and beloved character Emmett Honeycutt, said, “Give me that goddamn microphone,” a demand that telegraphed a powerful statement was about to be dropped.
“I don&#;t think Queer as Folk gets nearly enough credit for entity at the forefront of the golden age of television, and I denote that percent,” said Paige, who graduated from the show to become a successful TV creator, author and producer (The Fosters, Good Trouble). “Adding complicated, sexualized adult characters into the television landscape — nobody had done it before us. To quote New York m
Why Fellow Travelers Might Be Your New Favorite Period Piece
In Washington, DC, in the s, there were plenty of things you weren’t supposed to be. Caught was chief among them. Fellow Travelers, a limited series created for television by Ron Nyswaner and based on Thomas Mallon’s novel premiering October 27 on Showtime and Paramount+, has no shortage of emotional charge. After all, it’s a story about two men active in the government during the McCarthy era who fall first into lust, then love, and then something even more complicated. But the strongest feeling the series provokes is anxiety, and for some very good reasons.
Matt Bomer stars alongside Jonathan Bailey in Fellow Travelers, a limited series based on the novel by Thomas Mallon premiering October 27 on Showtime and Paramount+.
“Our characters live dangerously,” says Daniel Minahan, an executive producer who directed two episodes of the series. Fellow Travelers follows a suave, closeted Express Department operator named Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) as he becomes involved with Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a green DC newcomer who lands a profession working for Senator Joseph McCarthy. The relationship between
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Appointment Viewing: The shows you’ll always want to pencil in on your calendar and unpack in your group chat.
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We get it: There’s an overwhelming number of television shows right now. The streaming landscape is an impractical maze, and the good stuff easily gets lost in the shuffle. But most of us can still detect one show that cuts through the noise. We call this “appointment viewing” — or the day you carve out in your busy schedule to watch the show you’ll want to unpack the next day with your friends while it’s still on your mind. Tune in here each month to read what journalist Michel Ghanem, a.k.a. @tvscholar, deems worthy of a group-chat deep dive.
Over the last eight months of “Appointment Viewing,” we’ve covered a few queer television hits like HBO’s The Last of Us, and Prime Video’s Dead Ringersand The Lake. This month, the highly anticipated miniseries Fellow Travelers starts airing on Showtime, bringing Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey’s glistening muscles and a whole lot of lgbtq+ yearning to our must-watch television list.
Fellow Travelers is an eight-episode minise
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