Queer as Folk

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But maybe we shouldnt start at the beginning.

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Maybe we should start at the end.

A moment of pure unadulterated queer joy is struck silent by a string of bullets from an unseen shooter.

The shooting is the fulcrum of the episode.

In that sense, making the shooting the pivotal moment of your pilot episode is a wild gamble.

Thankfully, Dunn has created such fully rounded characters that none of us has to worry.

This is why I wanted to start with the end.

Because the shooting is not the end.

This show may begin with a bang, but it will not be defined by it.

It will not define its community by it.

I can already tell Im going to be obsessed with every one of the spaces featured in this series.

is DIVINE, and I want more more more of them, like.