It is quite apparent now how much of the early success of this series was due to copying of the storyline of the original British series. Once it had to bring in entirely its own stories so that it can extend this series into 5 seasons, the poverty of ideas and trashiness of the story lines just made it unbearable to watch. It was good to watch it for the first series, but the second series was barely OK, the third absolutely dire and the rest never got better.
It morphed into a show that is empty of any real emotion, truthful observation of human reality or indeed any of the sexual insight that the original British series had, and turned into a vehicle for tiresome political activism, spiced with an endless parade of narcissistic gays who really all should go kill themselves off when aged 30 like Brian tried to do in the first season.
It is pointless to list the awfulness of the later series, the unrealistic story lines, absurd characterisations, poor scripts and dialogue, plastic emotion and farcical political agitprop. It became just a show for those who don't have too much inside their heads yet who like to think that they are watching a show about "real issues", but one that also allow them to goggle at male flesh at the same time. It is a show for the dim, the soulless and the sex-obsessed urban gays.
Thank god it is finally gone.
It morphed into a show that is empty of any real emotion, truthful observation of human reality or indeed any of the sexual insight that the original British series had, and turned into a vehicle for tiresome political activism, spiced with an endless parade of narcissistic gays who really all should go kill themselves off when aged 30 like Brian tried to do in the first season.
It is pointless to list the awfulness of the later series, the unrealistic story lines, absurd characterisations, poor scripts and dialogue, plastic emotion and farcical political agitprop. It became just a show for those who don't have too much inside their heads yet who like to think that they are watching a show about "real issues", but one that also allow them to goggle at male flesh at the same time. It is a show for the dim, the soulless and the sex-obsessed urban gays.
Thank god it is finally gone.