Yeah, I didn’t see much chatter about this. No. 1, it aired on Peacock, which few people have. No. 2, it’s not 2001 anymore. There’s much more LGBT content out there; there’s much more content, period; better Internet and the accessibility of gay porn means that people don’t need to watch a racy show like QAF to be titillated by hot guys thrusting.
Dunn bit off way more than he could chew with this. If he had tightened the canvas to just a handful of characters and really developed them as human beings, this would have been much more satisfying. Too focused on making ham-fisted statements about identity and visibility, not focused enough on creating an interesting world of people so that those statements could actually land.