UK Versus US Wrap Up Show
Still Queer as Folk
We've reached the end! Every single episode of the original UK Queer as Folk and the US version of the show are in the bag.
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5.13 We Will Survive!
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Michael speaks at an anti-Prop-14 press conference, but deviates away from his prepared speech when Debbie and bunch of people we’ve never seen before show up. Ted’s new BF Tad get a bit obsessive and freaks out everyone in sight. Brian and Justin call off their wedding, and Justin leaves for New York. Melanie and Lindsay also hit the road and pack up their Subaru for the drive to their new home in Toronto.
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5.12 Mr Right (Never Broke a Promise)
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Brian and Justin keep barreling towards marriage even as Justin’s career as a painter awaits him in New York. Melanie and Lindsay ask for Brian and Michael’s blessing to take their children out of the country, with Michael agreeing, but Brian disagreeing. Drew and Emmett break up after Emmett realizes that Drew needs to fuck around for a while before he will be capable of having a relationship. We meet Ted’s new boyfriend Tad, who immediately starts calling the shots in the relationship.
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5.11 F-ing Revenge
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Everyone comes to terms with the bombing and what it means to their lives, in very different ways. Brian makes an improbable swing to marriage with Justin, Ben attacks proposition 14 supports, and Drew Boyd speaks at the vigil. Melanie and Lindsay consider a new future for themselves and their children that doesn’t include Pittsburgh or any of their long term friends and fathers and Ted continues to blame himself for Michael’s injuries and seeks out a form of punishment in a bathhouse.
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5.10 I Love You
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The lives of every character are rocked by anti-proposition 14 sentiment that culminates in a Babylon fundraiser being targeted with a bomb.
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5.09 Anything in Common
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Brian and Michael continue to quarrel over Michael’s new life, ending in Michael calling it quits and moving on from Brian. Ben and Michael come to terms with what it means to publicly fight against Proposition 14. We meet Jennifer Taylor’s new boyfriend, a hunky science teacher named Tuck who whisks her away on a motorcycle. Ted’s search for a husband leads him to a Jewish mixer where he meets a hot as fuck urologist who discovers that Ted isn’t Jewish. Drew Boyd comes out on live TV!
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5.08 Honest to Yourself
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Brian’s midlife crisis reaches a head when he wins his bet with Brandon, but opts not to collect his reward. Drew Boyd is outed in a tabloid and turns to Emmett for advice. Ben continues to stress over Hunter’s departure and clashes with Michael as he begins giving away Hunter’s possessions. Lindsay and Melanie begin their home-separation with mixed results, and Justin confronts his father over his supporting the anti-gay initiative Proposition 14 and ends up being arrested.
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5.07 Hope Against Hope
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Justin dumps Brian and moves in with Ben and Michael, much to the consternation of Brian. After banning Random Hot Guy Brandon from Babylon, Brian launches a contest with him to top the ten hottest guys in Pittsburgh. Ben is still depressed over Hunter running away from home, and it took Homer and Achilles to snap him out of it and join Michael in protest of Proposition 14. Lindsay decides to move in with her parents, which doesn’t last when they try to set her up with a hunky guy at the dinner table.
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5.06 Bored Outta Ya Fing Mind
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A newcomer on the scene appears and challenges Brian’s dominance of Liberty Avenue by rejecting him! Justin continues to yearn for a relationship with Brian that is more like Ben and Michael’s. Hunter’s struggle with his classmates knowing that he’s HIV positive and he runs away from home. Emmett goes a bit too far as Queer Guy and scandalously shows off underwear on live television. Ted starts a revenge game with the guy that pity-fucked him two years ago at Pride.
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5.05 Excluding and Abstemiousness
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The fight over baby JR intensifies causing Melanie, Lindsay, Michael and Ben to confront the situation at the hospital. Lindsay and Michael are withdrawing from the three way custody agreement. Hunter’s troubles at school continue. Loretta’s awkward injection into Queer as Folk comes to an end after Debbie at long last tells her that she’s straight and not interested in her.
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It first aired in the US on May 22nd, 2005. This episode played back to back with the season 5 premiere episode. It was written by Del Shores, his sixth of eight episodes, and he also produced 41 episodes of the show.
“Back in Business” was directed by Michael DeCarlo, his tenth of eleven episodes. Most recently he directed “Proposal of Two Kinds” in season four. We weren’t a big fan of that episode, but we did like his episode from season 2 called Bowling for Equality, which was the cops versus queers bowling match.
Here’s the synopsis of “Back in Business.” A tug of war breaks out over JR when Michael hires a lawyer to gain joint custody of the infant. In the background, Lindsay starts to consider her own parental rights and asks Brian to get Michael to back off. Justin returns from Hollywood and mysteriously tells everyone except Brian how much he hated it, and how he was glad to be back in Pittsburg.
Ted has what can best be described as a mid-life crisis and bleaches his hair, punches up his clothing, and starts considering plastic surgery. In a story line directly stolen from Bravo, Emmett is offered a job as an on-air Queer Guy for a local television station.
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