What Peacock's new "Queer as Folk" reboot nails when it comes to painting a picture of the real-life gay culture of New Orleans is that if you want to be part of a vibrant, inclusive, non-Trump-supporting scene that's with it enough to understand "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" references, you're gonna have to make it your damn self.
The original "white as the driven snow" series, a remake of a British series that debuted on Showtime in 2005, is given a rebirth in name only by this new version that features a cast of fresh faces who are diverse in an intentionally inclusive way that would not have even crossed showrunners' minds in the early 2000s, and is a fantasy reflection of the present-day LGBTQ scene here in New Orleans, where my wife and I transplanted ourselves from New York in 2015. If it took 17 years for writers and casting agents to get this show right; maybe, if we're lucky, the city it was filmed in will only take 17 years to catch up to it.
