Queer as Folk Reboot: Trailer, cast, release date

Peacock gives us our first look at the new “Queer as Folk” series. The show – a reboot of the 2000s series, which was based on the original British series – is set to stream in June. It follows a group of LGBTQ + friends in New Orleans who are trying to rebuild their lives and communities as they go through a terrible tragedy.

Creator Stephen Dunn told The Hollywood Reporter that the show is less of a “restart” and more of a “resumption.” He explained: “If you squint, you can see the character sheet types that exist, which is a small reference [to the original] but I’m not heading in the same direction as any of the other versions of the show before. “

Perhaps the biggest difference between the new “Queer as Folk” and the original is the political context. As seen in the trailer, in the new series, the characters are all at a gay bar in New Orleans as it is attacked by an armed man, repeating 2016’s Pulse shooting. Dunn told The Hollywood Reporter that he talked a lot with Pulse survivors, and some of them acted as consultants in the series.

Dunn told The Hollywood Reporter that the set-up of the series in New Orleans made it natural to showcase a wider range of diversity than the original series did. He explained, “New Orleans is an important part of that approach because it has the most unique, vibrant queer community I’ve ever been in. The city itself, despite having a Bourbon Street reputation, is nature queer, resilient and defiant. It is the queer and liberal oasis in the deep south, so it attracts querdos from all over the world, but in this way that you, because of what surrounds them, must be so much stronger. ”

Read on for everything we know about the new “Queer as Folk” series, including the trailer, cast and first look pictures.