Queers and Casanova

Brian: So in other words, for Justin to live here with you, he has to deny who he is... what he thinks... and how he feels. Well, that's not love. That's hate.
-Queer as Folk, Season One

Good news! The gal at work who I have a hard time standing gave her two-weeks notice and will no longer be at the bar. Hoorah!

On Friday night (the one I requested off but couldn’t get it because whiney gal – see above – swindled her way into getting it off instead) I went to work only to find out that the bartender who was scheduled for downstairs called off. Long story short, Jan said I could go home. Yeah, I ended up getting the night off after all, but only after I showed up and skipped the Hungry Eye reading because I knew I wouldn’t make it until 2 a.m. without a nap. Ugh. The bright side – Constance, Lynn, and Nicole were at the bar so I chatted with them for a while then went to Nicole’s to watch the pilot episode of Queer as Folk. She let me take Season One home and I did a Queer marathon. Now I need Season Two.

One thing I must say about the show is the writers are good. This is a show where they set up a situation and I think, “Now, if they were smart they’d do this,” and they do. It also pisses me off because a lot of the being smart means not resolving all the issues they bring up in a given episode, which means I have to watch the next one to find out what happened (except they bring up something else and don't resolve it so I have to watch another episode, and it just goes on like that). They really pissed me off, though, with the Season One finale. At the end of the episode, Justin is rushed to the hospital thanks to one of the students at his school taking a baseball bat to his head. We see him pulled out of the ambulance, blood everywhere. We see Brian sitting on a bench, also bloody. We see Michael come and sit by Brian, obviously worried. We see the credits. So, what happened to Justin?! Bastards. Of course, I know he lives, but damnit, that was mean of them. Luckily, since I’m doing the DVDs vs. watching it on real TV, I don’t have to wait months to get to the next season. Ha! I just have to catch up with Nicole.

Movie Review: Casanova. Yeah, um. No. Come on people, Casanova was a man-slut. “Rewriting” him as the man-slut turned loyal hubbie type is just wrong. Give me a friggin’ break. I love Heath Ledger, but this movie fell flat. Sienna Miller was good as Francesca, and Charlie Cox was cute. Ultimately, though, the plot conflicts were resolved too neatly, everything/everyone got matched up and tied in a pretty knot. Ugh. Get real. Yeah, the Masterpiece Theatre Casanova kicks this one's ass.

Guess what? I just looked up Russell T. Davies on imdb.com and found out that not only is he responsible for producing Queer as Folk he is also responsible for the Masterpiece Theatre version of Casanova! Funny ol' world, aint it?