The eight-episode season opens with the handsome 30-something-looking-way-younger Brodie (Devin Way) returning to town, and into a series of conflicts with his ex-boyfriend Noah (Johnny Sibilly) and trans best friend Ruthie (Jesse James Keitel), who is partnered and about to become a parent to twins with non-binary partner Shar (CG)-thanks to Brodie’s sperm.īrodie is also reunited with his gay buddy Daddius (Chris Renfro), who is hiding a secret from Brodie, and there is also tension for Brodie with his family, which as well as having Kim Cattrall as mom Brenda includes brother Julian ( Special’s Ryan O’Connell, who has cerebral palsy, and who is also a writer and co-executive producer of Queer as Folk).
(Davies has given his hearty blessing to this new version, created by Stephen Dunn.)Īnother big departure: Kim Cattrall may no longer be Samantha Jones, but here she is, playing Brenda, a Martini-mainlining mom with a fluttery Southern accent, and not as conventional as she at first seems. This is not, as it was, a show featuring a central cast of hot, able-bodied, cis white lesbians, gay men and bisexuals, yet its script is still lubed with the wit and sass that has been part of Queer as Folk from the very beginning, thanks to its creator Russell T.
