The eight-episode season begins with the fateful homecoming of Brodie (Devin Way), a charming, hot-tempered young gay man who decides to visit his adoptive mother, Brenda (Kim Cattrall), and disabled brother, Julian (Ryan O’Connell), after dropping out of medical school. “It was something where everyone was affected and unified by this horrible tragedy in such a way that it felt like a story about a community rebuilding could be the premise for a show.”
“There’s no community that is more fractured, more sprawling, and that has so much division, but I told Russell that the last time I remembered the queer community really coming together was after the Pulse nightclub shooting,” Dunn, 33, said in an interview provided to the press. The tragedy, which is reminiscent of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida, was the basis of the initial pitch that convinced Davies to give Dunn the rights to the prestigious property around five years ago. Created by Stephen Dunn, the new “Queer as Folk,” which premiered Thursday, follows a diverse group of friends whose lives are upended in the aftermath of a mass shooting at Babylon, a fictional gay bar in New Orleans.
