We watched this from the first episode until the last. We started watching this on a Saturday morning and we couldn't stop watching it until we had watched the entire series. It was very surreal for both my husband and myself to be taken back to 28 Barbary Lane, a place I too discovered in 1994. This was originally shown in the U.K. and then it was shown on PBS in the U.S. in 1994. It was the same time that I had come to terms that without a doubt, I too was gay. I had known this since I was about 12 years old as I was always attracted to older men and especially those with beards. I tried to change this one thing about myself through my teens and it led to drinking to much and self medicating with marijuana. I just felt absolutely no chemistry with the opposite sex and I knew that someday I was going to have to tell my secret. It's like trying to make your brown eyes blue mentally, it isn't possible.
I basically cried through the first episode of the new Netflix series as I felt exactly like Mary Ann Singleton did in the first episode should I decide to return to the city where I grew up and became a man. The original series was the absolute best thing on television at the time and I found it by accident. I read an article in an alternative paper about the series coming to our PBS and I was glued to the TV. Finally, a television series I could relate to was being shown on my favorite channel, PBS! Luckily my PBS station was in a larger market in Norfolk VA and the nudity was not pixelated like most areas. But when I think back to the era the original series was on PBS, it is just amazing that they we're showing this series in 1994. We've come a long way since then.
I have read all the books in the series by Armistead Maupin and loved everyone of them. He's an excellent story teller and author. I found the book "Micheal Toliver Lives" to be a great read. I can relate to the book in many ways. My now Husband whom I've been in a monogamous relationship with for 19yrs is older than myself , however he's not HIV positive. It's why we we're both looking for a monogamous relationship. We we're both negative and had explored our sexuality. He is a man who was lived through the dangerous time of the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and I was fresh out of High School and terrified of exploring sexual experiences with others because of the nonsense I was taught in School. I was not promiscuous as a lot of others were, but I did have experience with less than 10 people and I was very safe in my adventures. When we meet in New Orleans in 1998, I knew he was old enough to be my dad, but there was chemistry I had never felt. He felt it as well. We complimented each other very well and we still do all these years later. We've never had a fight or even an argument where we've raised our voices at each other!
I don't know why the Critics reviews of this new and incredibly interesting addition to this series was judged so harshly. I thought it was well done and it is great that the younger generation of LGBTQ people can discover the other three prequels and see how living as gay or other so called "alternative lifestyles" can be an incredible life if your careful about how you live your life. I think people who live in major city have a much easier time living their lives in the way each and every one of us we're created. Being LGBTQ is not a choice! When I was ready to start exploring my sexuality, it was a time when you had to be extremely careful about whom and where you were going to discover the one thing you couldn't tell anyone. I even learned about other types of sexual genres that I didn't realize existed from this Netflix series. So at 49, I actually learned more about other sexual issues besides being gay.
Of course, I cried during the last episode as well as I knew exactly what was going to happen. The series took an interesting turn that I didn't expect that made transgender issues an integral part of the whole series. From the original version through the other two series and ending with this one, it's been one of the best and most educational shows for me personally. Loved everything about this Netflix series!
I basically cried through the first episode of the new Netflix series as I felt exactly like Mary Ann Singleton did in the first episode should I decide to return to the city where I grew up and became a man. The original series was the absolute best thing on television at the time and I found it by accident. I read an article in an alternative paper about the series coming to our PBS and I was glued to the TV. Finally, a television series I could relate to was being shown on my favorite channel, PBS! Luckily my PBS station was in a larger market in Norfolk VA and the nudity was not pixelated like most areas. But when I think back to the era the original series was on PBS, it is just amazing that they we're showing this series in 1994. We've come a long way since then.
I have read all the books in the series by Armistead Maupin and loved everyone of them. He's an excellent story teller and author. I found the book "Micheal Toliver Lives" to be a great read. I can relate to the book in many ways. My now Husband whom I've been in a monogamous relationship with for 19yrs is older than myself , however he's not HIV positive. It's why we we're both looking for a monogamous relationship. We we're both negative and had explored our sexuality. He is a man who was lived through the dangerous time of the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and I was fresh out of High School and terrified of exploring sexual experiences with others because of the nonsense I was taught in School. I was not promiscuous as a lot of others were, but I did have experience with less than 10 people and I was very safe in my adventures. When we meet in New Orleans in 1998, I knew he was old enough to be my dad, but there was chemistry I had never felt. He felt it as well. We complimented each other very well and we still do all these years later. We've never had a fight or even an argument where we've raised our voices at each other!
I don't know why the Critics reviews of this new and incredibly interesting addition to this series was judged so harshly. I thought it was well done and it is great that the younger generation of LGBTQ people can discover the other three prequels and see how living as gay or other so called "alternative lifestyles" can be an incredible life if your careful about how you live your life. I think people who live in major city have a much easier time living their lives in the way each and every one of us we're created. Being LGBTQ is not a choice! When I was ready to start exploring my sexuality, it was a time when you had to be extremely careful about whom and where you were going to discover the one thing you couldn't tell anyone. I even learned about other types of sexual genres that I didn't realize existed from this Netflix series. So at 49, I actually learned more about other sexual issues besides being gay.
Of course, I cried during the last episode as well as I knew exactly what was going to happen. The series took an interesting turn that I didn't expect that made transgender issues an integral part of the whole series. From the original version through the other two series and ending with this one, it's been one of the best and most educational shows for me personally. Loved everything about this Netflix series!