Let's try and predict the upcoming episode of QaF as penned by Roxane Gay

They will all have bad eyebrows.

Any women in the show will be traumatised by men wearing shorts in cold weather

Everyone will be EXHAUSTED.

R3 They should all go for a walk.

Classic Roxane dialogue, R4:

Guy #1: Hey, why don't we go for a walk?

Guy #2: Fix your eyebrows!

Cue Roxane sitting back, chuckling to herself after writing such a zinger!

There will be a buffet of Ding Dongs and Devil Dogs.

Copious mentions of "Queen Beyoncé".

Who is she? If she were so honest she’d talk about only being gay because she can’t get a man.

Someone will say, exasperated: "I KNOW that! Do you think I didn't know that?"

Fatphobia will be a plot point.

And so much exhaustion.

Lots of dialogue spoken with sighs and full of tiredness.

Someone will give a speech where they DO THE WORK of unpacking their generational trauma and then have to take a 72-hr nap to recover from their exhaustion.

There's going to be some clapping and some clapping back.

And lots of SMH-ing.

There'll be no actual action. For example, unlike in the original where the guys would get together to rally to fight against homophobia, Roxane's characters will sit around, complaining about everything, but doing nothing to help.

This would be a fun drinking game, take a shot every time a "Roxane-ism" is used, like: "It's not my job to educate you!"

Seriously, if that line turns up, I will piss myself. I wasn't going to watch the reboot, but I may have to watch her episode, at least.

The gang will all get together to agree not to allow some slightly awkward gay guy hanging around the join the group. When the guy is hurt by their callousness, the group will call it typical "white tears" and then make fun of his kidney donation.

I remember that episode. I was under so much stress and duress! The pressure!

So... what [italic]was[/italic] the episode like in the end?

According to Wiki, she actually co-wrote the episode with someone called Azam Mahmood, and it's called "Choke", but I can't find a synopsis anywhere yet.

R22 in this thread hate-watched the Gay-penned episode and offered some thoughts.

Thanks, R22!

Ooooh, her co-writer is a standup comedian. Now THAT'S a set I want to hear if he talks about collaborating with Roxane!

Haha, R20, there's a lot of potential humour there, I agree! Having to sit that close to all her exhaustion, day after day!

[quote]Today the new Queer as Folk is streaming on Peacock. I worked alongside wonderful writers like Brontez Purnell, Azam Mahmoud, Punkie Johnson, Ryan O’Connell, Des Moran and show runners Jaclyn Moore and Stephen Dunn. I hope you check out the first season. It’s queer as fuck.

[quote] Punkie Johnson

STOP IT.

"I need to go to the bathroom."

"OK."

"Want to come?"

"No. I don't have to go to the bathroom."

"Neither do I." [pause] "I want to suck your dick in the bathroom."

"Excuse me? We need to have a conversation about consent."

"Do you consent?"

"Why did you just assume I consent to oral sex in the bathroom? Because I present as male? I am a complex being physiologically and sexually. I am neither male nor female."

"You don't have a dick?!"

"I was born with a penis, but that does not define me as a man. Gender is nothing but a construct. I have constructed my own identity as we all do. What you see when you look at me is not who I am. I contain multitudes. I am neither male nor female, neither white nor black. Neither gay nor straight."

"How would you define yourself, then?"

"Offended."

"By what? What did I say?!"

"That's how I define myself: offended. It's the basis of my identity. If you prick me, I do not bleed. But I sure as fuck am offended."

"Being perpetually offended isn't very sexy."

"That's offensive. We need to break down your paradigms so that you can learn to find the sex appeal in consenting genderfluid desexed individuals of colorless color who will be offended by everything you say and do. Only then will you be free, free of society's criticisms of you for being...you."

Roxane is such a snake. She's deleted that tweet at R22, it's like she's now trying to pretend she had nothing to do with the show at all, but she not only wrote one episode, she was involved across the board with every episode from 3 onwards, by her own admission.

Say what you want (and I certainly have!) but that Jaclyn Moore was at least gracious enough to thank the people who worked on the show and express disappointment after it was cancelled.

Roxane's creepy.

I doubt Roxane will get much more work writing shos after the disaster of this reboot.

We keep finding out again and again: if you hire people to write shows just because they're woke and well known in identity politics circles, you'll just get shrill shows no one will want to see, and you'll have problems with temperamental writers. This happened both with this show and "Pose."

R25 Only after the bomb exploded. She's a cunt for wroting this trash, either way.

This thread is hilarious.

I knew she was nasty, but I didn't know HOW nasty she really is.

Oh yeah, R28, just when you think she's bad she does something worse. But at least she provides amusement for us here.