"Gay" themes win acclaim for HBO. (Insider Report).HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy (that's Hedonist he·don·ism n. 1. Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses. 2. Philosophy The ethical doctrine holding that only what is pleasant or has pleasant consequences is intrinsically good. Box Office) is receiving more showers of media praise for its Emmy award-winning Sex and the City, a sex-com (that's sex comedy) revolving around the pathetically vacuous lives of fashionable Manhattan jezebels. Besides winning accolades for glorifying the self-conscious promiscuity Promiscuity See also Profligacy. Anatol constantly flits from one girl to another. [Aust. Drama: Schnitzler Anatol in Benét, 33] Aphrodite promiscuous goddess of sensual love. [Gk. Myth. of the "liberated" damsels, the series also scores points with the libertine lib·er·tine n. 1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person. 2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker. adj. Morally unrestrained; dissolute. set for its treatment of lesbian and homosexual themes. "It is for this viewer, the best gay series on television, treating gay and lesbian subject matter with insight, objectivity, and equanimity e·qua·nim·i·ty n. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure. [Latin aequanimit ," gushed Alan James Frutkin in an article entitled "The Return of the Show "That Gets Gay Life Right," that appeared in the January 6th New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. "And it's returning with new episodes tonight." Frutkin writes: "Sex and the City" is clearly not a show about gay life (although gay viewers joke that while it concerns four primarily heterosexual women, it's really about gay men -- who else could have so much sex with so little guilt?). But since its 1998 premiere, it has featured story lines portraying contemporary gay life with a wit and depth that at the more overtly gay "Queer as Folk Queer as Folk may refer to:
The two shows are similar, says Frutkin, in that their characters "live in sexual Disneylands" and "spend a great deal of time pursuing or engaging in sex." Of the two shows, though, Frutkin prefers Sex and the City because when it "tackles a gay story line, the writers seem to be able to make it accessible to all audiences, handling it with dexterity and humor. 'Queer as Folk,' by contrast, seems to go out of its way to pit gay and straight characters against each other, offering up a steady stream of stories that deal with anti-gay discrimination." According to Frutkin, "Past episodes [of "Sex and the City"] have featured Carrie dating a bisexual and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) befriending a group of 'power lesbians.'" "Earlier this season," he notes, "Samantha (Kim Cattrall) found romance in the arms of another woman (Sonia Braga)." And "next week the women go dancing at a gay nightclub." |
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