It's hard to understand how the writing of this show has gone downhill so far. I'm struggling to get through this season. The much much too obvious subtext of the AIDS epidemic with a mixed message of the vilification of hedonism in homo-eroticism & subsequent glorification and use of its sexual powers to get you to keep paying attention. The season explores trauma, buts it's much too heavy and basic for the usual pop & smarter series. There is too little actually going on on the surface to excuse or cleverly hide the subtext, instead it plays like a bad after school special reenactment series... detached from itself and telling a personal experience in a non-personal way. It's aimless except to educate and depress. This show used to enjoy its own horror and now it just feels aggressively begging for your attention, yet it doesn't deserve it.
Review of Requiem 1981/1987: Part 1
