All Things Just Keep Getting Worse: Netflix Is Rebooting Queer Eye For the Straight Guy
LatestEntertainment Weekly reports Tuesday that the hit early-aughts TV show Queer Eye For the Straight Guy is being rebooted by—who else?—Netflix. In case you don’t remember, the show was about five sassy queens who raided the homes and closets of dirty bros in an attempt to make them, like, cook better, dress better, shave better, and decorate better.
Like Will and Grace before it, the show was less about inclusive television than it was about creating the opportunity for straight people without gay friends to convince themselves that they’re tolerant as long as the gay person is a flaming queen who makes them laugh and never ever mentions how much he loves dick. And though I can (for the most part) look back on the show’s original run and think, “I suppose visibility is always good thing,” it’s going to be much more difficult to forgive this reboot. Why are we, in 2017, dusting off an artifact from the pre-marriage equality era in which queer people were nothing but arbiters of style advice for straights and putting it back on television?