Over time,Queersresonates with increasing force and by the end, the series feels unsettlingly intimate.
IndeedQueersis more artful than youd probably expect of whats essentially filmed theater.
Fortunately and, given the level of talent involved, rather expectedly Queersexcels in that regard.

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But it doesnt take a maudlin approach to depicting history either.
Characters emerge vibrantly, funny and sexy and quick to convey excitement.
For the most part, of course, theyre confined to their time period.
This is precisely why theQueersviewing experience turns near-cathartic when Alan Cumming arrives, playing a groom-to-be in the present-day.