Queer as Folk (U.S.)
Irritation and Separation
TV Flash files “Irritation and Separation” as hour 68 of 83 in the TV Flash guide — Queer as Folk (U.S.) (2000–2005) on Showtime, season 4, episode 12, aired 2004-07-04, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E12: listed hour 68 of 83 in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide, hour 12 of 14 in season 4. It aired 2004-07-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Gay or Straight? That's the Question” (S04E11). Next is “Proposal of Two Kinds” (S04E13).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Irritation and Separation sit in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide?
S04E12 is listed hour 68 of 83 — hour 12 of 14 in season 4, season 4 episode 12.
When did Queer as Folk (U.S.) S04E12 air?
Irritation and Separation aired 2004-07-04 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need the U.K. Queer as Folk first?
Helpful, not required. The Showtime series Americanizes Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic with its own five-season life.
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Why this series still plays
Showtime Americanized Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic: club nights, activism, parenting, and sex basic cable still wouldn't air. Queer as Folk is early-2000s identity television that refused to whisper — still a landmark whenever LGBTQ series get a history lesson.
The first useful permission is volume: friends and lovers in a Pittsburgh gay community dealing with sex, politics, parenting, and the club scene — unapologetic for its time on U.S. television. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman's Showtime series (2000–2005) Americanized Russell T Davies's U.K. dare into a multi-season community epic. Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Peter Paige, Scott Lowell, and Michelle Clunie hold a circle that basic cable still would not have aired. Club nights, activism, explicit firsts as…
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- Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor
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- Peter Paige as Emmett Honeycutt
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- Scott Lowell as Ted Schmidt
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- Michelle Clunie as Melanie Marcus
Michelle Clunie’s Melanie Marcus walked Queer as Folk’s Pittsburgh like Showtime would not whisper — early-2000s identity television, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still would not air. Russell T Davies’s dare,…