Jambie67

Crap of the highest order. This "series" has no discernible plot. It's just a bunch of characters in scenes - mostly taking advantage of the fact that one can say "fuck" on the Internet. The acting is weak, the music is clawing, and the script is just dreadful. Also? the sex scenes are about as UNsexy as possible. Decent camera work does not save this unholy mess. It DOES carry some value in the way of comedy. One of the characters has just returned from a missionary job where she administered the AIDS vaccine in Africa. Holy moly - they created an AIDS vaccine and forgot to tell us! Who's watching this junk and enjoying it?

This show plays to the lowest common denominator. Pretty much every punchline is a predictable stereotype about gays and lesbians. I'm not sure who told Amenda Bearse that a mullet, in and of itself, is high comedy. Or that a really queenie guy fawning over Madonna constitutes a comedy sketch, but the woman needs a reality check. THis is junk, pure and simple. Believe it or not, gay people like me find all sorts of things funny and interesting and witty...it doesn't always have to be about homosexuality or, well, *sexuality*, at all. How about a show with talented, funny, smart performers? Just being gay is not enough to make someone entertaining.

This is the best doco I've seen in years. I know there was controversy surrounding it when it was released, but I don't understand why. The film-maker has managed to paint a 3-dimensional portrait of each and every jumper whose last moments he captured. Interviews with friends and relatives send home the message that no one exists in a vacuum: suicide is not just something a person can do, because it touches on the lives of everyone around them. No one is just a guy who's chosen to jump off abridge: he's a brother, a friend, a son, a lover, a neighbor, etc. It is interesting, too, to hear family and friends of those who chose to jump talking about how they knew something bad would happen, or that suicide had been talked about for a long time. Itsends home the message that, at the end of the day, none of us has the power to stop someone from dying, if dyingis what they set out to do.We may be able to delay it, but we can't stop it.