partly because I've not heard a single positive review of it
Really? I guess we've been looking in different places. Well, here's one for you. :)
I thought it was extremely well done and made a bloody good job of explaining an oft-misunderstood subject to a general audience. JB is extremely popular over here, as an actor and a presenter/judge, and was an excellent choice for this as he is extremely honest and comes across as such. No, there's not much in there about anything other than gay men but, you know, the clue is in the title, where the "Me" is a gay man and, as a female bisexual, that didn't bother me for a moment. It's an hour about JB looking for his answers regarding something he considers a defining part of him, not a series about sexuality in general, nice as that might have been (the other programmes involved an athlete asking what made him particularly fast, and a violinist asking what made her musical).
So, yes, it is a good programme that does what it sets out to do. It may not do what some other people might have wanted it to do but, frankly, that's more their issue than the showmakers'. Its target audience wasn't those with an existing interest so much as a general audience who might not dream of watching anything specifically about the science of "gay stuff" but who like JB (the difference between BBC2, which would have been more scientific, and BBC1, where this was shown, which is more populist). Hopefully it educated a few people and made them look at the world a little differently. No show can be all things to everyone but this one covered its remit pretty well, I thought. Why not watch it and decide for yourself? :)
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Really? I guess we've been looking in different places. Well, here's one for you. :)
I thought it was extremely well done and made a bloody good job of explaining an oft-misunderstood subject to a general audience. JB is extremely popular over here, as an actor and a presenter/judge, and was an excellent choice for this as he is extremely honest and comes across as such. No, there's not much in there about anything other than gay men but, you know, the clue is in the title, where the "Me" is a gay man and, as a female bisexual, that didn't bother me for a moment. It's an hour about JB looking for his answers regarding something he considers a defining part of him, not a series about sexuality in general, nice as that might have been (the other programmes involved an athlete asking what made him particularly fast, and a violinist asking what made her musical).
So, yes, it is a good programme that does what it sets out to do. It may not do what some other people might have wanted it to do but, frankly, that's more their issue than the showmakers'. Its target audience wasn't those with an existing interest so much as a general audience who might not dream of watching anything specifically about the science of "gay stuff" but who like JB (the difference between BBC2, which would have been more scientific, and BBC1, where this was shown, which is more populist). Hopefully it educated a few people and made them look at the world a little differently. No show can be all things to everyone but this one covered its remit pretty well, I thought. Why not watch it and decide for yourself? :)