Here We Go Again — Farscape Is Queer?

On an article mislabeling Farscape and the best thing the author said in the article.

Some say that any publicity is good publicity. There’s a point in that. Any mention of Farscape is welcome because the show deserves MUCH more publicity than it gets, but how much does misrepresentation really help? Hey, we all get something different out of Farscape and that’s the beauty of it, but my beef is with the corporate media filter that relegates Farscape to a side show attraction.

Frelling memes

The “Farscape is queer as fuck” meme has reared its head again, this time in an article by Clint Worthington appearing in Nerdist. This meme was last notably seen in a March 2019 Vice article to which I responded here. The Vice writer, Danielle Riendeau, mostly focused on how feminist Farscape was (an excellent topic) but wrote her opinion that Farscape was notably “queer.” Vice mostly focused on the latter.

Worthington’s Nerdist article fixates on his opinion that Farscape is “one of the queerest, kinkiest, most overtly pansexual TV series to hit the airwaves in the 1990s.” Other than a few general praises, Worthington’s mostly talks about leather outfits and the single-digit number of times non-heterosexuality was mentioned in Farscape. Worthington ecstatically declares, “everyone on the show donned tight, revealing leather outfits. These ensembles were one metal buckle shy of outright fetish gear.”