[2] One of the show's regular settings was the Hot Spot, a café decorated with the work of real Toronto-area artists whose pieces could be purchased from the show's website, and another was Bang, a nightclub at which a real Toronto-area musician or band would perform a song on each Friday night episode.
The show continued to air for some further time in repeats on Omni Television, and was later rebroadcast nationally on Super Channel and FX.
Henrietta Walmark of The Globe and Mail wrote that "A little bit Queer as Folk, a little bit Sex and the City, Metropia delivers a whole lot of gorgeous characters making for a whole lot of hotness and plenty of juicy plot threads.
The language can be raw and the hookups are frequent, but there's also sweetness and a natural ambiance among the large ensemble cast.
[6] Conversely, Joel Rubinoff of the Waterloo Region Record called it one of the worst new shows of the year, claiming that it was "so inept it could set race relations back an entire century".