Results for: straight people watch
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Will ‘Baby Reindeer’ Welcome a New Era of Complex Television?
We cannot fight stigmas around transness, queerness, and surviving abuse by reducing the complexities of life into rules and checklists.
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Throughout Its Four Seasons, “Sex Education” Showed Us a Better Way
Worse sex education and less adolescent autonomy has consequences — consequences no show can overcome. It’s admirable to watch this one try.
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Mae Martin’s “Sap” Is a Comedic Balm for a Difficult World
What I was feeling was genuine familiarity. What I was feeling all this time was seen.
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“Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda” Brings Brilliant Trans Comics to the Famously Transphobic Netflix
Give jobs to trans comics not because it’ll end the protests at your executive offices but because they’re really fucking funny and good at what they do.
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“Girls5eva” Season Three Is Gay and on a Mission
On the new season of Girls5Eva, Gloria is determined to sleep with every type of girl from “pre-Friends Courtney Cox” to “cigar mommis.”
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“Dead to Me” Season 3 Is a Bittersweet Goodbye
The third and final season of Dead To Me is an ode to the platonic love between a queer woman and her straight best friend.
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Survival of the Thickest Celebrates Big Titties and Freckles, but Misses the Thread on Queerness
Fat Black girls are worthy of the care, affection, warmth and humor that come with being the heroine of our own love stories.
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Netflix’s “Ladies First” Recenters the Women of Hip-Hop in Their Complex Grit, Beauty, and Honesty
Ladies First reinstates Black women as the founders, experts, contributors who quite literally built hip-hop that they are.
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Netflix’s “Heartstopper” Includes a Trans Girl in Its Sweet Coming-of-Age Tale
It’s nice that trans people are included in this saccharine world at a time when many are trying keep us excluded.
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“The Circle” Is Here With Bisexual Chaos — and Spice Girls!
I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I knew next to nothing about the Spice Girls before this season of The Circle, but I can now confidently say that I would die for Mel B.
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Hannah Gadsby’s New Comedy Special Is a Hilarious, Feel Good Way To Spend an Hour
I love their more serious work, but I hope this new mix of levity is here to stay as well.
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“Elite” Season 6 Is a Mess — and Not the Fun Kind
Season six brutally buries a gay, becomes reductive in its trans storytelling, and generally misses the mark.
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I Loved “Archive 81” — Then I Found Out Melody Got “Straightwashed”
By erasing Melody’s queerness, Archive 81 gains nothing and loses a lot.
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Never Have I Ever’s Queer South Asian Representation Is a Cop Out
The writers seem more interested in giving fans the pairing they wanted to see after season two rather than developing Aneesa as a nuanced character in her own right.
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Is Marriage or Mortgage a Reality Show About Crime Girlfriends or What?!
This business model is very f*cked up and sometimes it even works! Nichole and Sarah are also clearly constantly trying to slyly top one another.
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Ginny & Georgia’s Lesbian Gets a Refreshingly Typical Teen Dating Story
Ginny & Georgia has a very typical teenage dating story but made it queer, just for us.
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“Ratched” Review: Part Murder Mommi Delight, Part Complicated Horror Show
Ratched stabs, cuts, bludgeons, and mutilates what was past. The show is brutal, but provides relief for its queer women. Unfortunately, its characters of color and disabled characters are not granted the same care.
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Netflix’s “Feel Good” Insists Deeply Flawed Queer People Are Worthy of Love
How do two queer people still figuring out their sexualities, their genders, their shames, their traumas, their pasts, their futures, their vastly different presents make a relationship work?
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“Love Is Blind” Is Basically a Lesbian Reality Show for Straight People — and I Can’t Get Enough of It
This show forces straights to do what lesbians do all the time — talk about their deepest fears and feelings, endlessly.
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Netflix’s “Hollywood” is a Land of Dreams — But Does It Earn the Fantasy?
“There’s a once-in-century virus eating away at the fabric of everything we know about how to live, just let the gays kiss for once! Let women of color win the fucking Oscar!” Drew, Riese and Carmen binged Ryan Murphy’s newest Netflix release, and they can’t wait to talk about it.