Results for: love is a lie
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Netflix’s The One: A Lesbian Love Triangle Gets Lost in a Murder Mystery
Is love a lie or the ultimate truth? The One balks at exploring that fascinating question and cops out with a cliched murder storyline.
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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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The Sandman’s Queer Stories Are Sweet Dreams, Beautiful Nightmares
The Sandman’s queer characters don’t all have happy endings, but they are plentiful, and both the dreams and nightmares are a fun ride.
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Netflix’s Latest Teen Drama “Everything Now” Provides Very Queer and Honest Depiction of Anorexia
Everything Now finds an impressive balance: It doesn’t romanticize eating disorders, of course, but it also doesn’t sensationalize them.
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Netflix’s Beef Is Very Stressful — It’s Also an Incredible Work of Art
Beef grapples with a lot of the same themes of sex, power, wealth, perception, and deception as the popular series White Lotus but does so with a lot more nuance — especially in its explorations of race — and a lot more creative ambition.
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First Kill Is a Lesbian Teen Vampire Story About First Loves, First Times (and Hot Moms)
Do you know how much I would have loved to see horny teen lesbians on TV when I was a horny teen lesbian?
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Very Queer New Series “Heartbreak High” Is an Excellent Entry Into the Friendship Breakup Canon
Heartbreak High features a queer nonbinary character, a queer autistic character, an asexual character, and so much more — but it never feels like it’s just checking boxes with its characters or storytelling.
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“Resident Evil” Has a Lesbian CEO to Die For
Evelyn Marcus is a sociopathic CEO first, a lesbian second. And that’s the kind of queer villain we deserve.
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“Sex Education” Continues to Grow In a Masterful Third Season
Sex Education keeps getting better because it approaches storytelling the way it teaches us to approach sex — with curiosity, excitement, and a willingness to learn.
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Atypical’s Casey and Izzie Join The Magical Unicorn Club of Queer Happy Endings
Stories are the things that make us human, and real gay people still need to see fictional gay people finding happy endings to know happy endings are possible for them too.
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If There Was Better Queer Latine Storytelling this Year Than “Gentefied,” I Don’t Know Her
In its second season, Gentefied soars. It’s nearly unfathomable how good it is now — how it matured without losing its heart, how it never takes an easy out or answer.
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Élite Season 4 Finally Delivers a Sapphic Storyline
Élite’s 4th season devotes half its romantic storylines to the gays: and this time, that means lesbian content too!
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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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“Tiny Pretty Things” Review: I Love and Hate This Netflix Ballet Show
Fun and frustrating, derivative and surprising, Netflix’s new ballet show Tiny Pretty Things is undone by its paradoxes.
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As a Queer South Asian, “Never Have I Ever” Been So Let Down
The reason I didn’t like “Never Have I Ever” wasn’t because I didn’t feel seen. It’s because Mindy Kaling and I are clearly looking at the same world, but Kaling is expecting me to overlook all of its pain.
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Legend of Korra: A Flawed Show for A Flawed World
In many ways Legend of Korra is more timely than ever because it forces us to examine our hero worship and the notion that one person will save us from destruction or that the simple removal of one villain will solve all of our problems.
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Season 2 of “Dead to Me” Is Flirting With You Via Natalie Morales
Natalie Morales swaggers into Season 2 of Dead to Me to queer things up for the better.
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Final Season Gives The Gays Everything They Want
“Even after all the growth and apologies, all the blushing and teasing, all the conversations about what they both want, I couldn’t let myself believe it. I was so afraid to be let down. But holy shit y’all, THEY DID IT.”
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“Trinkets” Is a Queer Teen Drama That Will Steal Your Heart (Literally. They’re Shoplifters.)
All but one of the episodes were written by women. All but two were directed by women as well.
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“She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” Season Two Is Even More Hopeful (and Gay)
The Gay Agenda returns!