Results for: work in progress
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“Work in Progress” Season Two Reaffirms That Mentally Ill Queer Dykes Are Enough
If the first season was a spiral, the second seems to be about the mundanity of doing okay. And like the first season, its humor, its pathos, its power is found in its casual, low-key specificity.
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“Work in Progress” Is Too Much and So Am I
Throughout its eight episodes Work in Progress showed the value in being there for people even when it’s hard – and the importance of knowing when to walk away.
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“Work in Progress” Is a Hilarious Triumph of Specificity
Allowing someone as funny and weird as McEnany to make a show that opens itself up to all the facets of herself is such a gift to us all.
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How an Angry Cat, a Misanthropic Horse, and a Depressed Dyke are Giving Us Permission to Leave the People Who Hurt Us
According to TV, good people don’t give up on each other. BoJack Horseman, Work in Progress, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power are challenging that narrative.
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Gay Historical Fiction Series “Fellow Travelers” Flattens American Tragedies and Wrongdoings
Technically, the premise of Fellow Travelers has all the makings of what could have become a beloved piece of queer media.
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“True Detective: Night Country” Is a Mediocre Network Procedural Masquerading As Prestige TV
It’s not just that these narratives are harmful. It’s that they’re boring.
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‘Hacks’ Is Sooooo Back and Better Than Ever
Exes — I mean, ex- boss and employee — Deborah and Ava are back in another brilliant season.
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Netflix’s New Reality Competition Series “Surviving Paradise” Worked For Me — Eventually
The one thing that kept me hooked was the rivalry between nonbinary contestant Tabitha Sloane — the one openly queer contestant on the show — and Lellies Santiago.
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“Heartstopper” Season 2 Is Gayer and More Wholesome Than Ever
Gay grown-ups! More trans characters! One our faves comes out as asexual! Get ready to have your own personal heart wrapped up in a warm hug!
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“Sort Of” Season 2 Grapples With the Many Complications of Love
One of the things I love about season one of Sort Of is how it shows a variety of relationships and the significance they all have on Sabi’s life without feeling the need to romanticize every one.
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“Poker Face” Is a Delightfully Absurdist Murder Show With the Best Guest Stars
Natasha Lyonne stars as Charlie, a woman on the run who has an innate ability to know when someone’s lying, which comes in handy when she’s called upon to solve a string of cross-country murders.
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“Physical: 100” Proves There’s No One Way To Be an Athlete
Physical: 100 also disrupts the American idea of competition and what it means to be a good competitor.
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Kevin Can F**k Himself Season 2 Is Even Gayer and More Subversive
Allison and Patty’s relationship deepens as the second season progresses; the more Allison allows herself to trust and rely on Patty, the less of a hold Kevin has on her.
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“Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” Can’t Go Both Ways
Rise of the Pink Ladies wants the privilege of deciding when and how questions of race matter, but that’s not how it works — not on a fictional television show where teenagers sing on cafeteria tables for fun, and not in life.
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How “Hightown” Season 2 Failed Jackie Quiñones
There are plenty of people out there still rooting for Jackie Quiñones; it’d be nice if it felt like the ones crafting her story were among them.
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“Critical Role” Campaign 3 is Gayer Than Ever
Nic and Valerie discuss how Imogen and Laudna finally kissed, and all the other gay goings-on of Critical Role’s third campaign.
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Shay Mitchell Lives Her Best Queer Life In “Dollface” Season 2
Over the course of the season, Stella and Liv get closer as they work on the bar, smashing walls then smashing — well, each other.
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Hulu’s Dopesick Puts a Lesbian Coal Miner at the Heart Of Its Opioid Crisis Miniseries, But Also The Wigs Are Really Bad
Hulu’s “Dopesick” is a thorough and compassionate portrait of the opioid epidemic and its lesbian storyline is its most effective. Also though everybody wore really bad wigs, so.
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“Four More Shots Please” Season Two Was a Betrayal
Four More Shots Please wants to broach serious issues relating to gender and sexuality but puts in no work to actually address them in any kind of meaningful way and opts for superficial declarations of feminism, instead.
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Peacock’s “Saved By The Bell” Reboot Is a Queer and Loving Skewering of the Original Series
“Does this place ever stop being weird?!?”