Do you ever feel like a show was made just for you using all your favorite media keywords? That’s how I felt when I first heard about Netflix’s The Body. I saw Catholic school, dancers, ritual-gone-wrong, horror and I was beyond sold.
And in case those words and phrases didn’t make it obvious: The story is also sapphic. Writer and creator Quinn Shephard (who acted in movies like The Miseducation of Cameron Post and wrote/directed episodes of Under the Bridge) started writing the show the year she came out. She says: “It’s satirizing some of the trauma of growing up queer and repressed and the confusion around that.”
A lot of the main cast of girls are relative newcomers on the scene (aka they don’t have Wikipedia “personal life” pages yet) so I’m not sure who among them are queer, but the show WILL feature lesbian reality star Gabby Windey in a recurring role as a coach. Also, almost all of the episodes have women listed as writers.
The show looks freaky and weird in all the best ways, and I can’t wait. I hope it’s just as fun as shows like Yellowjackets and even Mike Flanagan’s Carrie. May the teens-getting-into-supernatural-mischief genre never die.
The series drops next month and you can watch the full official trailer right now!
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+ The teaser trailer and some first-look images have dropped for the fourth and final season of Yellowjackets
+ The Hunting Wives was renewed for a third season before the second even drops because we, as a people, crave chaos
+ Olivia Rodrigo is releasing a remix collab with Chappell Roan with an accompanying music video
+ Bisexual actress Esmé Creed-Miles already felt like Daisy Edgar-Jones was family before playing her sister in Sense and Sensibility
+ Anna Pigeon was renewed for a second season, which will hopefully feature more of the local lesbians AND Canadian darlings Melanie Scrofano and Charlotte Sullivan
+ Season 2 of Haunted Hotel featured Natalie Morales as a human pretending to be a ghost, plus a lesbian witch and her gal pal (plus was overall delightful)
+ The new Baywatch series will feature Shay Mitchell and a cameo by Megan Thee Stallion
+ Original 9-1-1 returns this week with lesbian paramedic Hen and also a volcano for some reason
+ 9-1-1: Nashville ALSO returns this week with THEIR lesbian paramedic Roxie and also murder hornets for some reason
+ Raven-Symoné will co-host The View for a two-day stint this week to celebrate its 30th season
+ People are loving Josie Totah’s performance in Mike Flanagan’s Carrie
+ Speaking of Carrie, I did watch, love, and write about the Mike Flanagan adaptation; it’s not as gay as The Hauntings, but it has queer fingerprints all over it
