Netflix’s habit of creating heterosexual dating shows based on lesbian cultural practices is storied and deep, and nobody is more thrilled than we are that they are finally embracing the true audience for over-dramatic, over-emotional, interconnected, commitment-chasing dating shows with the launch of The Ultimatum: Queer Love. Featuring a cast of queer couples — all lesbian or bisexual women or non-binary people — and debuting May 24th, we simply cannot wait to feast our eyes upon this inevitable drama! They’re giving Ultimatum to the lesbians bless us everyone!
The Ultimatum: Queer Love Trailer
Who Is Hosting and Who’s in the Cast of ”The Ultimatum: Queer Love”?
Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
The show is hosted by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, an actress best known for her roles in Are You Afraid of the Dark, Freaks and Geeks, and Reba. She is married to basketball player Nick Swisher. She is not gay and, according to Wikipedia, she is a “devout Catholic.” It is very confusing why she is the host of this program. One could argue it makes absolutely no sense at all.
The participants in The Ultimatum: Queer Love are Vanessa Papa, Aussie Chau, Mildred Woody, Yoly Rojas, Mal Wright, Raelyn Cheung-Sutton, Tiff Der, Xander Boger, Lexi Goldberg and Sam Mark.
What is “The Ultimatum”?
Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
The first season of The Ultimatum followed a handful of humans in their very early twenties who’d been dating their partners for 1-2 years and were allegedly ready to issue their partners astounding ultimatums: marry me or it’s over!!!!! To test the strength of their love, members of each couple were allowed to date other people participating in this experiment and then they all came back together to ask “where do we go from here?”
This is a great format for the queer community because we love to make premature commitments as prematurely as possible. Also as a people we tend to be dramatic, hot and unhinged, and that is reality television gold!
Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
The Ultimatum: Queer Love trailer was initially supposed to debut at the end of tonight’s also hotly anticipated LIVE Love is Blind reunion that Netflix had us OUT HERE WAITING FOR LIKE A BUNCH OF FOOLS but as anybody who is intimately familiar with the Netflix error screen can tell you, that is not how it went down.
Anyhow, luckily they still got this trailer up so that’s one point for Netflix on Sunday April 16th, although I am unclear if they will ever rebound from the ten million points they lost for the Love is Blind Reunion debacle.
When is The Ultimatum: Queer Love Coming Out?
Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
May 24th only on Netflix! The episodes will be released as follows:
-
Week 1(Wednesday, May 24th): Episodes 1-4
-
Week 2 (Wednesday, May 31st): Episodes 5-8
-
Week 3 (Wednesday, June 7th): Episodes 9-10
I have been WAITING for this but am I the only one wondering why they didn’t get a queer host?!?
My thoughts exactly, lol. My only comment when the host appeared was, “Now why is she in it?”
who is the host? i didn’t recognize her so i thought maybe she was gay
great news i figured this out for myself and am completely baffled
Yeah JoAnna Garcia Swisher is not apart of this community. She does have a history with Netflix which is probably they hired her. She is on of those Netflix shows that does really well with the white conservative mom crowd which makes this choice doubly weird.
if she doesn’t come out as bisexual during this show i am going to be upset
They probably couldn’t find a queer host who would work cheap.
Why did I not get a sign up sheet for this?
There’s no drama like dyke drama, and I can’t wait for this to get dirty. It’s strange that Netflix went with a straight Catholic for a host, but they often seem to have trouble finding qualified people. Indiablogtoday.com
It really should be the Q-Word, it was a mistake to reclaim that slur in the 1990s.
It was reclaimed in the late 60s and 70s.
This is going to be so messy and I’m so excited for it, no drama like dyke drama! Although the choice of a straight catholic host is a bit odd, netflix does seem to struggle with good host choices.
FINALLY. Also, I’m convinced my ex is actually Voldemort, so I’m right there with you, sis.
They take away scripted context with lesbians for this. :(
Please do a recap pod, Riese!!!
Host aside, I’m excited to learn about this and will be watching!!
Will I watch this? Yes! Will I spend the whole time feeling aghast about how this bunch of supposed queers is presumably about to act like possessive and heteronormative straight people? Also yes! Will I keep praying for a queer reality tv show that lets queer people do queer things together a la the 5some on AYTO season 8? You betcha.