Results for: queer parenting
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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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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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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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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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‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Has a Goth Lesbian Butcher, Gay Ghosts, and a Cheryl Dunye-Directed Episode
I may be a vegetarian, but I want more of this goth lesbian butcher!
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Attention Cocktail Queers! Netflix’s New Mixology Competition Series “Drink Masters” Is the Show for Us
Mixology entails a lot more than just drink-mixing. There’s science, gastronomy, artistry, and even storytelling involved here.
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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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“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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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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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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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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Netflix’s “Arcane” Is Full of Queer Badasses and Emotional Gut Punches
Arcane was surprisingly deep, surprisingly stunning, surprisingly surprising, surprisingly gay.
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It’s Time to Talk about It, “Never Have I Ever” Has a Race Problem
Fabiola’s story taps into a real dynamic in queer communities, but “Never Have I Ever” couldn’t bring itself to actually identify the problem for what it truly is: racism.
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“It’s Just a Phase” — Bisexual and Ex-Orthodox Erasure in Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life
We all — Ex-Orthodox, Orthodox, and bisexual — deserve better from Netflix than the perpetuation of misconceptions about our identities.
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“Feel Good” Season Two Confronts Trauma and Finds Messy Queer Romance
While Feel Good season two is certainly not lacking in laugh-out-loud moments or Mae Martin’s endless charm, it’s also a very heavy experience.
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Netflix’s “Teenage Bounty Hunters” Is a Godsend of a Queer Romp
It’s all so well done, and between the intense female friendship conversation and a few other things I can’t mention without giving too much away, I felt like I was seeing aspects of my queer life I don’t usually get to see on screen.
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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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Netflix’s “The Baby-Sitters Club” Invites You to Say Hello to Your Friends All Over Again
Netflix’s BSC adaptation is, to my surprise and delight, a faithful recreation of Stoneybrook and its resident squad of tween entrepreneurs with essential 2020 updates to Ann M. Martin’s easter candy-colored world.
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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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Netflix’s “Get Even” Is “Foxfire” Meets “Pretty Little Liars,” But More Mediocre and Slightly Less Gay
Is ‘Get Even’ a good show with a robust queer storyline? It is not. Did I watch the entire thing in two days anyhow? I sure did!!!! Should you do the same?? Probably!