Results for: work in progress
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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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“Steven Universe: End of an Era” Reveals How Hard Rebecca Sugar Fought for Our Queer Gem Wedding
“But if Steven Universe gets a gay wedding, then every show is going to want a gay wedding!” “‘YES!’ I said. ‘GOOD! WHY NOT???'”
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“Euphoria” Finally Gives Jules Agency In A Special Episode Co-Written By Hunter Schafer
All I’ve wanted since Euphoria began was for Sam Levinson to write with people who actually have the characters’ perspectives — this episode shows why.
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HBO Max’s “Equal” Celebrates the Deviants of Pre-Stonewall LGBT Activism
In HBO Max’s LGBTQ documentary “Equal”; Samira Wiley, Jamie Clayton, Isis King, Shannon Purser, Heather Matarazzo, Theo Germaine and more embody key historical figures in the pre-Stonewall fight for LGBTQ rights and visibility.
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“The Bold Type” Makes a Last-Minute Finale Change, But Kat’s Storyline Is Still a Huge Mess
“Instead of feeling like an affirmation for my disdain for Kat and Eva’s relationship, it feels like The Bold Type is re-emphasizing one of the things that makes the Kat/Eva storyline problematic: diminishing the show’s lead black character to bolster the bonafides of its white ones.”
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“Homecoming” Is a Homo-Coming, but It’s Not the Star Vehicle Janelle Monáe Deserved
I wanted “Homecoming” to be Janelle Monáe’s star vehicle and for her search to be as compelling as Julia Roberts’ during the first season, but sadly — it simply wasn’t.
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“Motherland: Fort Salem” Is Queer and Witchy and Full of Surprises
Freeforms’s new alternate-universe elite witchy fighters series didn’t waste any time getting gay, gay, gay.
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“The Chi” Season Three: Easy on the Eyes as a Queer Woman, Hard on the Heart as a Black Woman
With a total of five lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans Black women characters in the main cast, Lena Waithe’s “The Chi” certainly made history this summer. But did making “The Chi” gayer turn it into a better show?
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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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“Mindhunter” Makes Murder Boring, But Its Lesbian Love Story Is One for the Ages
While Mindhunter’s criminal storylines are more suited for people just dabbling in true crime for the first time, rehashing old stories us veterans have heard time and time again, its queer storyline was something a little more unique, beautifully portrayed by two powerhouse actresses.
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“One Day at a Time” Is Back When We Need it Most
To have this show on the air at this moment — even if Netflix had renewed the show, it likely would have debuted in January — it just felt fated. We needed this show at this moment and I was so grateful for it.
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“One Day at a Time” Remains a Balm to Our Weary Hearts, We’re so Sad Season 4 Is Ending Early
“Each day seems to bring more bad news so it’s been such a tremendous relief to have this show every week to genuinely make me laugh. It has been the perfect show for this not-so-perfect moment.”
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Netflix’s “Hollywood” is a Land of Dreams — But Does It Earn the Fantasy?
“There’s a once-in-century virus eating away at the fabric of everything we know about how to live, just let the gays kiss for once! Let women of color win the fucking Oscar!” Drew, Riese and Carmen binged Ryan Murphy’s newest Netflix release, and they can’t wait to talk about it.
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“She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” Season Two Is Even More Hopeful (and Gay)
The Gay Agenda returns!
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz-Directed #MeToo Episode Wallops the Patriarchy, Hilariously
When you have legitimately diverse cast and a writers room willing to evolve with the cultural conversation, you get episodes like this that ask hard questions and don’t shy away from broken penis jokes.
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Shrill Celebrates Body Positivity; If Only It Celebrated Its Black Lesbian Character, Too
Aidy Bryant’s Annie is young, pretty and fat. Her best friend Fran is also fat – and a British black lesbian. And if you’re a fat babe, you’ll find things to both like and cringe about in this show.
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“Pose” and “Tales of the City” Remember the AIDS Epidemic in Very Different Ways
The question becomes, are the generational differences portrayed in Tales of the City actually generational differences? Is the argument actually between baby boomers and millennials, gen x-ers and gen z-ers? Or have we simply widened the conversation to include, or begin to include, voices that were already there?
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I Love “Euphoria” and I Hate It
We can debate the actual quality of Euphoria, but what’s undeniable is Sam Levinson is writing about people most of the film and television world has ignored. After two failed movies focusing on cis white people and one mediocre HBO movie about an old cis white guy, Levinson discovered what Hollywood at large still hasn’t.
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Kate Moennig Arrives on “grown-ish” to Stop the Next Generation of Shanes
“Are you out here Janelle Monae-ing in these streets?” is a real thing a real character said out loud on grown-ish last night.
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“Good Trouble” Is a Worthy (and Gay) Successor to “The Fosters”
Stef and Lena may not show up until episode five, but their spirit is everywhere in The Fosters’ spin-off.