What I can say, with the utmost love, is that this series feels like Brooklyn. It feels like the Brooklyn that raised me and protected me as a young woman. It feels like Sisterhood. It’s funny and smart and bright and challenging.
It is not a small thing for Y&R to cast Mariah’s love for Tessa in the same mold as one of the show’s great supercouples, Nick and Sharon. It’s a normalizing force for a conservative audience that might not view a same-sex story that way.
Karolina finds herself at a horrible frat party, and something magical happens. She sees two women making out on the dance floor. She pauses, stares, transfixed. The scene captures that moment of knowing and not knowing something all at once.
As cis white men are forced out of Hollywood to face repercussions for their actions, this could become an important moment for traditionally marginalized voices to tell stories in ways we’ve never been allowed to before.
The pocket chain was just the beginning.
What self-respecting lesbian turns down a chance to sit in the same room as Rachel Maddow or Lana Winters?
Watching this show, I was transported to so many conversations with so many men, times when for any number of reasons I knew I couldn’t say “I don’t want to talk about this” and instead had to rely on a combination of playing dumb and playing up ladylike sensibilities, because I knew those would be taken more seriously than my agency as a person.
The conversation of multi-dimensional black thought, and questions of isolation or not feeling “black enough”, is one that a lot black people are familiar with. It’s smart and nuanced. It’s also a conversation that fundamentally could not be filtered through a white lens. It could not exist on a television show that wasn’t like this.
You laugh and cry and swoon and be bewildered that you can watch this show for free on social media.
Despite taking place 250 years ago, Hulu’s Harlots manages to depict indoor-market sex work more authentically than any show or movie I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot!) — queer stuff very much included.
Merry Jane’s new series “Queens of the Stoned Age” brings us all things cannabis from an all-female cast. But which fires will it stoke?
The lesbian character I tuned in for didn’t make herself lightly known until the show’s final season, but at that point I didn’t even care — I was already enthralled by this smart, progressive fascinating show about the rise of personal computing and the internet with two smart, progressive, fascinating female characters at the helm of it all.
What exactly is Seth MacFarlane’s problem with trans people?
Transparent isn’t a show about any single person. It’s a show about family. That’s what it’s always been and when it focuses on that, it’s at its absolute best.
Star knows that some women have to make impossible choices, that they hustle to survive. I don’t remember the last time I saw a show on network television that embraced this brand of dark, unrelenting Girl Power.
The second season of “Top of the Lake” is on Hulu and if you like dark detective stories, can stomach a lot of misogyny and wanna see Nicole Kidman play gay again… you might wanna check it out.
It’s whimsical and fresh and progressive and tender in parts and hopeful in other parts and compelling throughout.
Thus, much like actual life, Trump’s presence in the show casts a dark shadow over an otherwise viable existence AND ALSO OVER LESBIANS.
Is Great British Bake Off even Great British Bake Off without Mary, Sue, and Mel? (No. Not really.)
CBS already canceled Doubt, but the full first season is airing this summer and it’s breaking major ground for trans representation.