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“The Girls on the Bus” Doesn’t Get My Vote Despite Its All-Star Cast

If The Girls on the Bus was a workplace drama featuring these four characters — played by these four engaging actresses — then I’d tell you, without reservation, to watch it. But its efforts to showcase journalism and the political landscape fall flat.

Natalie March 14, 2024 4 Comments
Girls5Eva season three: Paula Pell sings into a microphone with an arm in the air against a pink and yellow background.
TV Reviews

“Girls5eva” Season Three Is Gay and on a Mission

On the new season of Girls5Eva, Gloria is determined to sleep with every type of girl from “pre-Friends Courtney Cox” to “cigar mommis.”

Valerie Anne March 14, 2024 2 Comments
Elise Bauman in a tank top looks up at a woman.
TV Reviews

Elise Bauman on CBC’s ‘One More Time’ Should Be Your New Obsession

It’s so exciting to see a performer with Bauman’s comedic skills get a character that allows her to really play.

Riese March 13, 2024
Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy: Klak kissing a girl in a dip
TV Reviews

“The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy” Is Gayer “Grey’s Anatomy” in Space

Keke Palmer plays a queer, anxious surgeon and Stephanie Hsu plays her rule-breaking best friend on this animated Grey’s Anatomy in space.

Valerie Anne February 22, 2024 3 Comments
How to Fail as a Popstar: Vivek Shraya sits at a table with Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves and Nadine Bhabha as they watch a musician perform.
TV Reviews

Vivek Shraya’s “How to Fail as a Popstar” Makes Failure Look Good

How to Fail as a Popstar embraces the limitations of its length and budget. Vivek Shraya and director Vanessa Matsui have crafted a work bursting with queer creativity, a story of artistic reality alive with artistic possibility.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 20, 2024
Vigil season two feature image - Suranne Jones stands with a beat up face gripping a jail door.
TV Reviews

Suranne Jones Excels In “Vigil” Season Two — But Its Romance (and Politics) Fall Flat

I love that Suranne Jones is being typecast as a woman who doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

Natalie February 15, 2024 5 Comments
screenshot from moon girl and devil dinosaur of lunella leaping in the hair excitedly and casey looking on with joy
TV Reviews

Marvel’s “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” Has Queer Characters and Literal Black Girl Magic

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur has casual queer characters and voice cast that includes Isabella Gomez, Indya Moore, Asia Kate Dillon, Maya Hawke, Alison Brie, and Robin Thede!

Nic February 14, 2024 6 Comments
Clone High season three: Cleopatra and Frida Kahlo makeout in class
TV Reviews

“Clone High” Season Three Is Worthy of Its Frida Kahlo/Cleopatra Lesbian Romance

Clone High’s third season is able to escape the confines of that dreaded “revival series curse.”

Rendy Jones February 10, 2024 1 Comment
Sofia Vergara dancing bisexually with a woman in Netflix's Griselda
TV Reviews

Yes, “Griselda” On Netflix Is Bisexual — But Does That Matter?

What’s the line between the raw knuckled ambition of greed and capitalism that are at the root of crime genres, and the slimy, glamorous girlboss-ification of a notorious killer?

Carmen Phillips January 31, 2024 1 Comment
TV Reviews

“Hightown” Fails to Fulfill Its Potential In Its Final Season

Given the opportunity to focus on Jackie — to build out her world, to deepen her connections with others — the show has always opted not to; instead, they just bring on more men.

Natalie January 26, 2024 7 Comments
LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland - Catherine Bohart stands next to a felt display of a vulva.
TV Reviews

The Hot Lesbian on “LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland” Should Have Won

Catherine Bohart has gained at least one new follower and fan.

Motti January 25, 2024 6 Comments
Love on the Spectrum queer: Journey, a teenage Black girl wearing a pastel pink top smiles at the camera.
TV Reviews

“Love on the Spectrum” Fails to Give Its Queer Woman the Dates She Deserves

While I was happy for Journey to be able to date, it felt like she was denied the opportunity to have age and experience-level appropriate encounters.

Nico January 23, 2024 10 Comments
Hazbin Hotel: the gay princess of hell Charlie and her girlfriend Vaggie
TV Reviews

Hazbin Hotel Is a Musical Extravaganza About a Bubbly Queer Princess of Hell

It’s very healing to see the Princess of Hell be a happy-go-lucky queer girl, living her best life with a girlfriend by her side.

Valerie Anne January 19, 2024 8 Comments
Sort Of season three: Sabi sits in the backseat of a car, half visible through a partially open window.
TV Reviews

“Sort Of” Season Three Reinvents the Transition Story

Not only is the season a new kind of transition story; it also recontextualizes the entire show as a new kind of transition story.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 18, 2024 1 Comment
SkyMed season two: Lexi and Stef kiss by the fire
TV Reviews

“SkyMed” Has Freak Accidents and A LOT of Queer Characters

SkyMed’s second season reveals one regular as bisexual and introduces three more queer women.

Valerie Anne January 17, 2024 4 Comments
Lauren Patten as Anna in Death and Other Details in a red revealing dress
TV Reviews

All Aboard! “Death and Other Details” Has Plenty of Queer Women On Its Murderous Cruise

In just the first two episodes, this show has some of the steamiest scenes I’ve seen in a hot minute.

Valerie Anne January 16, 2024 2 Comments
The queer couple in the Ted TV show, Blaire and Sarah
TV Reviews

The “Ted” TV Show Has Classic Crass Humor Plus a Queer Cousin

The offensive humor of the Ted franchise is called out by a queer character in the new TV series.

Valerie Anne January 15, 2024 15 Comments
True Detective: Night Country - Jodie Foster and Kali Reis stand in the snow
TV Reviews

“True Detective: Night Country” Is a Mediocre Network Procedural Masquerading As Prestige TV

It’s not just that these narratives are harmful. It’s that they’re boring.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 14, 2024 70 Comments
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Sports TV Reviews

“Under Pressure” Re-Centers the Identity of the U.S. Women’s World Cup Team

Netflix’s “Under Pressure” begins the work of re-establishing the USWNT as more than just pawns in someone else’s narrative. And to that, I can only say: LFG.

Natalie December 21, 2023 3 Comments
two men about to kiss in Fellow Travelers
TV Reviews

Gay Historical Fiction Series “Fellow Travelers” Flattens American Tragedies and Wrongdoings

Technically, the premise of Fellow Travelers has all the makings of what could have become a beloved piece of queer media.

Stef Rubino December 20, 2023 8 Comments
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