Autostraddle Staff Writers Carmen and Alaina in a conversation about the TV series, the legacy of Spike Lee’s work, black female representation on film, polyamory, and pansexuality.

Plus: Mariah and Tessa have a short-lived reunion on Y&R, The Originals gives us a queer wedding, what’s the damn deal with UnREAL, why has Queen Sugar abandoned Nova’s bisexuality, and more!

“Take My Wife” Season 2 is now available on iTunes and surprise, we loved it!

2017 somehow turned out to be the best year ever for lesbian and bisexual women on television — but we’ve still got a ways to go.

Plus hey did you know there’s queerness on Comedy Central’s “Detroiters”?

Quick updates on Lucifer, 9-1-1, and Legends of Tomorrow!

Plus: Gina Rodriguez on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, what’s gay on Critical Roll, and you should definitely watch Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Here’s how we handle TV that lets us down, the shows we think successfully turned it around, and our ultimate dealbreakers.

It’s gonna be cool for the summer with all these TV shows featuring lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters.

TCA wraps up this week but we’ve already picked the show we’re most excited about: Starz’s”Vida” has a Queer Latina showrunner, a writers room that’s 100% Latinx and 50% queer, an all-POC mostly-female directing team, and so many queer and gender non-conforming characters!

What exactly is Seth MacFarlane’s problem with trans people?

I don’t know if you’ve felt it yet, but we certainly have. This is the year where lesbian, bisexual, queer, and trans women of color are taking over your television screens.

“Nothing the show will throw at me will ever doubt my faith in the foundation of their love. NOTHING!! So don’t even try it, Jane the Virgin. This is an official warning.”

I like to imagine Gina Rodriguez settling into her chair in her directorial debut and saying to them both “Okay, love what you’re doing, keep doing it…but GAYER.”

These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.

Here’s how to nail Jughead’s classic lesbian look.

According to Variety, the new show is will be “an epic and timely tale that celebrates female friendship and empowerment, led by a warrior princess tailor made for today.”

This is brave and historic. But it’s played intimate and vulnerable and small and more than anything, normal. Just two people sharing together. Like we have seen straight people do a thousand times.

Plus updates on: Imposters, Into the Badlands, Timeless, Westworld, Grey’s Anatomy, and Coronation Street!

CBS already canceled Doubt, but the full first season is airing this summer and it’s breaking major ground for trans representation.