It’s the other hot ticket queer-themed show right now, “Better Call Saul” and “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan’s “Pluribus,” which has captured audiences’ imaginations much like that gay hockey show, and given Emmy-nominated Rhea Seehorn a starring role. She plays a grumpy lesbian novelist who, confronted with the bizarre reality of the world being taken over by a hive mind (don’t ask), resists the invasion and winds up the last person on what seems like a post-apocalyptic earth — almost. Season two is a go but, much like “Heated Rivalry,” not anytime soon. Gilligan moves at his own pace, and the word is that this will all take a long time, so this will give everyone who watched one series but not the other a chance to catch up on all the queer-themed goodness TV has to offer. Is 2027 good for you?
‘The Body’ wants to be your new ‘Stranger Things’
Queer creator Quinn Shephard — a writer-director-actress who started as a kid in movies like “Unaccompanied Minors” and who’s built a career moving back and forth between projects — has a new series on the way at Netflix. It’s called “The Body” and, in Shephard’s words, she’s hoping for the eight-episode story to become slumber party viewing. It involves a dance team initiation that goes off the rails and, as a result, a group of mischief-minded Catholic school girls have prophetic visions, causing their town to go wild. Shephard describes the vibe as “a love letter” to Y2K teen movies and erotic thrillers, classics like “Carrie,” the teen lesbian thriller “Heavenly Creatures” and “The Crucible.” It stars a young cast of up-and-comers like Kristina Bogic (“Playing Gracie Darling”), Sara Boustany (“Hello Beautiful”), Geena Meszaros (“The Order”), Shirley Chen (“Slanted”) and Sofia Wylie (“The Map That Leads to You”), and if all of that sounds enticingly spooky and strange, put it on your radar.
Lena Dunham’s giving ‘Good Sex’ to Netflix
The rom-com isn’t dead, it’s just streaming. Case in point: “Good Sex,” the latest feature film from “Girls” creator Lena Dunham, is currently in production and headed directly to your living room in 2026. The premise involves something new for Dunham: middle age. A 40-something therapist (Natalie Portman) ventures back into the dating world and finds two men — one in his 20s, one in his 50s — who help her explore all the variations of good sex (assuming, of course, that love is the end game or else it’s not much of a “rom” com). The supporting cast includes Emmy-winning gay actor Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), as well as Mark Ruffalo, Rashida Jones, Meg Ryan and Tucker Pillsbury (aka pop star Role Model). And its existence makes a lot of sense, since the “Sex and the City” extended TV universe has finally wrapped itself up, leaving us with a vacancy in comedic narratives about women having sex in a city. Coming soon!
You’ve got a ‘Golden Ticket’
You have, at some point in your queer life, identified with one or more of the badly behaved, mostly doomed children in the book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” or the classic 1971 musical film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” It’s just statistically probable. This means you have a stake in the outcome of the upcoming Netflix reality competition series, “The Golden Ticket.” Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is. Golden-ticket-having contestants will enter Wonka’s chocolate factory and then set against each other in challenges that will reward strategy, adaptation, and — the real killer, just ask Augustus Gloop — resisting temptation. Who will thrive in the chaos and win… well, whatever the big prize happens to be? Well, wait for it, Veruca, because the drop date hasn’t been announced.
Romeo San Vicente wants it now.