Since I finished my revision a week ago, I have watched and completed four TV shows. What else was I supposed to do with all that extra time in the evenings? Read? Exercise? Be creative in other ways? Nope. TV was clearly the right choice and all of it was fantastic. So, for your amusement . . . Fair warning, these are all very, very gay.
Q-Force: A new show on Netflix. Animated. Ten thirty-minute episodes. Very mature and explicit. A gay spy and his covert (and very queer team) do spy shit while fighting the ingrained homophobia of government agencies. Fantastic, with a surprising amount of satire for The Princess Diaries movies.
Young Royals. A Swedish show, also on Netflix. Real people. Six-hour-ish episodes. The prince goes to an elite boarding school and has to navigate responsibility, privilege, and oh, also his very gay, very secret feelings for a local kid. Mmm. Yes, more of this, please.
Eyewitness. This was a rewatch of perhaps one of the best shows of all time but don’t get your hopes up because it’s impossible to find unless you already own it, want to buy the DVDs, or are cool with some pirate streaming. I am a mix of all of the above. Ten, forty-five-minute episodes, complete series, with real people (I have to specify that since I watch so much animation). The premise: a new-to-this-small-town foster kid and a scared-of-gay-feelings motocross jock secretly mess around at a cabin and then – surprise – are interrupted by a triple homicide that they witness and escape. It’s a mystery with detective drama and teenage trauma and found family and first love. This show has it all. Seriously. So tense. So romantic. Damn, should I just watch this again right now?
Love, Victor. The spinoff show to the movie Love, Simon (on Hulu) follows Victor, a closeted gay kid who’s figuring out his identity, as he starts at a new school. Complicated family dynamics. Wholesome friendships. First love. The gay pining. I’d watched the first season last year but had been dragging my feet on the second so I changed that this week. The first season, ten episodes, thirty minutes each. The second season, ten episodes, thirty minutes each. Wrapped it up this morning. It’s a very good show.
Now that I’ve fit an extraordinary amount of TV in these last seven days, I am at a loss again. Currently taking recs for queer shows with pining and happy endings. Foster kid and teen jock with a backdrop of tension and trauma highly requested. It’s such a specific trope (but I basically wrote my first book based on it, so . . . ).
Or maybe I should read a book. Write a book. Not consider rewatching In the Flesh which always breaks my heart.
With Love,
Natalie