Here’s your midday Pop Culture Fix, friends!
+ Kate McKinnon is one of six creative leaders in comedy honored for Variety‘s 2021 Power of Women. In her cover profile, she talks as candidly as I’ve ever heard her talk, even about how she uses comedy to cope with social anxiety.
+ Tig Notaro’s next comedy special will be fully animated.
+ In Emily VanDerWerff’s newsletter today, she published an essay from Cameron Wolff called Euphoria, Jules Vaughn, and what happens when a trans woman goes to therapy. It’s great!
+ BORING.
the gc just got interesting. welcome to #thewilds, boys. pic.twitter.com/TPVB7n1zQE
— The Wilds (@thewildsonprime) May 3, 2021
+ Tuca & Bertie season two will premiere on Adult Swim.
+ Girls5Eva is all of us, even queer viewers.
+ The Rachel/Dana will they/won’t they is reaching fever pitch in Mythic Quest.
+ Chyler Leigh on her Supergirl directing debut and her notes for young Alex.
+ What the sexual violence of Game of Thrones begot.
+ Hannah John-Kamen will play Joey Soloway’s Red Sonja (the bloody bisexual Xena of comic books).
+ Batwoman‘s Wallis Day teases a more sadistic Kate Kane.
Thank you so much for including my article about Girls5Eva!
for a laugh click through the Wilds tweet and look at the # of quote tweets.
It’s SO FUNNY literally all the replies are “we’re all gay, know your audience bestie”
I’m so upset about the Wilds news. I’ve watched the first season three times and I was really looking forward to the second.