Happy mid-week Pop Culture Fix, friends!
+ Azie Tesfai on the emotional hour of penning her first hour of TV for last night’s Supergirl.
+ Reservation Dogs’ star Devery Jacobs joins expanded all Indigenous writers room for season two.
+ Carmen mentioned this in Also.Also.Also. yesterday, but I just wanna repeat from the rooftops: Lil Nas X’s “Jolene” cover is queer country joy at its finest.
+ Finally! The trailer for Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, Passing, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga!
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga star in PASSING.
Rebecca Hall's directorial debut, an adaptation of the 1929 Nella Larsen novel, is in select theaters this October and on Netflix November 10. https://t.co/va3OsOVAtm
— Netflix Tudum (@NetflixTudum) September 21, 2021
+ Seimone Augusts found her voice long before coaching.
Augustus’s parents and family supported her, but others were hostile. “You had parents coming up to my parents and saying, ‘Because your daughter is gay, she’s got my daughter feeling like she’s gay,’” Augustus said.
NYT has never called me out quite like that before ’cause Seimone Augusts was, in fact, a very large part of my own gay awakening.
+ Sophie Santos also cried all the way through The Haunting of Bly Manor.
+ How Teenage Bounty Hunters and Good Trouble challenge biphobic stereotypes.
+ Here’s the trailer for Hightown season two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4xAoWkA5rU&ab_channel=STARZ
+ Abby McEnany was charming as heck on Late Night With Seth Myers.
+ CLAWS is coming back so soon!
+ WBTV writers on telling immigration stories and tackling crossovers.
