Welcome to your first Pop Culture Fix of 2019! If you missed any of our must-read end-of-year pop culture lists, you can find them all right here!Â
+ Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, which translates to “How I Felt When I Saw That Girl,” will be the first mainstream film in India to include a lesbian character. Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor will play the lead! Bonus: It’s also written and directed by a woman.
+ Will Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith are developing a “show choir drama” for Freeform called Harlem High, which I am including in this roundup because it is law that “show choir dramas” must include gay people.
+ If you had the good sense to stay off Twitter over the holiday you might have missed Celine Dion rocking out to Lady Gaga, so I shall include it here — and this tweet — for you for a variety of queer reasons. Also, Lady Gaga just bought a giant robot, in case you’re wondering if becoming a movie star has changed her.
+ I guess Madonna just showed up at Stonewall and performed on New Year’s Eve???
+ Carmen Phillips is taking you on a deep dive about the glorious ways Latinx butches lit up TV in 2018, where the trend fits in history, and what it means for the future.
+ I wish I could get excited for PLL: The Perfectionists on account of a Mona/Ali spin-off would have been my wildest dream around about season four, but, well, you know. Anyway here’s a first look at Professor DiLaurentis. (Still no word on what happened to her wife Emily Fields and their two whole entire children.)
+ TVLine has a list of burning questions for the next half season of How to Get Away With Murder; weirdly, that list does not include, “Are Annalise and Tegan going to hook up or what!”
+ Sigh.
+ Sarah Paulson doesn’t actually love it when Ellen scares her on her talkshow.
+ ICYMI over the holigays: Make Susie Gay, You Cowards: On The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Lesbian Problem
+ From Lauryn Hill to Cameron Post to Tara Westover, 2018 repeatedly asked the question, What does it mean to teach a person to surrender? A Year of Miseducation
+ Everything you need to know about Kristen Stewart’s new girlfriend.
+ I looked and looked and don’t see that we ever included this Tessa Thompson interview in a link roundup in December so I’m sharing it now because of the question, “Do potential goat comparisons ever cross your mind when you’re getting dressed?” (Answer: “I think I’m going to start doing it the other way around now—finding goat images and try to recreate myself looking like them.”)
