Welcome to your weekly pop culture fix, where we stop being polite and start getting real… about pop culture.

+ The Handmaid’s Tale Season Three trailer is here! Guess what, it’s gonna be kinda dark, but Serena Joy and June are gonna, at some point, be smoking by a pool together, so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcTvQx1Wot0&feature=youtu.be

+ Kristen Stewart told ABC News that she felt a “huge responsibility” to define her sexuality but “sees a shift” in culture that has allowed young people to accept more fluidity in gender and sexuality:

“I felt this huge responsibility, like one that I was really genuinely worried about, if I wasn’t able to say one way or the other, then was I sort of like forsaking a side. The fact that you don’t have to now is like so much more truthful.”

+ Suranne Jones, who plays Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack, hired a lesbian “intimacy expert,” Ita O’Brien, to help her with the lesbian sex scenes, recalling:

“I was quite nervous about the sex scenes we had to do, because I thought they should be approached as sensitively as they could be. One of the great things she brought was an articulacy – we could talk about the scenes. She just started talking about body parts and positions in a matter of fact way, which just liberated us all.”

+ A beautifully scathing indictment: Norman Lear and Rita Moreno on ‘One Day at a Time’ and the Agony of Death By Data at Netflix (Guest Column)

But something is missing if that is the only criterion for survival of a show, the only data point, the only litmus test. Perhaps media has gone the way of managed care — the focus no longer patient and doctor, but bottom line.

+ Entertainment mogul Lena Waithe shares her secret—call back until a black person answers

+ Lesbian musical The Prom lands 7 Tony Awards nominations

+ The Walking Dead finally explain why they killed off two LGBT characters in season 9

+ ‘Boomerang,’ ‘Special,’ ‘Good Trouble’ Bosses Talk State of Queer Representation on TV: An incredible conversation that includes people like Ryan O’Connell, Lauren Morelli, Our Lady J and Joanna Johnson.

+ My Thoughts on Netflix’s ‘Special’ as a Lesbian With Mild Cerebral Palsy

+ Rich Juzwiak talks to Ani DiFranco about her new memoir: Ani DiFranco Is Tired of Talking About Herself (So Here She Goes Again)

+ Musician Clairo Is Getting Comfortable Being ‘Not Straight’: I’m still not really sure what my sexuality is, but I do know that it’s not straight

+ 15 Gayest Moments From “Avengers: Endgame,” Which Was Great But Unfortunately Not Gay

+ Potential Trend Alert: Anne Lister Collected Her Ex-Lovers’ Pubic Hair, Kept Them In Lockets

+ From ‘Batwoman’ to ‘Evil,’ a Look at Pilot Season’s Buzziest Projects

+ Shailene Woodley Starring in Serial Killer Thriller ‘Misanthrope’

+ “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” Season Two Is Even More Hopeful (and Gay)

+ Did you know that we have an L Word podcast now? WELL WE DO and it’s really great, everybody loves it, everybody’s doing it, check it out: “To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 104: Longing

+ Greg Berlanti Says Gay Execs Blocked Him Casting Gay Actors