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Pop Culture Fix: Olivia Wilde’s Queer Teen Buddy Comedy “Booksmart” Is Just One of the Five Gay Trailers in This Post

Heather Hogan
Mar 13, 2019

In this week’s Pop Culture Fix, I will prove, definitively, that all movies are gay now (or should be).


+ Literally all I want to do is talk about Captain Marvel, and while I will mostly refrain from doing that in this Pop Culture Fix, I would like to note that the film destroyed even Marvel’s most optimistic projections, and will earn over $500 million worldwide while I’m typing this sentence on Tuesday afternoon. Variety even says the myth of women superheroes flopping at the box office is over.

And now I shall unleash so many trailers for queer films upon you.

+ Booksmart is blowing critics’ minds at SXSW. It’s an Olivia Wilde-directed indie buddy comedy about two teenage girls — one of whom is queer — getting up to some shenanigans on their last night of high school. Lady Bird meets Superbad is what they say. New York Magazine‘s Emily Yoshida called it a masterpiece.

+ My Days of Mercy, starring Ellen Page and Kata Mara.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6FMc_nPmY&feature=youtu.be

+ Anna Paquin’s Tell It to the Bees.

+ The full official season two trailer for Killing Eve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLq2BDkCzyA&feature=youtu.be

+ BBC has dropped a trailer for Gentleman Jack, a new series about Anne Lister. (In the US, we’re getting it on HBO.)

+ Autostraddle CEO/Editor-in-Chief Riese Bernard is rightly quoted in this piece at NewNowNext about queer women who have never seen The L Word coming out and admitting it.

+ There’s a new Orphan Black series in development at AMC? I asked our very own Orphan Black expert Valerie Anne to explain this to me and she did so thusly: “IT’S SACRILEGE IS WHAT IT IS. IT’S NOT ORPHAN BLACK WITHOUT TATIANA, YOU MONSTERS.”

+ The entire USWNT is suing U.S. Soccer for gender discrimination. Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan chatted about it on CBS This Morning.

+ Frankie Shaw’s SMILF has been canceled at Showtime due to a probe into her alleged misconduct.

+ How one joke evolved along with Rhea Butcher’s gender identity.

+ Why Women Kill is coming to CBS All Access.

+ One more thing:

+ Hulu has set a premiere date for Harlots season three and it’s July 10th, with episodes dropping on subsequent Wednesdays after that.

+ Netflix has set a premiere date for She’s Gotta Have It season two and it’s May 24th.

+ It feels like Freeform’s Jordin Sparks’ comedy has to have a gay character, right?

+ And finally: Busy Phillips flew a plane around LA telling Netflix to #RenewODAAT! (I mean, she hired a plane — she didn’t fly it herself; she’s not some kind of Alison DiLaurentis.)