Welcome to your weekly pop culture fix, the only news on the internet that won’t push you close to the edge of a panic attack!
+ Melissa McCarthy is playing lesbian biographer Lee Israel in the upcoming biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me? It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend to solid reviews. I’m attending a screening in a few weeks and will report back!
+ Is anyone watching Netflix’s Atypical? Brigette Lundy-Paine, who plays Casey, told the Advocate that she identifies as queer and also that her character has a storyline around her sexuality this season.
+ The Oscars have put a pin in their stupid “Popular Oscar” plan.
+ Mia Kirshner read something she really liked about Jenny Schecter.
+ Dearest, here comes a Dusty Springfield biopic written and directed by the screenwriter of Carol
+ Grey’s is adding a gay dude for the first time.
+ Here’s your day made.
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+ NBC upped Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s order to 18 eps for the upcoming season!
+ This sure is Sarah Paulson in a suit talking about the new season of American Horror Story. She also talks about how she’ll never say no to Ryan Murphy, and that makes one of us!
+ Also Polygon made a murder board of all the ways all the seasons and characters on AHS intersect.
+ Look who’s playing Bessie Coleman on the new season of Drunk History!
+ Here’s Joan Jett’s first track in five years.
+ The first teaser for Noelle Stevenson’s She-Ra reboot has got me HYPED!
+ I’m still confused about whether or not A Simple Favor is gay but I’m going to keep pretending it is until someone tells me otherwise, even if it’s just so I can tell you Anna Kendrick’s never seen Gossip Girl.
+ One Day at a Time‘s creative team is making a whole new show. (Related: Latina speaking characters on TV reach historic high… of 7 percent.)
