It’s 35 degrees in New York City today which is 30 degrees warmer than it has been in a while. I shoveled the melting snow in a t-shirt, and then I wrote this Pop Culture Fix for you.
- KateMcKinnon, Gillian Anderson, and a bathtub. That’s all you need to know about this story.
The end of this story is we got to work together & she’s the coolest, loveliest chick ever. The crush is reciprocated! @latelateshow #KateMcKinnon pic.twitter.com/9TLAU5GJfR
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) January 10, 2018
- Laneia already told you this in Also.Also.Also but I just want to tell you again: The season two trailer for One Day at a Time is here!
- Hey and here’s another trailer! It’s for Supergirl’s return! Any Mon-El is too much Mon-El in my opinion but if you can block him out there’s plenty to love here and he’ll be gone soon. (Also, don’t panic about the short hiatus that’s happening to the show this winter.)
https://youtu.be/9cjo8I5FpNY
- Riverdale’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch spin-off has found its Sabrina and IT’S SALLY DRAPER. (Perfect, perfect, perfect.)
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Ellen’s new game show has already been renewed for a second season.
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The NYT profiled Lena Waithe ahead of The Chi’s debut on Sunday night. Here is a beautiful and true thing:
“We are not in the same world anymore,” she said. “Even white people are tired of watching white people’s shows.”
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There’s a Clexa comic on the way; maybe you’re interested in making it happen?
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On the heels of Runaways’ season one finale, Hulu has renewed it for another season! (Also Hulu just landed its 17 millionth subscriber.)
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Here’s how Emma Stone learned Billie Jean King’s signature move for Battle of the Sexes.
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Natalie made my day when she shared this tweet in Slack this morning.
Bye 👋 👋👋 https://t.co/Fv1HQxuLSM
— Hudson David Yang (@HudsonDYang) January 10, 2018
* this gillian anderson video forced me to make an entire gillian anderson channel in autostraddle slack consisting of only me and rachel.
Gillian Anderson is responsible for my love of pantsuits and redheads. I would be right there with you
Can I start writing for Autostraddle just to join that channel?
WHAT? Why don’t I know anything about this? Oh, you meant another Rachel, didn’t you? :(
Can’t wait for One Day at a Time to come back. I haven’t been this excited for a TV show to come back in years
I KNOW! I don’t generally even like laugh-track sitcoms, but this one just hit me in the feels and made me laugh.
Also, the Buffy/Angel fan in me is excited to see Justina Machada get some love – she’s fantastic and I feel like she has not gotten the volume/quality of work she deserves!
Just an observation that ODAAT is filmed before a live studio audience and if you’re ever in LA you can apply to be there for the filming.
What makes you think that Mon-El will be gone soon? He’s clearly still shooting and will very likely stay at least the entire season.
Something I haven’t heard enough about, did you all know that there is somebody playing a queer character other than Thunder and Grace? https://afro.com/actress-shein-mompremier-joins-superhero-drama-black-lightning/
If Gillian Anderson ever saw the videos I made for her, I’d have to toss a toaster in my bathtub and jump in.
Is Mon-El really going to be gone soon? Is he REALLY? I might actually start watching again if that were true but the writers love Mon-El. The only way he’s leaving for good is if Benoist and Wood break up IRL.
Yeah that happens next episode on “Supergirl”, BUUUUUUUUUT the episode after that…
Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) gets together with Saturn Girl (Amy Jackson), Livewire (Brit Morgan), and Psi (Yael Grobglas) to fight Reign (Odette Annabelle). GIVE ME THAT GIRLPOWER!
I have a rule of not shipping real-life humans – which I only break every time I see two adult females make eye-contact – but I’m pretty sure Kate and Gillian are pure manifestations of extremely high frequency energy ripping up the space-time continuum with ethereal perfection, anyway, so I’m going to go ahead and wish them a happy life together.
So very well said.
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Heads up to Autostraddle Staff and Readers:
Jussie Smollett just released his debut music video and it’s all about a same-sex couple, played by Cynthia Erivo and Tika Sumpter!
You can watch it here
http://www.complex.com/music/2018/01/jussie-smollett-freedom-video
I’m SO pumped for the Sabrina spin-off! Has anyone else seen Kiernan Shipka in The Blackcoat’s Daughter (along with Emma Roberts ❤︎)? She’s perfect and I can’t wait to see her get up to more spooky occult shit!!
And thus, Anderson ignited the spark of hope for all of our own personal “the crush is reciprocated” moments (you know, for when we all get famous and get to work with the objects of our affection). Sigh.
Also, I demand a response video consisting of McKinnon in the bathtub seeing that clip/reading the tweet.
YES THIS, I need to know what her reaction was.
…And see her in the bathtub :O
Just wanted to say thanks for that Gillian Anderson video. :)
Oh my god, I know what video Gillian is talking about and I fuh-reaked out about it when I saw it. It’s really old from when Kate was still on Big Gay Sketch Show. I never in a million years would have predicted that Gillian would have watched it. Omg