There’s a blizzard on its way to NYC and this is your Wednesday Pop Culture Fix!


+ Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is only two days away! And here is another wonderful Viola Davis interview!

+ Carmen and Natalie have been doing so many investigations into whether or not Shonda Rhimes’ first Netflix series, Bridgerton, is going to be gay — and finally it has been confirmed with the trailer! Kind of! There’s some ladies in corsets making out at what Carmen suspects is an underground sex party.

https://twitter.com/bridgerton/status/1338498982754959360?s=12

+ Disney makes up for Tiana being a frog for half the movie by giving her a series.

+ On Peace of Mind with Taraji P. Henson, Gabrielle Union explains how Zaya Wade felt outed by gossip blogs.

+ Stevonnie leads the way on Cartoon Network’s new pronoun PSAs!

+ Black Swan is a Hanukkah movie.

+ Over at Wired, Angela Watercutter pulled on the thread of that Charlize lesbian Die Hard tweet and basically made the whole movie!

+ Look who’s making another movie!

https://twitter.com/carlytron/status/1338571505039372288

+ At Slate, trans critic Emily VanDerWerff wrote about how Mrs. America reconfirmed that women’s history is her history.

+ The Saved by the Bell reboot gave me an existential crisis.

+ The Wilds cast on queer teen girls surviving on an island.

+ Like you, The Crown‘s Princess Diana loved Mae Martin’s Feel Good and Jo Ellen Pellman uses GBBO as a coping mechanism.

+ Related: Jo Ellen Pellman knew her people were out there.

+ Nonbinary TV characters had a landmark year. Advocates say hold the applause.

+ All American season three is full of secrets.

+ Queen Latifah’s Last Holiday gets its due on Two Old Queens.

+ Since they will never air, here are the loglines for the final six episodes of One Day at a Time. 

+ St. Vincent announced a new album yesterday.

+ The Whitney Houston biopic has found its Whitney.