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.
+ 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.
Emma Corrin (The Crown): Feel Good
"I watched it during lockdown. It’s the most uplifting thing ever. I think Mae Martin’s a genius. It’s the most relatable, incredible love story." pic.twitter.com/A0fWgEccVi
— Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) December 12, 2020
+ 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.Â
