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Unconventional ships we love: Jenny and Shane look off to the side and smile while embracing.

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7 Unconventional Ships Only We Love

We love these fictional couples — even if you don’t.

The TV Team —

May 9, 2024

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Divorce Week

Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights, Athena Grant from 911, and Iris West from the Flash, all in dark sunset overlayed colors

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These Fictional Straight Women Should Divorce Their Husbands (And Marry Me)

“Tami Taylor put on those aviator sunglasses and I was like, girl you need me. She flipped her hair to the side and I was like, girl you need me.…

The TV Team —

Feb 13, 2024

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A collage of images from Twenties, Anais in Love, Vida, Saving Face, Cruel Intentions, and A League of Their Own

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What Makes a Sexy Lesbian Screenshot

“I want to amend my answer and say I prefer the kiss itself if it’s open mouth and the almost kiss if it’s just going to be two chaste actors…

The Editors —

Nov 10, 2023

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Carol watches as Therese puts on perfume

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Were We Ever So Young: Couples We Used To Ship and Were Extremely Wrong About

Now we are older and wiser! We can look back on our favorite toxic ships with compassion or horror or both.

The TV Team —

Oct 19, 2023

national coming out day

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A collage of cut out images from famous TV coming out scenes, in front of a blurred tv background, left to right: Robin from Stranger Things, Denise from Master of None, Santana from Glee, Naomi from Skins, and Elena Alvarez from One Day at a Time

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The Coming Out Scenes We’ll Never Forget

“I doubt that Santana was written from the jump with the intention to make her a lesbian, but sometimes that’s what a coming out journey feels like — like you’re…

The TV Team —

Oct 11, 2022

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P-Valley Has Changed the Rules of Black Queer Storytelling

A roundtable between four queer black writers about THEE show of the summer that united exceptional storytelling, with blackness and queerness and southernness, in ways we’ve never seen before.

Natalie —

Aug 19, 2022

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“And Just Like That” TV Team Roundtable: On Che’s Comedy Concert, Miranda’s Queer Awakening, LTW’s Jumpsuit and More!

The TV Team weighs in on all our feelings about Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That’s first season: the good, the bad and the Che Diaz.

The TV Team —

Feb 4, 2022

The L Word Generation Q Season Two

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A collage of the black characters from Generation Q, left-to-right: Angie, Bette and Pippa, Sophie. Bottom row, left-to-right: Kayla, Maribel, Eddie

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On Blackness and “The L Word: Generation Q”

Black queer people are in this community. Trans queer people are in this community. And we deserve to get lost in a good time, too. We deserve fun, messy, sexy…

The Speakeasy —

Oct 14, 2021

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A collage of Twin Peaks, E.T., and The Haunting of Hill House

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How and Why We Like to Be Scared by TV and Movies

Horror has always been my favorite genre. I’m a very anxious person and something about having that anxiety externalized in a way that’s fun or cathartic has always really appealed…

The TV Team —

Oct 23, 2020

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Khadijah and Scooter from Living Single, Coach and Tami from Friday Night Lights, Dwayne and Whitley from A Different World, and Malika & Isaac from Good Trouble

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The Straight TV Couples We Won’t Apologize For Loving

“Because I never want to be enemies with the love of my life, that’s why.”

The TV Team —

Oct 9, 2020

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A collage of four shows on our list: The Bisexual, Friday Night Lights, Golden Girls, Dracula.

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What 4 TV Shows Do You Love More Than Anyone Else?

“These roundtables are fun, because sometimes I’m answering and I’m like GOD I’M SO MYSELF and I feel that here. Not just because I feel anxious about whether I really…

The TV Team —

Sep 25, 2020

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Describe an Iconic Gay TV Show You’ve Never Seen

“Stephen Universe is a cartoon show about a little boy with a large mouth who wears flip-flops regardless of weather or situation. Rebecca Sugar made the show and she is…

The TV Team —

Aug 28, 2020