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2020s American LGBTQ-related drama television series

  • The Last of Us (TV series)The Last of Us, an HBO drama about a world undone by a fungal infection, premiered on the 15th of January 2023. That first night, 4.7 million viewers watched it across linear television and HBO Max. Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, is a…
  • Stranger ThingsAbout 15 cable networks rejected Stranger Things because its leads were children.
  • Grey's AnatomyGrey's Anatomy began with nine star-billed actors, and by its 19th season only three were left: Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. The medical drama follows surgical interns, residents and attendings at a fictional Seattle…
  • Lioness (American TV series)Lioness is an American spy thriller created by Taylor Sheridan, and its central idea is a CIA unit built around women. The agents in that unit are called Lionesses. They go undercover in the war on terror, and a senior officer recruits…
  • Castlevania (TV series)Castlevania's Dracula tries to kill all of Wallachia after his human wife is burned at the stake.
  • The White LotusEvery season of The White Lotus, the American black comedy drama anthology created, written and directed by Mike White, opens on the same unsettling image: an unidentified corpse at a luxury resort. The series premiered on HBO on the 11th…
  • Monster: The Ed Gein StoryMonster: The Ed Gein Story earned a Metacritic score of 28 out of 100, yet it drew 12.2 million views on Netflix within its first three days. That split between audience appetite and critical disgust is the strangest fact about this 2025…
  • The Boys (TV series)The Boys is an American satirical superhero series that Hollywood spent years refusing to make. Director Adam McKay carried the idea to every studio and financing house in town, along with a pre-visualization reel of superheroes doing…
  • RWBYRWBY's title is not a word but a color code. It stands for red, white, black and yellow, the four leads' colors.
  • The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)The Handmaid's Tale, an American dystopian drama made for the streaming service Hulu, made Emmy history in 2017. It became the first series on a streaming service to win Outstanding Drama Series. Four years later, it collected 21…
  • Interview with the Vampire (TV series)Interview with the Vampire, the AMC television series, begins with a request from a 145-year-old vampire named Louis de Pointe du Lac. He summons a journalist, Daniel Molloy, and asks him to redo an interview the two of them recorded 49…
  • For All Mankind (TV series)In the TV series For All Mankind, a Soviet cosmonaut lands on the Moon first.
  • Euphoria (American TV series)Euphoria, the HBO drama created by Sam Levinson, began with an instruction in June 2017. Levinson had been invited to meet Francesca Orsi, HBO's head of drama, about adapting an Israeli series. The two ended up talking about life and the…
  • The PittThe Pitt is an American medical drama that squeezes an entire season into one twelve-hour shift in a hospital emergency room. The fictional setting is the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, and its emergency department goes by the nickname…
  • Severance (TV series)Severance, the American television series created by Dan Erickson, began with a man in an office who wished he could "skip the eight hours of the workday, to disassociate and just get it over with". Erickson had finished a master's degree…
  • Pluribus (TV series)Pluribus is a television series about a world that has become gloriously happy, and one woman who wants no part of it. Only 13 people on Earth are immune to the change. One of them is Carol Sturka, played by Rhea Seehorn. Everyone else has…

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