Curated playlist
LGBTQ speculative fiction 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…
- True BloodAlan Ball found True Blood's source novel by accident. He wandered into a bookstore before a dental appointment.
- Castlevania (TV series)Castlevania's Dracula tries to kill all of Wallachia after his human wife is burned at the stake.
- Cardcaptor SakuraCardcaptor Sakura begins when ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally opens a book in her basement. The book was made by a sorcerer named Clow Reed, and it holds a set of magical cards that now scatter into the world. Unless she gathers…
- 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…
- She-Ra and the Princesses of PowerAn orphan raised as a Horde soldier finds a magic sword in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
- For All Mankind (TV series)In the TV series For All Mankind, a Soviet cosmonaut lands on the Moon first.
- 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…
- Devilman CrybabyDevilman Crybaby, in the words of Newsweek's Emily Gaudette, was "the bloodiest, most profane animated series of the year." Masaaki Yuasa directed the Netflix series, which arrived on the 5th of January 2018. Within days it had become one…
- Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series)Cowboy Bebop's original director stopped watching Netflix's live-action version at a casino scene.
- 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…
- Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…