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Season two of Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q premiered on Sunday, August 8, and the new season found a way to make the show even worse than last season. It introduced a lesbian fiancée played by Rosie O'Donnell who bemoans the fact that women sometimes lose elections.

When we left off with the creepy and perverted new Gossip Girl reboot on HBO Max last week, we, unfortunately, had the displeasure of seeing a teacher, Rafa Caparros (Jason Gotay), give into having gay sex with his male student, Max (Thomas Doherty), something that was completely unjustifiable despite Max claiming to be “of age.” This Thursday, in the opening of the episode, “Hope Sinks” (if…

Well, it was only a matter of time before an -ish series went there. “There” being a Black Lives Matter storyline on Freeform’s Grown-ish (a spinoff of the racist ABC show Black-ish) depicting cops as racist predators in a system that is “determined to destroy” innocent black people who have “targets on (their) backs.” There was also some racism towards white people thrown in, just for fun, as…

Showtime's The Chi officially jumped the shark this season with their ridiculous defunding the police storyline that saw community protection groups step in instead. Even worse, in “Raisin in the Sun,” the August 1 season 4 finale, they laughably declared the experiment a success, saying, "The people of Chicago don't need policing. They need protection from the police." What's not funny is…

We’re only four episodes into HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot and already we have witnessed the graphic sexualization of teenagers. Thanks to episode four, “Fire Walks With Z,” which became available to stream on Thursday, we can now add gay teacher giving into his lust for his male student and having sex with him.

It’s not easy being Diane Lockhart in Season Five of Paramount+’s The Good Fight. The liberal feminist lawyer, a name partner in a well-established black Chicago law firm, is conflicted because of major attacks of white liberal guilt. She is struggling with two questions – should she step aside as a white name partner of a historically black law firm and can her marriage to a conservative…

In Sunday's episode of Paramount+’s Evil, aptly titled “C is for Cop,” it’s racist cops and white privilege that constitute this week’s evil entity.

Evil (formerly on CBS and now running on Paramount+), a series about a forensic psychologist teaming with a Catholic priest-in-training to investigate supernatural events, has targeted racism in the past, but their latest episode was about the evils of corporations and the need for unions.

As if the CW’s The Republic of Sarah isn’t melodramatic enough, the latest episodes of the new show have involved an affair Alexis Whitmore is having with AJ Johnson, despite being married to the town's former mayor. In the July 19 episode “A Show of Hands,” that affair caused an abortion.

Netflix's teen comedy Never Have I Ever dropped its second season on July 15. It brought us back into the world of high schooler Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and the struggles she faces not only as a typical teen trying to navigate boys, friendships, and school, but one doing so as a first-generation Indian American caught between cultures.

“Queer Disney history” was made on Friday when the absurdly titled High School Musical: The Musical: The Series debuted the kids entertainment giant’s first ever gay love song between two boys on Disney+.

A dark comedy premiered on Showtime on July 18 that centers around a depressed, suicidal widow and her grown daughter’s family. Adding to the mix is a teen character who was born female but hopes to transition to male.

It’s only the second episode of HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot, but the show is continuing full steam ahead on depicting inappropriate, sexualization of underage characters for their teen audience. This time, the worst scene takes place at a gay bathhouse where two naked, male teens students make out in front of their gay, male teacher to try to make him jealous so he’ll sleep with one of them…

When the original Gossip Girl series aired on The CW from 2007-2012, it caused a lot of controversy for its depictions of teen sex. But those scenes have nothing on the graphic sexualization of teen characters shown in the new Gossip Girl reboot on HBO Max which, along with a newfound wokeness, we're told is essential for realism.