Hail to the Chief
Hey, well will you look at that, more good news for 2020. This time it comes in the form of Edie Falco who is the star of the new CBS series “Tommy,” about the fictitious first female police chief of...
View ArticleMs. Equal Rights
Well, now. Isn’t Cate Blanchett getting good at flexing her villain muscles? The trailer for the new FX miniseries Mrs. America has been released and, dammit, if Cate isn’t making me worried I’ll feel...
View ArticlePrey Tell
Yes, it’s new trailer week here at Surrenders. New year, new things to get excited about. Like the “Birds of Prey” movie, now with more Harley Quinn and other lady badasses and a whole lot less of that...
View ArticlePre-L: Lapse in Judgment
Let’s do the minor time jumps again. Like, you know, by two weeks. Sorry for that little Rocky Horror innuendo, I was just preparing you for your final episode of the first season of “The L Word:...
View ArticleSeason Review: The L Word: Generation Q
Well now, that was indeed something. I’ve already gone on and on about how much I unexpectedly fell in love with “The L Word: Generation Q.” No, obviously, it wasn’t perfect. The clunky, “Everybody...
View ArticleSaving This Year
While there’s a lot NOT to look forward to in 2020 (like, I’m already so exhausted and the general election hasn’t even fucking started yet…), there are still many wonderful things to look forward to....
View ArticleSuper Lesbians
Look, we can all get a little tapped out on superhero stories. I’ve stopped watching “Supergirl” and hoo boy was “Aquaman” bad. I mean, don’t get me wrong - I still watch them. Right now I’m watching...
View ArticleThe Good End
Tonight we say goodbye to a friends. A good, thoughtful, hilarious, philosophical, zany, unpredictable, romantic, compassionate, and always entertaining friend – who also swears kinda funny. Sure, some...
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
You might have heard a mighty whoop on Jan. 15. It was Earpers the globe over rejoicing as filming started on the new, long-delayed fourth season of “WYnonna Earp.” As know all too well, financial...
View ArticlePretty Super
The Super Bowl is kind of a de facto national holiday here in the states. It’s a day of over indulgence and screaming at the television and watching obscenely expensive advertising – oh, and some...
View ArticleThat Rocks
Looks like we’re gonna see Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan’s Victorian-era fossil hunting lesbian love story (wow, say that three times fast) in the relatively near future. U.S. indie distributor Neon...
View ArticleFeatherweight Fighters
I was generally excited about the “Birds of Prey” movie because more women kicking butt the better. But after The Gail Simone (who wrote the most beloved era of the comics) gave it her wholehearted...
View ArticleFuck ’Em
For no reason in particular, fuck the GOP. Fuck everyone in the Trump administration who promotes his endless racism, stupidity and corruption. Fuck those 52 Republican senators who abdicated their...
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
SPOILERS:If you haven’t watched the finale of “The Good Place,” seriously what is wrong with you? But also you should stop reading. Also, sorry, for whatever reason SAP is turned on in the above scene....
View ArticleBut It's A Good Parasite, I Swear
Well now, that was something. I’m genuinely, genuinely thrilled for “Parasite.” South Korea in the house! It only took 92 years for a foreign-language film win best picture. Yet somehow it became the...
View ArticleCarol: The Sequel
After my 10,069th “Carol” rewatch last week, I sat back wistfully and dreamed of what a sequel continuing the love story of Carol Aird and Therese Belivet would look like. And then The Series of Tubes...
View ArticleSGALGG/GGALGG: Oscars Edition
Told ya it was coming. So outside of Janelle Monae representing for queer black artists to start the shows, the Oscars were a pretty straight affair. At least, what we saw on television was pretty...
View ArticleGGALGG: See Sarah Flirt
You may have noticed in yesterday’s (very very belated; sorry about that) post, there was no mention of the one and only Sarah Paulson. But, don’t worry, while Ms. Paulson and her Lover Holland...
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
Sometimes you just need a little reminder that very different, totally separate entities can still coexist peacefully. And, even more important, that they can actually like and help one another. Here a...
View ArticleFemale President's Day
Well, it’s President’s Day in these here United States. As we all know all too well, in our nation’s history there has never been a female president. Just 45 (almost entirely white) dudes. Heck, we’ve...
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