The cold is settling in and the urge to crawl under the blanket with a good series is growing. Between the tensions of a women’s football team, the misadventures of a Gen Z squad, and the secrets of a prestigious military academy, here are nine queer series to devour warm and snug.
Hatchet murders, complicated romances, rivalries on the football fields, family secrets and queer loves… Autumn is set to be a dynamic season on the small screen! Wacky comedies, feel-good series or heart-racing thrillers: here is plenty of emotion and suspense for your nights under the blankets.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
After Dahmer, the Menendez brothers and Ed Gein, Ryan Murphy revisits another criminal case that marked American history: Lizzie Borden, accused of killing her father and his wife with a hatchet in 1892. Portrayed by Ella Beatty, the young woman is stifled within a bourgeois and puritanical family that scorns her. Until the day the arrival of a housemaid, played by Vicky Krieps, disrupts her daily life. Between the two women a relationship forms that is as intimate as it is troubled. A vertigo-inducing narrative where desire, patriarchal oppression and murderous impulses intertwine.
>> Available on Netflix
Dang !
Welcome to the Dang family, a Sino-American clan as endearing as it is dysfunctional! In New York, Andrew and Eunice, two twenty-somethings a bit adrift who take life as it comes, see their daily routine upended by the arrival of their eldest sister, Ruthie, until now a model of family success. Our favorite of the trio? Andrew, always ready to lend a hand, sometimes a bit too nice, but also an inveterate gay flirt who collects casual affairs across his New York nights. Created by Andrew Law, this animated sitcom wields irreverent humor to sketch familial neuroses and life’s little misfires, without ever losing its tenderness for its characters.
>> Available on Netflix
Ted Lasso (Season 4)
A new cleat-up for Ted Lasso! After coaching AFC Richmond’s men’s team, the American coach played by Jason Sudeikis returns to lead the Lady Greyhounds, an English second-division women’s team. New pitch, but the same recipe: good-natured humor, unwavering optimism and solidarity, set against sexism in football and sporting ambitions. In the locker room, Mady and Margy, two players in a relationship, go through a rough patch, while Alice, a lesbian assistant coach, must deal with tensions within the team and the ups and downs of her love life. Will the Lasso method work miracles on women’s football as well?
>> Available on Apple TV+
Apollo Has Fallen (Season 2)
After Paris Has Fallen, Zara Taylor (Ritu Arya), MI6’s lesbian agent, returns to service alongside her ally Vincent Taleb (Tewfik Jallab) in Apollo Has Fallen. They head to Libya, where the duo hunts a Russian mercenary who threatens Europe with a biological attack. Through betrayals and moral dilemmas, the two agents push on in mined terrain, risking a turn against their own hierarchy. But beyond the action and suspense, this new espionage thriller also dives into Zara’s romantic past, notably her tumultuous relationship with Hannah (Aylin Tezel).
>> Available on Canal+
Adults (Season 2)
After a first season full of charm, Adults builds on its success and proves it is much more than a Friends-for-Gen-Z show. Grounded in its era without ever veering into moralizing, the sitcom grows even more inventive, with clever twists and hilarious situations. A standout is the raccoon episode, a tiny jewel of absurdity! The series does not forget what also makes it appealing: the relationships among its characters, starting with the queer love triangle between Issa, Anton, and Paul Baker, which escapes the usual toxic tropes of the genre.
>> Available on Disney+
Carrie
More than just a remake of Brian De Palma’s cult film, the Carrie miniseries revisits Stephen King’s first novel in the age of social networks. Raised apart from the world by a ultrareligious mother, the teenage girl becomes the target of merciless cyberbullying. But when her telekinetic powers awaken, she intends to avenge her tormentors, even if it means setting her high school on fire. Not a LGBT+-themed work, this new version of Carrie should particularly speak to queer audiences through its gaze on harassment, difference, and the violence of rejection.
>> Available on Prime Video
Dear You (Season 2)
Prime Video’s French answer to Emily in Paris, the romantic comedy Dear You continues, in its second season, Alma’s love troubles as crisis manager in a Parisian palace. And she isn’t the only one with a complicated love life! Her colleague Theo, allergic to any form of commitment, sees his certainties shattered when Max, an ex-date he begins to fall for again, resurfaces. This prompts him to rethink his view of love. Without reinventing the wheel, Dear You remains an effective romantic comedy, powered by a likable cast.
>> Available on Prime Video
Minerva Academy
In the vein of Elite, finished in summer 2024, Minerva Academy drops us into the daily life of teenagers handpicked to join a prestigious Italian military academy, meant to open the doors to the country’s highest offices. The formula strongly echoes the Spanish series: handsome youths in uniform, rivalries, and a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a student from the previous year. Without giving too much away, one of the major storylines of this first season explores one student’s homosexuality and the homophobia that reigns within the ranks of the army.
>> Available on Netflix
A Different World
Thirty-nine years after its debut, Campus Show, a sitcom that became a cult classic among American Black audiences, makes a grand return in a refreshed version. This time, the story follows Deborah, the youngest in the family, as she takes her first steps at Hillman University. More in tune with its era, A Different World also makes room for queer characters, starting with Amir, a psychology student openly gay and proud to be so. Problem: he grows dangerously close to Jalen, his best friend’s boyfriend…
>> Available on Netflix
