Need a boost to get over Hump Day? The Hot Sheet is Queerty’s midweek pop culture catch-up, highlighting the entertainment stories everyone’s talking about, the ones you might’ve missed, and the notable LGBTQ+ film & TV releases in the days ahead. Here’s everything you need to stay in-the-know:
What To Watch
- Chucky, Season 3 – Oct. 4 (Syfy/USA), Oct. 5 (Peacock): Everyone’s favorite homicidal doll—and inadvertent queer icon—returns, and this time he’s taking on the White House.
- Strange Way Of Life – Oct. 4 (Select theaters), Oct. 6 (Nationwide): Pedro Pascal & Ethan Hawke are lovers on opposite sides of the law in Pedro Alomodóvar’s answer to Brokeback Mountain.
- Our Flag Means Death, Season 2 – Oct. 5 (Max): “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonnet tries to win back his ex Blackbeard in the sophomore season of this hilarious, sea-faring comedy.
- Everything Now, Season 1 – Oct. 5 (Netflix): Breakout star of horror Talk To Me Sophie Wilde stars in this Aussie high school dramedy chock-full of queer characters.
- Desperately Seeking Soulmate – Oct. 6 (Prime Video): The eerie true story behind Twin Flame, the alleged online love cult the purportedly manipulated members’ gender identities.
- Dicks: The Musical – Oct. 6 (Select theaters in NY/LA/SF): If The Parent Trap was raunchier, gayer, and featured Megan Thee Stallion, you’d get this absurdist masterpiece.
- Loki, Season 2 – Oct. 6 (Disney+): Tom Hiddleston returns as Marvel’s bisexual “Trickster God” Loki in this time-and-space-hopping superhero series.
- Passages – Oct. 6 (Mubi): This sexy, darkly funny love triangle (co-starring out actor Ben Whishaw) was one of the most talked about indies of the fall, and now it’s coming to streaming!
- Texas, USA – Oct. 6 (VOD): A timely documentary following political candidates and activists (including queer organizer Adri Pérez) as they fight for democracy in this contentious state.
- Totally Killer – Oct. 6 (Prime Video): A throwback horror pastiche in which a teen is sent back to the ’80s and has to save her own mom from a masked slasher.
Culture Catch-Up
SUPERMAN/WOMAN: Raunchy and bloody, superhero series The Boys always knows how to get people talking, so of course its supes-in-training spin-off Gen V does, too. Case in point: Jordan, a bigender character with the power to transition at will. [Read all about it on INTO]
HELLO, UGLIES!: They’re baaaaack. The Boulet Brothers are set to return with the biggest and baddest season of Dragula yet, and now you can meet the fearsome global drag ghouls competing in season 5. [EW]
PACKAGE DEAL: Rising queer alt-pop star Omar Apollo new EP Live For Me drops Friday and—in a move that’ll no doubt jack up sales—the vinyl art will include a painted portrait of… um… Omar, Jr. [Read all about it on Queerty]
HUZZAH!: Every year, our sister site LGBTQ Nation honors the Heroes who have made a difference in their communities and beyond. 2023’s honorees include out wrestler Anthony Bowens, Club Q survivors, and more. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
I WANT TO PLAY A GAME: With Saw X being the best-reviewed movie of the infamously schlocky series, Jigsaw is cool again—but here’s why the gays have been stanning since day one. [Daily Beast’s Obsessed]
WHAT’S HER NAME?: Soon everyone‘s going to know Priyanka, the first winner of Canada’s Drag Race who, amid filming new episodes of HBO’s We’re Here, is promoting her rom-com It’s All Sunshine & Rainbows, in which she plays a weatherwoman (not a drag queen!) who has to save her family farm. [The Pink News]
DIGITAL GET DOWN: The can’t-miss queer series of the fall? It’s airing on OnlyFans—seriously! John Cameron Mitchell is a producer on xXPonyBoyDerekXx, a “digital play” about a young virtual sex worker that’s playing out in real-time on social media. [Read all about it on Queerty]
OUT IN THE RING: Meet Roger Ross Williams, the queer, Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Cassandro, the fantastically flamboyant biopic of gay luchador Saúl Armendáriz starring Gael García Bernal. [Read all about it on INTO]
LOOK CLOSER: At first glance, the three-dimensional work of artist Christian Rogers is all funky fluorescent florals, but stare a while longer and you’ll start to see erotic images of men. It’s like a horny optical illusion! If you’re in LA, a new exhibition of Rogers’ work is showing at the NOON Projects gallery through October 21. [Noon Projects]
YOU DESERVE TO SIT: Brian Jordan Alvarez‘s addictive, off-the-cuff ditty “Sitting” became an unlikely viral hit—could a record deal be next? The actor and comedian spills the tea on TJ Mack, thirst traps, and more. [Vulture]
¡ESCÚCHAME!: It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, so add all seven of these queer, trailblazing Spanish and Latin-American artists—from Anitta to Georgel—to your rotation. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
DOCTOR WHOA: Barbie, Sex Education, and future Time Lord Ncuti Gatwa is having one heck of a 2023. Newly out, he’s holding nothing back as he vacations in Rio de Janeiro—and was kind enough to share his souvenirs with us on Insta.
The Final Hump
Honey Davenport is a queen of the people. Need proof? The visuals for her new bop “Mighty Legendary” (filmed in part at Trixie Motel) deliver plenty of sexy, scantily clad eye candy and a message about responsible sexual health thanks to a sponsorship with MISTR, which offers free online PrEP and STI testing. By the time Miss Alaska hops on the track? Oh, it’s over! Bow down, y’all!
halcore
um, it’s Ncuti…perhaps you’re thinking of his cousin?
SDR94103
yawn.
Kangol2
Looks like cutie Ncuti was having a fun time in Rio, even kissing his…friend!
abfab
Mwa!
Rikki Roze
Yawn 2.
ShaverC
If he’s supposed to be playing a woman in the film, why does he still dress and act like a drag queen?
abfab
To f u c k with your head…which is an easy thing to do. So get over it. Damn, you ask the dumbest questions She-ver.
smittoons
With Doctor Who around the corner, I keep picturing a bunch of crusty BBC executives nervously eyeing Ncuti’s brilliantly thirsty social media and dress sense and pretending as hard as they can that they are completely living for it.
LumpyPillows
One can only hope that they give him great scripts. What they did to Jodie Whittaker was bad, and I love Jodie. So much they could have done with the first female Doctor and they blew it. In fact the writing has been bad for the last two Doctors. They need to embrace the first black and gay Doctor with gusto and get it done.
trell
After his scene-stealing character Eric in Sex Education over 4 seasons of debauchery, and wicked good fun, I’m pretty sure that even those crusty BBC execs knew that Ncuti’s acting past wasn’t quite as clean-cut as Jodie Whittaker, Matt Smith or David Tennant…..!