Bodies is a twisty crime drama in which a body is found in the same place in four different time periods. The show also has a surprising and beautiful gay romance, which we won’t spoil here. This week’s streaming picks are all science fiction series with decidedly queer bents.Read on for queer science fiction shows to stream this weekend.A spin-off of the much more wholesome BBC series Doctor Who, Torchwood stars out actor John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, who leads a team of alien-hunting operatives.
Jack is a sexually fluid time traveler who has traveled to Earth from the future. Torchwood goes wild with its time travel, with a much more mature and nuanced take on the Doctor Who formula. The irresistible Jack has a great love story with Gareth David-Lloyd‘s Ianto through the first few seasons, but there’s also a high body count—the bad kind—so get ready to sob multiple times and don’t get used to your faves! We can only hope that some version of Captain Jack returns in the upcoming season of Doctor Who, which is set to star queer actor Ncuti Gatwa as the new lead.Now streaming on Max.Based on the comic book series by Brian K.
Vaughan, this one-season wonder follows a group of paper girls in the 1980s who are unwittingly enveloped in an adventure across time and space. But the real heart of the show is the coming-of-age journey the girls are on, including KJ (Fina Strazza), who struggles with her sexuality until she meets her older self—an out and proud young woman with a girlfriend. KJ’s journey is poignant, smartly told and makes us yearn for a second season.
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