Welcome to your weekend streaming recommendations, a.k.a. the Weekend Watch, a handy guide to the queerest film and TV content that’s just a click away!It’s back-to-school season, and college students are heading to campus for some good old-fashioned education.
But as we all know, the college experience is about so much more than what you learn in your text books…So, as you get settled into your dorms, check out these university-set films and television series where you’ll learn important lessons like: How To Survive An Apocalypse 101, Advanced Camp Comedy Applications In Slashers, an Intro On Getting Freaky With Your Hot Roommates, and, of course, How To Get Away With Murder.Read on for four, queer dorm-set streaming recommendations, and consider this your syllabus for another gay semester in academia:Directed by queer auteur Gregg Araki, this 2010 film was the recipient of the first-ever Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.
In the darkly comical and quirky Kaboom, which has Araki’s signature blend of surreal and sexy, Smith (Thomas Dekker) is a college kid who identifies as “undeclared” and sleeps with both men and women.
Smith starts having strange dreams about some sort of cosmic impending doom, and through several sexual exploits and strangely hot encounters with Hunter (Jason Olive), Rex (Andy Fischer-Price) and London (Juno Temple), discovers a nefarious plot that could spell the end of the world.Now streaming on Kanopy, AMC+, Mubi, Pluto, and Plex.This increasingly convoluted Shondaland mystery series has an alluring hook—a group of law school students at a fictional university get an internship at their defense attorney professor’s (Viola Davis) prestigious law firm, where they inadvertently end up covering a murder themselves.