Streaming Queer: November 2024

This month's streaming offering is the perfect mix of spooky, eerie, horny college campus fun, and dipping our toes into the holiday season.

We've got a reality show hosted by out "Mean Girls" actor Jonathan Bennett, where 10 hot men compete to earn one lead role in a Hallmark Christmas movie; Colman Domingo stars in a clever, twisty, political thriller about a media pundit who is wrongly accused of murder; and we can finally watch the performance that earned Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón's history-making Best Actress win at Cannes, as she plays Emilia Pérez, the cartel boss who employs a lawyer to help her undergo gender-affirming surgery in secret.

The horny chaos of "The Sex Lives of College Girls" continues as the girls navigate their world of tempting parties, sweet bonding moments, and daunting academic goals. We hope the reimagining of "Cruel Intentions" will match the sexual energy of the cult classic 1999 film.

And the suspenseful, delightfully murderous "Bad Sisters" are back, with their past bubbling up into their lives in the form of a new investigation. November also brings us two Spanish trans-led musicals that played to great success at the Cannes Film Festival, a comedy about a biochemist who develops a compound to help his lesbian best friend stop cheating on her wife, Megan Thee Stallion's vulnerable documentary, and so much more.

Happy Streaming!

"Advanced Chemistry"

This "sexy science comedy" is about Allen (Samba Schutte), a talented biochemist who uses his skills to create a compound that helps his lesbian best friend (played by out actor and comedian Chaunté Wayans) stop cheating on her bisexual wife, Sarah (Sarah Burns). Things do not go as planned, with Sarah feeling suffocated by Marcia's sudden, persistent attention. But when Marcia insists Allen give Sarah a dose too, to balance things out, it somehow makes Sarah fall for him. Disaster! Especially as he needs help from his scientist rival, Lisa (Kiran Deol) – who he's falling for – to set things right.

"Advanced Chemistry" is now streaming On AppleTV+.

"Finding Mr. Christmas" Season 1

Out "Mean Girls" actor Jonathan Bennett hosts this reality show featuring 10 men competing for a leading role in a Hallmark Christmas movie. They'll have to prove their strength, heart, and Christmas spirit, convincing the judges that they have the charm necessary to sweep someone off their feet and have millions around the world swooning over them. The mysterious winner has already filmed the movie alongside Jessica Lowndes ("90210"), which will air on December 21. But first, we can't wait to meet all these hopeful hunks who'll be showing off their muscles, wreath-making skills, and preparing to meet-cute under the mistletoe. The "Finding Mr. Christmas" contestants live together "in a tinsel, tree and stocking-filled Utah ranch house and cheerily compete in festive Yuletide activities," like crafting a Christmas sweater that tells their life story, or bringing down a Christmas tree lumberjack-style.

"Finding Mr. Christmas" Season 1 is now streaming on Hallmark+.

"Arcane" Season 2

When we last we saw champions Vi (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell, "Yellowjackets"), the sisters were, per Netflix, "veering down completely different paths in the looming showdown between Piltover and Zaun." Season 2 will be the final chapter of "Arcane" but, according to co-creator Christian Linke, this is "just the beginning of our larger storytelling journey," and "the first of many stories that we want to tell in Runeterra." Linke goes on to share that season 2 is more expansive, going places we haven't even imagined, picking up "in the aftermath of the explosive events of Season One after Jinx launches a stolen Hextech gemstone at the Piltover council" and exploring the darker sides of the characters. "Sisters Jinx and Vi are far from reconciling," he warns. "Jinx must now reckon with her reckless decision, which may have jeopardized any possibility for resolution between Piltover and Zaun, as well as the effects it will have on her relationship with Vi."

"Arcane" Season 2 premieres November 9 on Netflix.

"Emilia Pérez"

This buzzy, boldly musical film that TimeOut has called "ambitious, audacious, and sure to be polarizing" tells the story of high-powered lawyer, Rita (Zoe Saldaña), who is stuck in a dead-end job and takes on an unexpected assignment: helping a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) fake her death and arrange gender-affirming surgery and a place to hide, freeing her to finally live as her true self: Emilia Pérez. This plan changes not just the lives of Rita and Emilia, but also the life of Emilia's wife, Jessi (Selena Gomez). When lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón won Best Actress for her performance in the titular role at Cannes Film Festival this year, she became the first openly transgender actor ever to do so.

"Emilia Pérez" premieres November 13 on Netflix.

"Bad Sisters" Season 2

Set two years after the "accidental death" of Grace's abusive husband, the Garvey sisters (among them, Sarah Greene's character Bibi, who is queer and married to a woman) may have moved on with their lives, but their murderous past rises to the surface, "the ladies are thrust back into the spotlight, suspicions are at an all-time high, lies are told, secrets revealed and the sisters are forced to work out who they can trust." There's no question that this season will be just as tense, suspenseful, entertaining, and shout-back-at-the-screen emotional as the first season was. We are so ready to once again support the Garvey sisters in all their rights and wrongs.

"Bad Sisters" Season 2 premieres November 13 on AppleTV+.