Streaming Queer: December 2024

"Queer Eye" Season 9

Karamo saying "Girl, have you seen Jeremiah?" in the trailer for this ninth season of the "Queer Eye" reboot is so real! The gorgeous, talented interior designer joins the Fab Five in this season's big shakeup: Renovation extraordinaire Bobby Berk has left the show. Jeremiah, who is married to fellow interior designer Nate Berkus, with whom he shares two kids and has worked together on several HGTV shows, is more than qualified for the heartwarming ride of these life-changing transformative weeks. This season, they're in Las Vegas, meeting heroes that range, per the synopsis, "from a former showgirl struggling to regain her confidence to a dedicated librarian in need of a change."

"Queer Eye" Season 9 premieres December 11 on Netflix.

"No Good Deed" Season 1

From out lesbian producer Liz Feldman, creator of "Dead to Me," comes this dark comedy about couples competing to buy "a dream house that might be a nightmare." The sellers are a couple (played by Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano) who must keep their dark secrets about this house to themselves and away from prying eyes so that they can sell it. Out actors Abbi Jacobson and Poppy Liu play a married queer couple in this cut-throat fight to buy their prime piece of LA real estate. Despite the increasing number of red flags, the picture-perfect home is in an affluent neighborhood that the couples are all willing to fight for access to. "The L Word" actor and out lesbian Kate Moennig plays a "beautiful, sharp, and aloof high-end developer," while comedian Matt Rogers is "the gregarious, charming, and slightly smug realtor" handling the sale of this home. He's "acutely aware of the gem he has on his hands" and knows exactly how to keep prospective buyers interested in this very lucrative property.

"No Good Deed" Season 1 premieres December 12 on Netflix.

"Elton John: Never Too Late"

This documentary showcases never-before-seen concert footage of music legend and queer icon Elton John, including hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family. Co-directed by R.J. Cutler (who made the recent Martha Stewart doc on Netflix) and Elton John's husband, David Furnish, "Never Too Late" follows Elton John as he looks back on his 50-year career in an "emotionally charged, intimate and uplifting full-circle journey. Elton takes us back in time and recounts the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of his early years and how he overcame adversity, abuse and addiction to become the icon he is today."

"Elton John: Never Too Late" premieres December 13 on Disney+.

"Laid" Season 1

Starring and executive produced by out actor Stephanie Hsu, this series deals with a perplexing situation: The queer lead character's "body count" (sexual) is quickly turning into a body count (literal deaths). Realizing there's somehow a link between her sleeping with them and their sudden, bizarre, accidental deaths, Ruby (Hsu) decides to go and warn each of her exes. The official "Laid" logline says it's "a f**ked up rom-com where the answer to 'why can't I find love, is there something wrong with me?' is a resounding, 'Yes. There is. The problem is definitely you.'" It's giving Zoë Kravitz's 2020 series "High Fidelity" – but with life or death implications. We can't wait!

"Laid" Season 1 premieres December 19 on Peacock.

"Cuckoo"

In this new horror film, trans actress Hunter Schafer is a powerhouse as an increasingly disturbed and disoriented 17-year-old named Gretchen. After her mother's death, she moves from the States with her mother to a resort in the German Alps with her father and his new family. Despite their home being on a resort, it's anything but tranquil – there are strange noises, weird, bloody visions she's been having, and her father's creepy boss who takes an "interest" in Gretchen's half-sister Alma, who does not speak. "It's a goofy, gory horror romp unlike anything you've ever seen," says Collider. "If you let the cast and its creator guide you into its distinct vision, it has the power to be one of the best and boldest horror films of the year."

"Cuckoo" premieres December 17 on Hulu.