If you can resist a binge there are plenty of cliffhangers. But in reality, siblings Maya (Siena Kelly) and Jake (Alex Austin) have been framed for murder and are on the run.
This mysterious podcast drama’s second season opens with a vision of 2052 and “it’s a bit like Middle-earth without the orcs or all the boring bits”. This podcast focuses on the events, with brilliant eyewitness accounts shining a light on homophobia and the advent of Aids, but also giving a sense of what a beautiful, fun time it was. When a serial killer struck Montreal’s gay community in the 1990s, the police were slow to investigate, so activists took matters into their own hands. Widely available, episodes weekly from Tuesday What does it mean to be woke? Or a centrist? This intensely researched, discursive podcast from Dorian Lynskey and political columnist Ian Dunt takes a deep dive into the origins of ideas to try to restore something that’s too often missing from their usage: context. Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Rosie O’Donnell inject plenty of fun into the scenes, and a lack of slavish devotion to the original includes Adderall-fuelled attempts to meet lovers in twink-filled nightclubs. This slickly produced, gleefully campy remake of Jane Austen’s novelrevolves round Bennet, a single gay man whose friends are all coupling up.
