SPOILER WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS FULL OF SPOILERS INCLUDING THE SERIES FINALE

Watching the final episode of CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend yesterday evening, I felt an overwhelming surge of emotion and affection for the show, its characters, and its ground-breaking approach to complex issues. The finale did exactly what a good finale should, the Eleven O'Clock number the perfect emotional turning point to herald the end of the series. The finale gave the stories of key characters satisfying conclusions and, fittingly, the end marked a beginning for Rebecca Bunch, whose story is central to the series. It didn’t throw any last-minute curve-balls and it felt narratively consistent with Rebecca’s journey in the final season.

I decided to return to the first episode after finishing the last, and it heightened my sense that the series did a terrific job coming full circle. It gave us an ending that offered substantial character growth and enough open endings to afford fans the freedom to imagine what might come next, without feeling incomplete. The series follows New York City lawyer Rebecca Bunch—played by series co-creator Rachel Bloom—as she embarks on a quest for true happiness, something she believes can be found in that crazy little thing called love. If you're after the too long; don't read version, the first season’s catchy and cartoonish Theme​ provides a handy overview as well as offering an early example of the show’s meta strategies and tongue-in-cheek willingness to poke fun at itself and its characters.

​This article contains spoilers for The L Word, spoilers up to and including Season 6 of Pretty Little Liars and a spoiler for The 100.

I have some thoughts on the proposed return of The L Word and most of them are not particularly good. I want to preface this by saying I know that the show was enormously important to lots of people and I don’t want to take that away. I also know that it was a welcome shift in a post Queer as Folk world for a show to focus so exclusively and explicitly on female sexuality and same sex desire. I don’t want to write a polemic on something that made queer female experience visible in a way which provided enormous support for some viewers. The show talked openly about many aspects of female sexuality, it challenged heteronormative relationship constructs and addressed political issues of its time, such as the U.S. military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. However, I have some serious reservations about the handling of bisexuality and trans experience in the show and in this piece I revisit and expand upon some thoughts I touched on an earlier piece What About the 'B' Word? about bivisibility in mainstream television.

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I feel like I've been waiting years for my first glimpse of Looking: The Movie, the film which picks up where the HBO series finished off, following its cancellation at the end of its second season in March 2015.  For those who are unfamiliar with the show, Looking focused on the lives and loves of a group of gay men living in San Francisco. Jonathan Groff's character, Patrick, is the focal point of the show and Groff has previously stated in interviews that the show was an exploration of male intimacy - from casual sex to love to friendship and everything in between.