Welcome back to “Boobs On Your Tube”! Do you know what we did this week? Watch a lot movies, that’s what! Kayla took this week’s dive into Autostraddle’s lost movie archives and declared that, “Eroticism Isn’t a Distraction in Circumstance — It’s Vital!” Stef watched the infamous Vanessa Hudgens’ property The Princess Switch on Netflix, and was sad to discover out that, in fact, it does not contain a princess switch.
Then it was Holigay Palooza! Heather wrote a review of Happiest Season that will very likely leave you in a puddle of tears sniveling into your sweater. Then Carmen and Shelli had a double hitter for A New York Christmas Wedding — first Carmen with the review, and Shelli with a timeline of her own coming out, set to the movie’s fashion choices.
The weather’s getting colder and the holigay season is going to look a lot different than in years past. But we love you and we’re sending you some warmth and maybe some fun things you can watch to pass these long days.
Notes from the TV Team:
+ Remember last week, when we were so excited about the promotion of Chantal Thuy’s Grace Choi to a season regular on Black Lightning? Well the CW giveth and the CW taketh away. Today it was announced the upcoming fourth season of television’s first major Black-led superhero show will be it’s last. Heather has a lot of very angry thoughts about this (and rightfully so!) that I encourage you to read. — Carmen
+ So, I finally started Cable Girls. After becoming obsessed with Elite I was looking for something similar and I can’t believe no one told me there was a show where a Spanish Quinn Fabray kisses girls!! I’m not very far into it but I would die for Carlotta and hope that never changes. I’ll report back when I’m done! — Valerie Anne
+ Valerie Anne has finally caught up on Coroner and I am busily catching up on Filthy Rich, so we will both be back next week with all the parts of note. — Carmen
+ All Rise returned this week with what I thought was a really strong episode for Simone Missick but without a lot to do for Marg Helgenberger’s Lisa Benner. Fingers crossed that we see more of her this season! — Natalie
Station 19 402: “Wild World”
Station 19 opens right near the top this week with Maya Bishop taking her top off. For her girlfriend, still working mid-shift at the hospital, via FaceTime. Maya? She’s also still mid-shift at the fire station and let me tell you — that little bit of red bra peeking out from beneath her uniform? It’s worth it.
Sadly, sneaky freaky FaceTime calls are starting to lose their appeal. But Maya knows that she messed up with the cheating last season; she doesn’t want to move to fast and risk ruining Carina’s fragile trust. Not that it matters much anyway, Carina doesn’t want to quarantine with Maya as long as Dr. Bailey and Ben are also quarantining apart, because it feels like going against her own boss.
Let me tell you what — Big Pops Ben Warren (who has started to go grey in the off-season? Really leaning into his “dad” nickname around the fire house) tells Carina to snap out of it. He would give anything to be with Bailey right now. If she has someone she loves to help her through this pandemic, then that’s exactly where we should be. Alright, alright, fine – someone order Pops a PFLAG shirt!
At the end of Maya’s next shift, Carina is waiting for her at the station. First of all, the way that Maya’s eyes pop out of her head? And then how she kinda lightly licks her lips, sighs deep, and has to back away to physically restrain herself from breaking quarantine protocols?? There’s nothing on network TV right now like the chemistry sparking between Danielle Savre and Stefania Spampinato, and I know I keep saying it — but that’s only because it is absolutely true.
Maya takes the risk:
“Move in with me. Quarantine is basically just moving in together. But I don’t want to
‘Basically’ do anything with you. I want to do everything… for real.”
Carina smiles bright enough to light a galaxy, that’s all she wanted to hear. She pulls out two COVID tests that she took (ahem, probably stole if we’re being honest) from the hospital, “I’ll do yours if you’ll do mine.”
And by then, Maya can only laugh. How is it that she’s so lucky that her girlfriend even makes nasal swabbing sound sexy? The benefits of dating Dr. Orgasm, I suppose.
PS: Andy has a gay cousin with seemingly tolerant but also possibly homophobic parents. Super excited for a queer Latina and also our third queer woman on the <em>Station 19</em> scorecard. Plus there’s always hot gay Travis, so we’re really starting to rank up those Shondaland numbers!
