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06.27.21
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This week: WTF TV

It’s been too hot to think, too hot to write, too hot to… well OK it’s definitely not too hot to watch TV and scroll through social media. The Chair is taking the week off to cool down, but just had to share some recent TV trailers that have us feeling like..

ummm.. what?

First up is Q-Force — a new animated superhero show on Netflix, featuring… wait for it… “a team of LGBTQ superspies.” Produced by Will and Grace’s Sean Hayes, featuring a cast of actual gay folks (imagine that!), and a superhero named “Twink” — we’re not sure what to think…

Check it out for yourself:

And if that wasn’t enough, we also have this new offering from Apple TV+ — the all singing-all dancing musical bonanza known as Schmigadoon. Don’t get us wrong, we are here for Cecily Strong, underrated SNL goddess that she is… but this is just… beyond:

We have a feeling there is a follow up blog post to come covering both of these…. let’s just say… wildcards.

STAY TUNED!!

05.16.21
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Passing Grade

As the spring semester concludes, The Chair is eyeball deep in reading his student’s final screenplays and TV pilots.  So in his temporary absence this week he suggests the coolest and gayest thing on the internet – Elton John and Olly Alexander (lead singer of the group, Years and Years) doing their remake of the classic Pet Shop Boys hit “It’s A Sin.”  


Alexander starred this year in Russell Davies’ insightful HBO Max five episode limited series, “It’s A Sin,” set at the height of the AIDS epidemic. That story chronicled four friends in what the Chair still considers the worst decade of the twentieth century – the 1980s. (Check out the Chair’s take here).


But this performance takes that eighties tune to a whole new post modern level and raises it to an ironic anthem of defiance.  Even better, all proceeds from this version will go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.


It’s campy, ferocious and most importantly faaaaaabulous.

You’re welcome. A+ from the Chair.

Till next week…