Grab the remote, set your DVR, or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the LGBTQ highlights on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBTQ-inclusive programming on TV.
The fourth and final season of HBO’s hit comedy series Barry premieres this week! The Emmy-winning dark comedy centers on the titular Barry, a former US marine working as a hit man in the Midwest who goes to the West Coast for a job and winds up getting involved in the Los Angeles theatre scene. In the season four trailer, a contemplative Barry sits in the prison cafeteria as he wrestles with his inner demons following his season three finale arrest. Returning characters include NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and his supplier turned lover Cristobal Sifuentes (Michael Irby). Barry, Sundays on HBO.
Dead Ringers, the upcoming thriller series from Amazon Prime, premieres on Friday! The show is a gender-swapped adaptation of the 1988 David Cronenberg film of the same name. It follows twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle as they perform ethically questionable gynecological procedures on infertile women. The pair is also queer, and share everything from drugs to lovers. Dead Ringers, Fridays on Amazon Prime Video
The second season of ABC’s smash hit comedy Abbott Elementary comes to a close on Wednesday. Abbott Elementary celebrates our school system’s unsung heroes and public servants, focusing on a group of dedicated Philadelphia teachers, including the awkward gay history teacher Jacob Hill (Chris Perfetti). In the final episode, the school takes a trip to the Franklin Institute, and presumably chaos ensues. Abbott Elementary, Wednesdays on ABC
Monday, April 17: All American (8pm, The CW); All American: Homecoming (9pm, The CW); Perry Mason (9pm, HBO and HBO Max); Rain Dogs (HBO)
Tuesday: Love Trip: Paris (9pm, Freeform and Hulu); How I Met Your Father (Hulu); I Am Jazz (10pm, TLC); 9-1-1 (8pm, Fox)
Wednesday: Riverdale (9pm, The CW); Ted Lasso (Apple TV+); Survivor 44 (8pm, CBS); The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (Disney+); The Conners (8pm, ABC); Abbott Elementary (9pm, ABC or Hulu); Chicago Fire (9pm, NBC); Snowfall (10pm, FX)
Thursday: Good Trouble (10pm, Freeform); The Upshaws (Netflix); Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+); Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (Paramount+); Sort Of (HBO Max); Station 19 (8pm, ABC); Not Dead Yet (9pm, ABC); A Million Little Things (10pm, ABC); Ghosts (8:30pm, CBS); Grey’s Anatomy (9pm, ABC); Grown-ish (10pm, Freeform or Hulu); Call Me Kat (9:30pm, Fox or Hulu); Doom Patrol (HBO Max); Bel-Air (Peacock); Yellowjackets (Showtime)
Friday: Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. (Disney+); Fire Country (9pm; CBS); Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+); Tiny Beautiful Things (Hulu)
Saturday: SNL (11:30pm, NBC)