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.
Season two of Showtime’s explosive survival drama Yellowjackets premieres Thursday this week for Showtime subscribers, and Sunday on the network! Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The ensemble cast features a number of queer characters, including Taissa, Van, and Ben. Queer actors in these roles include Tawny Cypress and Jasmin Savoy-Brown (Taissa) and Liv Hewson (Van). Yellowjackets, Thursdays on Showtime.
The final episode of Amazon’s Daisy Jones & the Six season one airs on Friday! The show follows the fictional band of the same name. In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two heat seeking missiles in Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, they called it quits. Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth. This is the story of how an iconic band imploded at the height of its powers. One of the supporting roles in the show, Simone, is a Black queer woman. Daisy Jones & the Six, Fridays on Amazon Prime.
The finale of Shrinking premieres this Friday on Apple TV+! Shrinking follows a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives, including his own. The show features gay actor Michael Urie as Brian Lorenzo, a lawyer and best friend of the main character, as well as Lorenzo’s partner in the show Charlie, played by out actor Devin Kawaoka. Shrinking, Fridays on Apple TV+
Monday: All American (8pm, The CW); All American: Homecoming (9pm, The CW); Perry Mason (9pm, HBO, HBO Max); Rain Dogs (HBO)
Tuesday: Love Trip: Paris (9pm, Freeform and Hulu); How I Met Your Father (Hulu); I Am Jazz (10pm, TLC); American Auto (8:30pm, NBC); 9-1-1 (8pm, Fox)
Wednesday: 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+); 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: Fire Country (9pm; CBS); Shrinking (Apple TV+); RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV); Daisy Jones & the Six (Amazon Prime)
Saturday: The Owl House (9pm, Disney Channel); SNL (11:30pm, NBC)