If you’re missing the 2022 drama, try these five shows
BY YASMIN VINCE, IMAGE BY AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
It’s been two long years since A League Of Their Own was on our screens. The show, following the formation of a women’s professional baseball team during the Second World War, was undeniably fantastic for sapphic representation. Not least because the incredible Abbi Jacobson was both the creator and one of the lead actors in the show.
If, like us, you’ve binged the show multiple times this month alone, here are some other series you’ll love.
No Good Deed
You’ll have to wait until Thursday (12 December) to watch this but that means you can spend the whole weekend bingeing this new Netflix show! No Good Deed follows several couples as they stop at nothing to buy the perfect house.
One of these couples are wives Leslie and Sarah, played by Abbi Jacobson and Poppy Liu, who have loved the house for years and are desperate to buy it. If this pairing isn’t enough, The L Word’s Kate Moennig is also listed as a recurring character, Gwen!
The L Word
Now that we’ve mentioned Kate, we can’t not mention her amazing 2004 series. The L Word (20 years-old this year!) is THE sapphic show. Following a group of lesbian and bi women in West Hollywood, it was one of the first sapphic ensemble shows to appear on TV. Without it, we may never have had A League Of Their Own or any of the other shows on this list.
If you’ve already seen it, as we’re sure many of you have, now could be the perfect time for a re-watch, especially as creator Ilene Cheiken and one of the show’s leads Jennifer Beals have set up a production company together called Run-A-Muck. As we wait for more information about what the company will be working on, a re-watch of The L Word is the perfect activity to give us a flavour of the magic these two can make.
Cobra Kai
One of the alluring elements of A League Of Their Own is that it reimagined an older film with a queer lens. While queerness is not at the centre of Cobra Kai, the show certainly has that nostalgic element of adding to an old favourite, as it acts as a sequel to The Karate Kid films.
It also features a couple queer characters. Moon, a recurring character from series one to six, is bisexual and series four dives into the dynamics between her and Piper Elswith, her ex-girlfriend.
Big Shot
Like A League Of Their Own, this show is a sports-comedy centred on a women’s team. Big Shot follows the basketball team at an elite high school for girls. An incredibly touching relationship in this show is the one between Carolyn “Mouse” Smith, one of the players, and Harper Schapira, an intense journalist at the school.
Minx
Okay, if you take both shows at face value, A League Of Their Own and Minx don’t have a lot in common. But they are more alike than you might think. The latter is a comedy series set in the 1970s, following a woman trying to break into the male-dominated world of political and erotic magazines. So, if what you liked about A League Of Their Own are the period setting or challenges faced by women entering a male-dominated field (pun intended), then Minx is the show for you.
The show also features a fantastic late-in-life lesbian arc between Shelly, a suburban housewife, and Bambi, an ex-model and the “Chief Fun Officer” of the feminist porn magazine at the heart of the show. It does a great job of unpacking the compulsory heterosexuality that Shelly has been dealing with.
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