Streaming Queer: October 2024

"American Horror Stories" Season 3

The warning "viewer beware, you're in for a scare" is all we really know about the return of Huluween's "American Horror Stories" this year. The "twisted," seasonally appropriate scary anthology series presents five new "freakish" stand-alone episodes that will explore "horror myths, legends, and lore." The teaser trailer is serving neon-lit gore and terrified asylum screams. This year's cast includes out actors Victor Garber (a Tony and Emmy award winner), Dyllón Burnside (who played Ricky Evangelista on "Pose"), and Jeff Hiller (Joel on "Somebody Somewhere"), alongside Michael Imperioli, Henry Winkler, Debby Ryan, June Squibb, and many more!

"American Horror Stories" premieres October 15 on Hulu.

"Ghosts" Season 4

In "Ghosts" season 4, we reunite with Sam (Rose McIver), who can see and talk to the ghosts in her home since falling down the stairs. We also reunite with her adoring, nerdy chef husband Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), as well as the eclectic, entertaining collection of ghosts who died on their property throughout history. This season we're dealing with a frightening new spirit, a Puritan ghost named Patience (played by Mary Holland, who co-wrote and acted in the sapphic holiday movie "Happiest Season"), who is holding one of the show's gay ghosts, Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), captive.

"Ghosts" Season 4 premieres October 17 on CBS and Paramount+.

"The Lincoln Lawyer" Season 3

Hotshot lawyer, LA foodie, and Lincoln convertible-driving lead Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is fired up to get justice for his dear friend and key witness in a previous case, sex worker Glory Days (Fiona Rene). We welcome a new character in "fitness buff" Eddie Rojas (Allyn Moriyon), who joins the small but mighty Haller team. Izzy (Jazz Raycole), a young, Black, queer woman with a bright future and a strong instinct is one of Mickey's three staff members. Her love life is reflected in the show, which follows her larger goals as a dance teacher in LA, and her story as an ambitious young woman who is in addiction recovery, just like her boss Mickey is. There's a sweet fierceness to their relationship as they quietly support each other's sobriety as best they can while maintaining professionalism.

Though how much professional distance can there really be in a workplace where Mickey is still close with his two ex-wives?

"The Lincoln Lawyer" Season 3 premieres October 17 on Netflix.

"Rivals" Season 1

"Having an opponent makes life much more exciting." And this show is nothing if not exciting! It's also stylish, horny, obnoxious, and rich in scandalous nudity. David Tennant (who leads the series) described "Rivals" as "a little racy," while the show's writer and executive producer, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, has been quoted saying: "We've been equal opportunities in our nudity. There's a willy for every pair of tits." And with that kind of attitude, how could we not tune in? "Rivals" follows TV controller Tony Baddingham (Tennant) and local politician Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell, "The Boys") as their rivalry comes to a head. "Set against the backdrop of the drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England," Hulu says, the show "delves headfirst into the ruthless world of independent television in 1986."

"Rivals" Season 1 premieres October 18 on Hulu.

"What We Do in the Shadows" Season 6

This sixth season of the imaginative, charming comedy will be its finale. The entire main cast will return for this season, and as always, we can expect more fun guest stars to make cameos. Per the official description: "After a very brief stint as a full-blown vampire, Guillermo [queer actor Harvey Guillén] is re-evaluating his life. Who is he if not a familiar who will do anything to please his Master in hopes of one day being turned into a vampire? Meanwhile, the vampires are reevaluating, too. When their former roommate reappears after a 50-year nap, they realize how little they've done in half a century – not one goal accomplished, not one dream pursued, not one part of the New World conquered (except for their street and part of Ashley Street)."

"What We Do in the Shadows" Season 6 premieres October 22 on Hulu.

"Somebody Somewhere" Season 3

This is the final season of hilariously heartwarming, queer-affirming small-town show "Somebody Somewhere." Set in and around Manhattan, Kansas (lead actor Bridget Everett's hometown), where they celebrated "Bridget Everett Day" in 2023, this love letter to queer friendship and to communities where queer people can thrive as their true selves will continue to make us laugh and cry as we reluctantly say goodbye to it. Per the official description, "Somebody Somewhere" follows Sam Miller (Bridget Everett) "grappling with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam's saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders who don't fit in but don't give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere. In Season 3, we see growth against all odds."

"Somebody Somewhere" Season 3 premieres October 27 on Max.

"Time Cut"

Out actress Madison Bailey ("Outer Banks" – which also drops new episodes this month) stars in this sci-fi thriller alongside fellow Netflix series star Antonia Gentry ("Ginny & Georgia"). Lucy (Bailey) is a high school senior and amateur inventor in 2024 who accidentally discovers a time-travel machine (as one does) and decides to travel to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her older sister, Summer (Gentry). Lucy faces the ultimate time-travel question: Can she change the past without destroying the future? And Netflix is having a lot of fun with the early-2000s nostalgia in their marketing: "Can she survive the early '00s and unmask the killer? Or will she say 'Bye Bye Bye'... to her life?!? Only time will tell."

"Time Cut" premieres October 30 on Netflix.