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The L Word (2004 - 2009)

Happy lesbians and sporadic angst, with bonus feminism and social critique

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Cybersix (1999)

Comic book superhero meets genderqueer grim-dark Disney princess. The only high-heeled crime fighter you should accept. Comes with complementary puma and 6-year old super villain. 

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The Musketeers (2014 - three books of material later)

An oscillating state of “D’Artangan stop that” and “Aramis what the fuck have you done”

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Kitchen Nightmares (2007 - don’t eat while watching)

How to convince yourself to never go to a restaurant ever again

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Once Upon A Time (2011 - why)

Your solution to childhood fairy tale nostalgia. Everyone’s related, no one understands the family tree.

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Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare

Why giving your identical twins the same names is not your smartest idea

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Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips (2007)

Greek gods subsist by walking dogs and charging for phone sex. At some point you would assume they would learn to stop turning people into fucking trees

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Dear White People (2014)

Racism 101: Reverse racism still isn’t an actual thing

On-going Assignment: Treat POC like actual human beings 

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Feed - Mira Grant (2010)

Post-zombie-apocalypse US Presidential race. Bloggers save the world and merit hazard pay

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Jurassic World (2015)

Maybe stop bringing back carnivores

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Saga (2012 - when it stops winning all the awards)

I’m not sure that “the spaceship is a tree” sounds good even in theory, but between class warfare, magic swords, truth cats, and the tv-headed ruling class duking out their succession line while a mercenary goes broke and saves a small child from prostitution, you really don’t question it. All morality is grey, keep your horns and your bi-racial babies hidden.

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Rookie Blue (2010 - at least a few more seasons)

Grey’s Anatomy with cops

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Just Between Us (2013 - please never end)

Your weekly dose of Angry Bisexual Insp. and awkward dancing

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X-MEN: The Animated Series (1992-1997)

The 90′s-est of 90′s cartoons. Everything after this has been Marvel never quite reaching up to the bar the series’ opening sequence set

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Supernatural (2005 - probably wouldn't stay dead for long)

So much man-pain and hyper-machoism that it’s unclear whether or not it's actually satire.

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Madam Secretary (2014 - Clinton Campaign season)

Hillary4Prez 2016, the resume edition

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Rat Queens - Vol 1 (2013)

Queer swashbuckling mercenaries go adventuring