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Queer Shows and Films on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime in September 2019


 

Ryan Murphy is king. (At least when it comes to streaming.) This month, two of his series — one old, one new — are hitting streaming platforms: First, there’s the eighth season of his wildly popular anthology series, American Horror Story: Apocalypse, which is somehow being distributed to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime on the exact same day. Then there’s The Politician, the first series to arrive from his massive deal with Netflix. Starring Ben Platt as a headstrong high school senior with dreams of becoming President of the United States, the show is everything you’d ever want from Ryan Murphy, especially if you miss the particular brand of high school chicanery he established a decade ago on FOX’s Glee.

But that’s not all. This September, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime are all offering a whole host of queer content. I’m most excited about the return of the Spanish-language teen soap opera-cum-thriller Élite, but the arrival of the Transparent musical finale and the premiere of NBC’s new sitcom Sunnyside are definitely worth watching, too. If you want to curl up with a movie, there’s Matt Damon’s psychological conman thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, the candy-coated indie lesbian romance Daddy Issues, and Amazon Studios’ excellent (and severely underrated) Late Night, starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. Plus, you’ll have the chance to stream the entire The Matrix trilogy. With the recent announcement that Lana Wachowski is now hard at work creating a fourth installment, it’s the perfect time to revisit.

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The Matrix Trilogy: September 1 on Hulu

When the original Matrix dropped twenty years ago, many were hyper-concerned about what the onset of “Y2K” implied for the world as they knew it. Nothing drastically changed on January 1, 2000, but The Matrix effectively spoke to our techno-dystopian fears, with its vision of a future world on the edge of collapse if not for the intervention of one man, Neo (internet heartthrob Keanu Reeves). Directed by the Wachowski sisters (the duo behind Sense8 and Cloud Atlas), the first Matrix film has truly withstood the test of time. And even though the second and third entries failed to live up to its brilliance, they still delivered impressive CGI work and even better fight sequences.



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