

Technical notes: The L Word: Generation Q and Work in Progress also snagged spots on last year’s list and put us in a slight bind for this one: the general rule is that the show must have aired more episodes in 2020 than in 2019, but TLWGQ released 4 in both years.

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The shows on this list were compiled from the votes of Autostraddle TV Team members, and each TV team writer was also invited to make their own Top 5-15. Most devastating of all, though, was saying goodbye to Vida. Unfortunately, many of the new shows we fell for in 2020 were swiftly cancelled: Dare Me, I Am Not Okay With This, Stumptown, Teenage Bounty Hunters, High Fidelity and Party of Five all landed on the chopping block. America, Little Fires Everywhere, Hollywood, Self-Made and Hunters witty first-person aspirants in Feel Good, Gentefied, Vida and Twenties confused teens of I Am Not Okay With This, Trinkets, Utopia Falls, The Wilds and Never Have I Ever and shows that got gayer this year than ever before, including The Chi, Umbrella Academy, Homecoming and Dead To Me. Still, LGBTQ+ inclusion had a solid 2020, with more shows centering our experiences or taking up a lot of ensemble space, including lots of queer characters of color and more non-binary characters than ever before. We had stylized horror like Ratched and The Haunting of Bly Manor historical reckonings from Mrs. Many of the queer-inclusive seasons we were anticipating new seasons from this year were pushed off to next year - Pose, A Black Lady Sketch Show, The Handmaid’s Tale, Russian Doll, Euphoria, Dickinson, Gentleman Jack, The L Word: Generation Q, Work in Progress. What ultimately emerged onto our screens this year was not necessarily a careful balance of content consciously arranged by network executives, but rather a haphazard release of whatever anybody had already finished producing, as soon as they had space to debut it. We googled “what’s new on Netflix” 45 times.

We did remote watch parties to fill a “watching television with my friends” sized hole in our hearts. We did comfort re-watches and ambitious multi-season first-watches. It was a strange year for the television industry - prematurely truncated seasons, retroactive cancellations and long production delays for network and cable programming while streaming networks erratically churned out new content and many humans found themselves spending more time than ever watching television.
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The 10-part series is the latest example of how television is finally embracing the concept that girls can be as “superbad” as the boys. The fraternal twins in “Teenage Bounty Hunters” might be more successful chasing bail jumpers if they weren’t so busy squaring their deeply religious beliefs with their carnal desires.
