Streaming Queer: January 2024

"The Traitors" Season 2

The wildly popular competition show (hosted by queer icon Alan Cumming) is back for its reality-star-studded season of backstabbing, brutal lies, and beautiful chaotic mess. This season's outrageously-random collection of contestants feels like a historic moment in reality TV, even before the extensive lies and secretive games begin. "Ru Paul's Drag Race" performer Peppermint is one of the contestants, alongside a thrilling collection of "Real Housewives," "Love Island," and "Survivor" alums, and a UK politician!

"The Traitors" Season 2 premieres Jan 12 on Peacock.

"True Detective: Night Country " Season 4

Out actors Jodie Foster and Kali Reis lead the upcoming season of this popular anthology crime series. This season, the men that operate a research station in Alaska (specifically, in an isolated town that experiences total 24-hour darkness for weeks at a time) mysteriously disappear, while others are found frozen solid. To solve the case, Detectives Danvers (Foster) and Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness themselves as they try to piece together what happened.

"True Detective: Night Country" premieres Jan 14 on Max.

"Sort Of" Season 3

This will be the final season of "Sort Of," but unlike the many queer faves that were canceled before their time, the "Sort Of" team planned for this to be the final season, so we can expect things to be wrapped up according to their vision. The death of Sabi (Bilal Baig)'s father continues to be the catalyst for change in Sabi's world. Things are about to get shaken up as Sabi embraces the freedom that comes with taking big steps towards feeling more themself, even when it's likely to be inconvenient for their family.

"Sort Of" Season 3 premieres Jan 18 on Max.

"Hazbin Hotel" Season 1

Out actor Stephanie Beatriz ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine") stars in this R-rated animated musical series created by Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano, who is also openly bi, and featuring "the most devilish voices of Broadway." Set in Hell, "Hazbin Hotel" follows Charlie Morningstar (Erika Henningsen), the princess of Hell (as in, Satan is her dad) who dreams of opening a hotel where she can rehabilitate sinners, allowing them one last chance to qualify for Heaven and thereby reducing the population in Hell. The show has many characters across the queer spectrum, and has already been renewed for a second season.

"Hazbin Hotel" Season 1 premieres Jan 19 on Prime Video.

"Expats" Season 1

Written and directed by Lulu Wang ("The Farewell") and adapted from the 2016 novel "The Expatriates," "Expats" follows the lives of various Hong Kong transplants and the people who work for them, seemingly following their lives following a young child going missing. It's giving "Lost in Translation," it's giving "Big Little Lies" set in Hong Kong, and we'll absolutely be seated to see Nicole Kidman in a new wig. Per the official synopsis: "Set against the complex tapestry of Hong Kong residents, "Expats" depicts a multifaceted group of women after a single encounter sets off a chain of life-altering events that leaves everyone navigating the intricate balance between blame and accountability."

"Expats" Season 1 premieres January 26 on Prime Video.

"Feud" Season 2: Capote vs. The Swans

Executive Produced by Ryan Murphy, this season of "Feud" is about acclaimed writer Truman Capote (Tom Hollander), once a confidante to society's most elite women, who he called "the swans." Capote's acts of betrayal (writing thinly-veiled accounts of their personal lives) destroyed those relationships, banishing him from high society and sending him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would never recover. The star-studded cast for this show includes Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, and the late Treat Williams.

"Feud: Capote vs. the Swans" premieres on January 31 on FX, next day on Hulu.