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WATCH LIST: Fall TV Premieres Continue With “Will & Grace,” “Superstore,” and “The Cool Kids”

Plus, here's what’s queer on Netflix in October.

In Theaters

Queercore: How to Punk A Revolution

The 1980s birthed an energetic LGBTQ punk movement in music, performance, art, film, and zines. This documentary by director Yony Leyser features interviews with many of its figureheads—and those keeping the torch lit today—including Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Kathleen Hanna, Beth Ditto, Justin Vivian Bond, and many more. Bonus: John Waters also contributes his two cents! (September 28, Altered Innocence)

DVD/Blu-Ray/Video on Demand

The Misandrists

Provocative Canadian director Bruce LaBruce (Gerontophilia, Raspberry Reich) returns with another politics-tinged sexual satire, this time about a boarding school and lesbian feminist separatist group, the Female Liberation Army, lorded over by headmistress Big Mother (Susanne Sachsse). (DVD, Strand)

TV/Streaming

The Cool Kids

A new sitcom from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Charlie Day, The Cool Kids revolves around a clique of friends at a Phoenix retirement home, including gay senior citizen Sid (Leslie Jordan) and no-nonsense newcomer Margaret (Vicki Lawrence). (September 28, FOX)

Will & Grace

Revived last year to fanfare and delight, the iconic queer sitcom returns with some new faces. Will gets a love interest in Matt Bomer, Grace dates David Schwimmer, and Jack (Sean Hayes) has a boyfriend in Brian Jordan Alvarez’s Estefan Gloria. Bonus: keep your eyes peeled for Adam Rippon! (October 4, NBC)

Superstore

Fresh off the successful Crazy Rich Asians, out entertainer Nico Santos resumes his role as Mateo in season 4 of this sitcom about employees of a big box retailer, Cloud 9. The romance and a hookup witnessed by the rest of the store staff, between co-workers Amy (America Ferrara) and Jonah (Ben Feldman), will be followed up on, while Mateo will find himself pursued by his old secret flame, former district manager Jeff (Michael Bunin). (October 4, NBC)

Station 19

The Grey’s Anatomy spin-off about Seattle firefighters, including out and proud bisexual Maya Bishop (Danielle Savre), a former Olympian, picks up after its first season’s cliffhanger ending with the crew’s lives endangered by a skyscraper fire. Tune in to see who made it out alive! (October 4, ABC)

Survivor: David vs. Goliath

Queer writer/director/actor Mike White (Brad’s Status, Chuck & Buck) takes a break from Hollywood comforts and joins team Goliath in this 37th season of the grueling, backstab-y reality competition show. (Wednesdays, CBS)

Jaded

This new, briskly paced eight-episode gay web series stars creator/writer JD Scalzo (Revry’s The Gay Husbands of San Francisco) as Jackson, a millennial navigating San Francisco’s hookup culture. (October 4, Vimeo)

On Netflix in October

Tongue-popping RuPaul’s Drag Race All Star Alyssa Edwards, aka Justin Johnson, heads up her own reality series, Dancing Queen, premiering October 5. And on October 26 gay writer/executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Big Love, Riverdale) brings us another Archie Comics-inspired series and Riverdale spinoff about a teenage witch, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which features a pansexual warlock character (Sabrina’s cousin) played by Chance Perdermo.

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