Need a boost to get over Hump Day? The Hot Sheet is Queerty’s midweek pop culture catch-up, highlighting the entertainment stories everyone’s talking about, the ones you might’ve missed, and the notable LGBTQ+ film & TV releases in the days ahead. Here’s everything you need to stay in-the-know:
What To Watch This Week
- The Challenge: Cutthroat, Season 42 — Streaming (Paramount+): The MTV reality series brings back plenty of fan-favorite competitors, like out Cheer star Justin Hinsley again vying for the prize.
- The Dressing Room, Season 2 — Streaming (OUTtv): A comedy about the backstage life of fictional touring musical Balloon Boy, with cameos from Laura Bell Bundy, Eric McCormack & more.
- Rhythm Is A Dancer — Now Available (VOD): Lauren Caster writes, directs & stars in this dramedy about a woman raised by her lesbian mother who finally has a chance to meet her biological dad.
- The Shards — Streaming (Hulu): Ryan Murphy brings Bret Easton Ellis’s lurid mystery novel to the screen, the story of a killer stalking a group of spoiled teens in early 1980s Los Angeles.
- Sterling Point — Streaming (Amazon Prime Video): My Old Ass director Megan Park helms this coming-of-age melodrama about a young woman who inherits her grandfather’s island in Canada.
- Ted Lasso, Season 4 — Streaming (AppleTV+): The comedy returns with the titular coach (Jason Sudeikis) working for a women’s soccer team—maybe that means things will get a little gayer???
- The Big Cheese — Aug. 7 (NYC Theaters): A doc following American cheesemongers—including nonbinary ‘monger Lilith Spencer—as they prepare to compete in France’s “Olympics Of Cheese.”
- Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma — Aug. 7 (Theaters): Hannah Einbinder & Gillian Anderson play a young director & her “Final Girl” muse in Jane Schoenbrun’s psychosexual drama.
