Streaming Queer: February 2025

February's streaming offering is giving us drama, documentaries, and mysterious deaths.

This month, we reunite with long-running show "Survivor," and celebrate 50 years of "SNL" history. We've got a Sephora-produced 'get ready with me' documentary series featuring Chappell Roan and Victoria Monét, Kate Hudson is thrust unexpectedly into the lead role in her family's basketball franchise, and a documentary made with rarely seen footage provided by the family of Luther Vandross.

We've also got new shows like "Drag House Rules" which is serving "The Traitors" Drag Edition; food travel series "No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski" with celebrity guests exploring the history behind their family recipes; and heartwarming family comedy "Clean Slate," which stars Laverne Cox as a radiant, incredible trans woman who returns to her hometown and experiences all the coming-of-age father-daughter moments they missed when she was younger. Fan favorites "Yellowjackets" and "The White Lotus" return for a dose of death, drama, and dancing around the truth. There's lots to dive into and so much escapism to enjoy. Happy streaming!

"Faces of Music" Season 1

"Faces of Music" Season 1 is now streaming on Hulu.

"SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night" Season 1

This four-part docu-series honors the legacy of comedy show "Saturday Night Live." Each episode dives into the history of its most iconic eras, including a spotlight on the audition process, writer's room, the sketches that became part of American history, and the pivotal 11th season. "Beyond Saturday Night" features over 60 contributors, including SNL alumni over decades of "SNL" history. We'll be celebrating queer comedian Kate McKinnon's role in all this.

"SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night" Season 1 is now streaming on Peacock.

"Apple Cider Vinegar" Season 1

This series is based on a real story of the slippery slope of wellness influencers, and the woman who, in the early days of Instagram's popularity, faked cancer to scam her audience. The official synopsis: "Two young women (Kaitlyn Dever playing Belle Gibson, and Alycia Debnam-Carey as her best friend and fellow wellness influencer Milla Blake.) advocate for wellness remedies to 'cure' deadly illnesses, unraveling their lives as they unknowingly –and knowingly– mislead the world." "The Bold Type" actor Aisha Dee plays a supporting role for both wellness grifter leads, especially as their stories begin to unravel. Netflix informs us that we "might know Gibson as the health influencer who claimed she cured her cancer with a healthy diet, all while never having cancer at all."

"Apple Cider Vinegar" Season 1 premieres February 6 on Netflix.

"Clean Slate" Season 1

From legendary producer Norman Lear comes the trans TV series everyone's been rejoicing over. A trans story not rooted in trauma or death, and instead told through heartfelt family energy and sweet comedy –with a radiant, confident, incredible trans woman at its heart. Laverne Cox co-created the show and plays Desiree, the already-iconic lead character, who goes back to her hometown, where her father, Harry (George Wallace), an old-school, outspoken car-wash owner in Alabama, "has a lot of soul searching to do when the estranged child he thought was a son returns as a proud, trans woman." Her homecoming "brings together a hilarious cast of friends and neighbors, as Desiree and Harry try to get it right the second time around," finding themselves "facing all of the hilarious coming-of-age milestones they missed out on the first time around."

"Clean Slate" Season 1 premieres February 6 on Prime Video.

"Luther: Never Too Much"

With insights and stories from old friends, industry colleagues, and permission from both Sony Music and Vandross' family (who granted director Dawn Porter access to 80 hours of rehearsal footage, 150 hours of archival footage, and over 2,000 exclusive images) this documentary is an exploration into R&B superstar Luther Vandross' lifestyle, love of music, and the legacy of his art –including insights into what it meant to make music that powered romance when he was living what's now understood to be a closeted life. Slate reports that "archival footage shows interviewers pressing Vandross about his sexuality. He stridently refused to confirm or deny any rumors about his personal life, saying that he owed fans only his talent and hard work." But, the publication continues, "at nearly every turn, the documentary reveals Vandross to be a person whose taste and sensibilities are instantly recognizable to many a gay man as, well, himself. It makes a compelling case for gay men to embrace Vandross as one of our own."

"Luther: Never Too Much" premieres February 8 on Max.

"Yellowjackets" Season 3

Whatever your Valentine's Day plans are, you can come home to celebrate the occasion with dual-timeline sapphic suspense and gory survivalist storytelling. The season 2 finale ended with the stranded "Yellowjackets" teenagers in 1996 left without shelter after theirs mysteriously burned down, while the ritualistic feasts and Antler Queen drama persists. As adults, the plane crash survivors are still reeling from the trauma, still being threatened by someone who knows what really happened out there, and still keeping gruesome secrets. We cannot wait to learn what we'll uncover from their time in the wilderness, and look forward to seeing how much more unhinged and bloody everything will get in both timelines. Hilary Swank joins the cast this season!

"Yellowjackets" Season 3 premieres February 14 on Paramount+.

"SNL50: The Homecoming Concert"

"SNL50: The Homecoming Concert" streams live on Peacock on February 14.

"The White Lotus" Season 3

After first welcoming us in Hawaii, then traveling to in Italy, "The White Lotus" now takes us to Thailand. Natasha Rothwell returns as spa manager Belinda, who has come to this elite escapist venue filled with rich people to "learn everything [she] can and bring the magic back to Maui." Of course everyone's trying to have the relaxing, refreshing vacation they feel they deserve, while keeping secrets that will threaten one or all of their lives. Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and BLACKPINK singer Lisa are among the stars we can't wait to see in this duplicitous, deliciously dramatic world.

"The White Lotus" Season 3 premieres 16 February on Max.

"Drag House Rules" Season 1

"Seven queens, one house, what could go wrong?" A new drag competition franchise begins this year, with "Drag House Rules" where seven drag queens live under one roof, "battling it out in a competition full of alliances, betrayals, and jaw-dropping moments." Starring Jujubee, Tammie Brown, Manila Luzon, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Laganja Estranja, Rock M Sakura, and Biqtch Puddin', "Drag House Rules" is kinda serving "The Traitors" Drag Edition: Queens are eliminated one by one through a group vote, until only the winner remains. "What begins as a glamorous, high-stakes competition quickly unravels into pure, unpredictable chaos. Secrets are exposed and alliances crumble as the queens fight to stay on top – in ways no one saw coming." What could this possibly mean? We could not be more seated for this show so that we can find out.

"Drag House Rules" Season 1 premieres 21 February on OUTtv.

"Survivor" Season 48

In the 25th year of this iconic, adventurous reality competition show, host Jeff Probst welcomes 18 new castaways for Season 48 of "Survivor." The players competing for the $1 million prize and the title of Sole Survivor include a stunt performer, a pizzeria owner, a man who alleges his bulging biceps are a result of drinking copious amounts of chocolate milk, and the first contestant with a speech impediment in the show's history.

"Survivor" Season 48 premieres February 26 on CBS with episodes airing on Paramount+ the day after.

"No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski" Season 1

Celebrity guests Henry Golding, James Marsden, Florence Pugh, Issa Rae and Justin Theroux (and more!) join "Queer Eye" food guy Antoni Porowski on this "captivating culinary adventure," filled with experiences that unravel the intertwined wealth of culture, history, and identity found in national dishes and treasured family recipes. "From the mouthwatering origins of Theroux's family pasta in Italy to the vibrant flavors of Awkwafina's Korean heritage," this travel series takes Porowski on a journey to once-in-a-lifetime meals, where he dines with royalty, battles unpredictable off-road adventures, and shares "surprising revelations that offer a delicious glimpse into the stories that shape us all."

"No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski" Season 1 premieres February 24 on Hulu.

"Running Point" Season 1

This Mindy Kaling-produced sports comedy filled with sibling shenanigans stars Kate Hudson as unlikely "business b*tch," Isla Gordon. After Isla's older brother messes up very publicly, he unexpectedly appoints her as the new owner of the family business, "the greatest basketball franchise in the history of the game," the Los Angeles Waves. Fish-out-of-water and 'first woman to do this' feminist fun ensues, and we'll likely have some heartwarming "Ted Lasso" energy as she gets the hang of the job and people start taking her seriously (everyone except Chet Hanks, apparently.) Max Greenfield ("New Girl") plays Isla's fiancé, and Brenda Song is Ali Lee, the Waves' chief of staff who has known Isla since they shared a dorm in college. It's giving "The Righteous Gemstones;" it's giving entirely comedic "Succession;" it's giving "The Other Two" star Drew Tarver another role as a supportive but self-centered brother (and the Waves' CFO) who thinks he knows better than everyone (and often actually does.)

"Running Point" Season 1 premieres February 27 on Netflix.