Welcome to your Monday Pop Culture Fix, my friends! Wishing you a week of good and sweet and gentle things arriving in unexpected ways!
+ The Cut’s new EIC, Lindsay Peoples Wagner, hosted a dinner party in Malibu with Lena Waithe, Melissa King, Cynthia Erivo, and a bunch of Porsches (the cars, not de Rossi). There’s plenty to see about this event on Instagram (and also in Autostraddle’s Slack, but I can only share one of those things with you.)
+ Jodie Whittaker’s exiting the TARDIS. I gotta be honest, I expected more actual queerness from her tenure.
+ Rosie has joined the new A League of Their Own TV series.
+ The trailer for the final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
+ Dolly Parton shares her way of honoring Whitney Houston’s legacy after her death.
+ Clea DuVall joins Showtimes First Lady anthology series as “Malvina ‘Tommy’ Thompson: Eleanor Roosevelt’s trusted assistant, secretary, traveling companion, gatekeeper and dear friend.”
+ How Fear Street delivered the complicated queer relationship horror fans deserve.
+ Robin Roberts’ Disney+ interview series is here, and it includes sit-downs with Raven and Tig Notaro.
+ The best TikToks from The Olympics.
+ Simone Biles, TV, and ‘Ted Lasso’: Unlikely Allies in Mental Health Awareness. (This is an excellent podcast by queer TV critic Libby Hill.)
+ 🦇
May this ignite fearlessness in every child’s dream! 🦇 #Batwoman pic.twitter.com/chIh1o0fjm
— Javicia Leslie (@JaviciaLeslie) July 30, 2021
Very important to note that Clea Duvall will be playing opposite Gillian Anderson as the “close friends” Tommy and Eleanor.