What makes a great TV scene? The payoff of seasons-long romantic tension? The perfect needle drop in a climactic moment?

Plus updates on Beverly Hills 90210, Claws, Bachelor in Paradise, and Ambitions!

Pretty Little Liars: Summer School wraps up with a big reveal and an affirmation of Ash as a perfect boyfriend beyond suspicion and Fatima returns to The Chi for its drama-stacked Friendsgiving episode!

These are our picks for the best TV shows of 2023 with LGBTQ+ women and/or trans characters.

Ellie from The Last of Us, Juliette and Calliope from First Kill, Rue and Jules from Euphoria, Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Tara, Pretty Little Liar’s Maya St. Germain, and more teen rebels who need your vote!

We’ve got a biopic about a queer Italian rock star, a queer high school prom movie, a misanthropic lesbian journalist in a dark crime comedy set in Ireland, new seasons of We Are Lady Parts, Hacks and Acapulco and so much more! (Really!)

Our TV Team has voted and these are our picks for the Best TV Shows of 2021 with lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans characters.

Plus! Updates on Nancy Drew, Only Murders in the Building, grown-ish, and The Chi!

Gay grown-ups! More trans characters! One our faves comes out as asexual! Get ready to have your own personal heart wrapped up in a warm hug!

Over the past three years, as the U.S. has plummeted even deeper into anti-LGBTQ hysteria, The Owl House has become a beacon of hope and joy for queer and trans kids.

We’ve got the return of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a super-queer Australian teen series, Netflix’s campy dark comedy flick “Do Revenge,” Beth Ditto in country music drama “Monarch,” Rachel Bloom starring as a lesbian TV writer in Hulu’s “Reboot” and so much more!

Jenna Lyons is already bringing gay mischief to RHONY.

Plus the Drew Crew’s nonbinary babe ain’t afraid of no ghosts!

We’ve got Lena Hedley topping women in space, Josie Totah playing queer in a delightful period piece, the “Black Cake” adaptation, the lesbian pregnancy thriller on Lifetime, new seasons of Selling Sunset and Rap Sh!t, and more!

The most pressing question to come out of San Diego Comic-Con.

Plus updates on How I Met Your Father!

Pretty Little Liars: Summer School celebrates Pride by protesting the hell house while Noa’s gotta make a choice, ‘The Chi’ gets even gayer with mixed results and Criminal Minds returns with ex-girlfriend drama!

As someone who has fallen for oblivious girls, or helped girls I was crushing on find the perfect thing to say to the boy of their dreams, I found it all surprisingly grounded in reality considering it was about a demon from hell and the literal first woman on Earth.

Throughout the show, we see Isaac’s journey as someone who is aroace.

This is the greatest television show of all time.