July gave us the last ever masseria kisses and Charlie’s goodbye, so we forgive August for trying to fill the hole. And it’s trying hard. This month brings Ted Lasso in his most sapphic era yet (women’s football, need we say more), a blood-soaked lesbian slasher romance from the mind behind I Saw the TV Glow, Kristen Stewart’s stoner comedy directed by her wife, and Vicky Krieps fighting for her kid. We’ve rounded up the best queer and sapphic releases hitting screens across the UK and US this month – grab the AC remote, here’s what to clear your schedule for.
Lioness series 3 – Paramount+ (2 August)
Taylor Sheridan’s high-octane spy thriller is back, and Zoë Saldaña’s Joe is once again walking the line between the mission and her marriage. This season pulls her into a web of hidden networks, foreign operatives and personal betrayals, with Nicole Kidman’s Kaitlyn and Michael Kelly’s Westfield steering her towards enemies working in the shadows – and a war that’s crept into every corner of her life.
It’s not a sapphic show, but it belongs on any list of women-led telly worth your time: a cast stacked with women at the centre of the action, doing the kind of morally murky, high-stakes work usually handed to the men. Tense, glossy and built for a binge.
Watch on: Paramount+ worldwide from 2 August.
Ted Lasso series 4 – Apple TV (5 August)
Yes, we know, it’s a comeback nobody fully believed until the trailer dropped. But here’s why it’s earned a spot on this list: Ted’s back at Richmond, and this time he’s coaching a second division women’s football team, the Lady Greyhounds. Women’s football is the gayest sport on earth and everyone knows it, so a full season of Ted Lasso heart applied to the women’s game is exactly the kind of thing we didn’t know we needed.
The 10-episode final season reunites Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein and Brendan Hunt, with new faces including Tanya Reynolds and Faye Marsay joining the squad. Expect the usual biscuits-and-feelings formula, plus pay disparity, media sexism and the fight for legitimacy in women’s sport all on the pitch. Appointment telly for anyone still mourning the Lionesses’ off-season.
Watch on: Apple TV worldwide, new episodes every Wednesday from 5 August through to the finale on 7 October.
Sterling Point series 1 – Prime Video (5 August)
If you like your coming-of-age with a lakeside cottage and a slow-burn crush, this is your August binge. Seventeen-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin) inherits a remote island in Canada from the estranged grandfather she was never allowed to meet, and heads north to dig into her family’s buried secrets – finding new friends, first love and an unexpected sense of belonging along the way.
Article continues below.
From The O.C. and Gossip Girl masterminds Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and directed by Megan Park (My Old Ass), it’s smart, sweet and refreshingly queer – the sapphic yearning storyline gets nearly as much room as Annie’s pull towards the local boys, so this isn’t a case of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it representation. All eight episodes drop at once, ready for a weekend on the sofa.
Watch on: Prime Video worldwide from 5 August.
You may also like: 20+ best lesbian shows and TV series to watch
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – UK cinemas (7 August)
The one you’ve already seen the clips of. From Jane Schoenbrun, the writer-director behind I Saw the TV Glow, comes a trans and sapphic slasher that’s equal parts gory and horny. A young director (Hannah Einbinder of Hacks) sets out to resurrect a washed-up horror franchise, and when she tracks down the original film’s reclusive final girl (Gillian Anderson), the two women tumble into a blood-soaked spiral of desire, fear and delirium.
The Einbinder-Anderson chemistry is the entire internet’s business right now, and the supporting cast is queer as anything – Jack Haven, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Quintessa Swindell all show up. Refreshingly not a reboot, unless you count the one happening inside the plot.
Watch in: UK cinemas from 7 August.
Love Me Tender – UK cinemas (7 August)
For when you want your sapphic cinema with a lump in your throat. Based on Constance Debré’s bestselling novel, Love Me Tender follows Clémence (Vicky Krieps), a woman forced to prove she’s a fit mother to her own child – simply because she’s queer. It’s a raw, furious look at motherhood, identity and a system stacked against you, and Krieps is exactly the actor you want carrying it.
Watch in: UK cinemas from 7 August.
The Wrong Girls – cinemas (14 August)
WLW power couple content, on and off screen. Kristen Stewart stars alongside Alia Shawkat in a stoner buddy comedy written and directed by Stewart’s wife, Dylan Meyer. Two broke, aimless best friends living bong rip to bong rip accidentally gain telepathic powers after an experimental drug, and chaos – sorry, mayhem – follows. The supporting cast is stacked: Cate Blanchett, LaKeith Stanfield and Seth Rogen all turn up.
Watch in: US cinemas from 14 August, with a UK release to follow – we’ll shout the moment a date lands.
Revival series 1 – Netflix (24 August)
For our US crew: the cult horror-noir Revival lands all ten episodes on Netflix this month, and if you missed its original run, now’s the time. Based on the Image Comics series by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton, it’s set in small-town Wisconsin on the day the recently dead rise from their graves – except these aren’t your standard shuffling zombies. The revived come back with their memories, their personalities and the ability to heal from wounds that should kill them, which makes for a very different kind of nightmare.
Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp) leads as officer and single mum Dana Cypress, thrown into a brutal murder mystery in a town where everyone, living or revived, is a suspect – and where her own younger sister Em (Romy Weltman) is one of the returned. It’s smart, eerie and character-led, sitting somewhere between detective drama and supernatural horror. The Netflix drop is also a bit of a lifeline: a season 2 hasn’t been confirmed, so strong numbers here could be what gets it renewed.
Watch on: Netflix (US) from 24 August. Heads up – this is a US-only drop for now, with no UK date confirmed. Become a Nonchalant VIP and we’ll let you know the moment it crosses the Atlantic.
Adults series 2 – Disney+ (28 August)
The messy twenty-somethings are back. This ensemble comedy follows a friend group fumbling through fake IDs, boring office jobs they secretly love, and the art of asking for change while needing everything to stay exactly the same. It’s a queer show, though the sapphic thread runs quieter than the boys’ storylines – still, season one left Billie in interesting territory, and with Raven-Symoné guest starring this time, there’s room for more. Easy, low-stakes summer viewing.
Watch on: Disney+ (UK) from 28 August. In the US it’s on Hulu.
Other queer releases on our radar
A few more worth flagging this month. For the readers whose ideal August is books, iced coffee and a slow-burn crush, Books, Iced Coffee & a Side of Dragons (out 25 August) is Amanda Lovelace’s debut graphic novel – a sugary-sweet sapphic summer romance set on the Jersey Shore, where a struggling bookshop owner falls for the trans woman running the coffee shop next door, with a mischievous baby dragon playing cupid. Cosy-fantasy fans, this one’s for you. On screen, Don’t Say Good Luck (Netflix, 14 August) is a musical starring bisexual icon Stephanie Beatriz alongside Yellowjackets’ Melanie Lynskey, and Holy Days (UK cinemas, 14 August) hands Miriam Margolyes a nun’s habit, which is really all we need to hear. For the camply inclined, Stop! That! Train! (UK cinemas, 21 August) packs Drag Race legends into a disaster-movie parody, while Stamptown (Netflix, 25 August) brings clown chaos courtesy of bisexual host Zach Zucker.
See you on the sofa.
Nonchalant x
In case you missed it: Your queer TV guide for July 2026
You may also like
This article was written by one of our creative team writers here at Nonchalant Magazine.
