We said November was where it gets very gay, and it delivers. Quinn Shephard’s lesbian Catholic-school psychodrama The Body finally lands on Netflix, Yellowjackets signs off for good, The Hunting Wives are back just in time for Thanksgiving, and Black Doves returns on Bonfire Night with our favourite assassin couple getting more screen time. Over here, a sapphic flatshare comedy has quietly landed on Channel 4.
We’ve rounded up the best sapphic releases hitting screens across the UK and US this month, with the sapphic-adjacent picks (the gays included too) saved for our honourable mentions at the end. Kettle on, phone down, here’s what to watch.
It Gets Worse – Channel 4 (out now) and Paramount+ (6 November)
Last month we said Leo Reich’s A24 comedy would land on Channel 4 later in the year. It snuck out while we weren’t looking. Three best friends in their twenties get evicted from their London flat after a year of dead-end jobs and even worse dates, and have to work out how to stay friends in a city that seems to want them gone.
Olive Gray plays Sam, a lesbian whose post-eviction living situation and run of disastrous situationships are some of the best bits. Reich’s Ethan is gay, Emily Fairn completes the trio, and Andrew Scott turns up as a therapist in a scene the internet has not recovered from. Half-hour episodes, very London, very easy to finish in one night.
Watch on: Channel 4’s streaming service in the UK now, all six episodes. In the US, it premieres on Paramount+ on Friday 6 November 2026.
Black Doves series 2 – Netflix (5 November)
Helen (Keira Knightley) is still passing state secrets to the Black Doves while her husband edges towards becoming Prime Minister, and Sam (Ben Whishaw) is back in London. But we’re here for Williams (Ella Lily Hyland), the lesbian hitwoman who spent series one still sore at Sam for killing her previous partner, and her deadpan new partner-in-crime Eleanor (Gabrielle Creevy). The pair stole series one, and we’re hoping for plenty more of them this time round.
Sarah Lancashire returns as Reed, with Neve Campbell and Samuel Barnett among the new faces. All six episodes drop on Bonfire Night, which feels about right for a show with this many explosions.
Watch on: Netflix in the UK and US from Thursday 5 November 2026, all six episodes. Series 1 is on there too if you need a refresher.
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Mouse – US cinemas (6 November)
For our US crew. It’s 2002 in suburban Arkansas, and shy Minnie (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) has spent her whole life in the shadow of her magnetic best friend Callie (Chloe Coleman). When their friendship is suddenly upended the summer before senior year, Minnie forms an unexpected bond with Callie’s mother, played by Sophie Okonedo.
It’s the new film from Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson (Saint Frances, Ghostlight), it was a hit at the Berlinale, and it’s quietly queer, with Minnie falling for Kat (Iman Vellani), the girl who works at the local video shop. David Hyde Pierce co-stars.
Watch in: Select US cinemas from Friday 6 November 2026, going wider on 13 November. No UK date yet.
The Body – Netflix (11 November)
Our most anticipated show of the month. From Quinn Shephard (Under the Bridge), The Body follows a badly behaved Catholic-school dance team whose initiation goes wrong on Halloween night. Soon the girls are having prophetic visions, and the whole town is in a frenzy.
At its centre is Anya (Kristina Bogic) and her intensely charged relationship with her mean, gay best friend Elise (Sara Boustany). Shephard has named Carrie, Jennifer’s Body, Heavenly Creatures and Mean Girls as inspiration. Oh, and The Traitors US winner Gabby Windey plays the dance coach.
Watch on: Netflix in the UK and US from Wednesday 11 November 2026, all eight episodes.
Yellowjackets season 4 – Paramount+ (20 November)
This is it. In the fourth and final season, rescue is finally close and the survivors are racing to bury what happened in the woods. Meanwhile, in the present day, an old flame rolls back into town with plans of her own. We have theories.
Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Liv Hewson and Sophie Thatcher are among the returning cast, Hilary Swank is back, and Molly Ringwald and June Squibb join for the final run. It’s been one of the queerest shows on telly since 2021, and we’ll be treating every episode accordingly.
Watch on: Paramount+ from Friday 20 November 2026 (you’ll need the Premium plan in the US). Seasons 1 to 3 are on there to catch up.
The Hunting Wives season 2 – Netflix (26 November)
Our favourite toxic Texan sapphics are back. Season 2 opens with Sophie (Brittany Snow) and Margo (Malin Akerman) on the outs, with Sophie trying to patch up her marriage. That lasts about as long as you’d expect: old secrets and new enemies drag them back together, and the trailer suggests straight back into Margo’s bathtub.
There’s a murder, obviously. John Stamos joins the cast, WNBA star Angel Reese pops up, and it’s already been renewed for a third season, so go ahead and get attached.
Watch on: Netflix in the UK and US from Thursday 26 November 2026, all eight episodes.
Tangles – US cinemas (27 November)
Bring tissues. Based on Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir, this hand-drawn animated film follows Sarah (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a queer illustrator in 1990s San Francisco, who heads home when her mum Midge (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
The voice cast is a sapphic dream, with Samira Wiley, Wanda Sykes and Beanie Feldstein alongside Bryan Cranston and Seth Rogen. It got a standing ovation at Cannes, and it’s funnier than the premise suggests.
Watch in: A limited, awards-qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles from Friday 27 November 2026, with the wider US release in January 2027. No UK date yet.
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Other sapphic releases on our radar
Over here, Strictly’s first all-female couple since 2022, House of the Dragon’s Bethany Antonia and Nancy Xu, are still flying the flag every Saturday on BBC One and iPlayer, so keep voting. And Helen Mirren plays lesbian author Patricia Highsmith in A Talent for Murder, in UK cinemas from 20 November (US readers, it’s been out since 23 October). It’s not a biopic and reviews are mixed, but Mirren chain-smoking in a Swiss chalet is reason enough.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County (Hulu in the US, Disney+ in the UK, 12 November) follows influencer Aspyn Ovard as she explores her bisexuality after her divorce. For our US readers, Bravo’s Small Town Trouble: Texas (18 November) promises a real-life Hunting Wives, set in a small Christian town where, according to one cast member, plenty of married women are quietly sleeping with women. And ESPN’s 30 for 30 turns to lesbian tennis legend Billie Jean King with Give Me the Ball! on 22 November.
In US cinemas, Larry Fessenden’s indie horror Trauma Or, Monsters All (4 November) follows a new librarian in a small town where the local monsters are closing in. And for the festive girlies, Lifetime finally airs firefighter romance A Firefighter’s Christmas Calendar on 29 November.
Need more festive sapphic viewing? Here are 24 lesbian and sapphic Christmas movies to watch this year.
Honourable mentions
Not sapphic, but too good to leave out. Jordan Firstman’s A24 debut Club Kid follows a hard-partying queer New York club promoter who discovers he has a 10-year-old son, with Cara Delevingne in the cast. It’s out in US cinemas from 6 November and here on 8 January 2027. Andrew Scott is already getting Oscar buzz for Elsinore, playing Ian Charleson, the gay actor who performed Hamlet at the National Theatre while living with AIDS, alongside Olivia Colman, Billie Piper and Joe Locke. It’s in select US cinemas from 20 November, with the UK getting it on 29 January 2027.
On TV, All’s Fair returns for season 2 (Hulu in the US, Disney+ in the UK, 4 November) with queer icons Sarah Paulson and Niecy Nash-Betts in the cast, though their characters aren’t sapphic. Stick returns for season 2 on Apple TV (4 November, UK and US), with Lilli Kay back as non-binary bartender Zero. And RuPaul’s Drag Race UK series 8 crowns its winner on Thursday 5 November on BBC Three and iPlayer. It’s the show’s last series on the BBC, so make it a watch party.
Hockey romance Heated Rivalry is also heading to the big screen, with paired-episode screenings at Regal in the US from 6 November, and Cineworld and Picturehouse showing it over here too.
Coming in December
Los Javis’ queer epic La Bola Negra, with Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close, starts streaming on Netflix in the US on 2 December. We’ll be back with the full December line-up next month.
See you on the sofa.
Nonchalant x
In case you missed it: Your queer TV guide for October 2026
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This article was written by one of our creative team writers here at Nonchalant Magazine.
