“If the goal is to show real, lesbian women just living their lives, they accomplished it. “I don’t think the show is lacking anything,” Alsheikh says.
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“I’m always curious about the lesbian scene in other cities, and I love to travel to check out lesbian bars I haven’t been to yet, so watching Tampa Baes was also like doing research,” she adds.īut no show can be all things to all people, and the burden often falls on series depicting marginalized people to include and appeal to the wide range of people who have a shared experience-in Tampa Baes’ case, living as a lesbian. This show is real, it’s messy, and it’s fun.”įor Alsheikh, the series is also an anthropological, intimate glimpse into a lesbian scene outside of the Bay Area, where she lives. “There is so little lesbian representation on TV, so whenever I see content, I’m definitely going to watch.
Following The L Word: Generation Q finale last month, there was an intermission in contemporary lesbian content to stream. I would love to see that remedied in future seasons.”įor Najwa Alsheikh, watching Tampa Baes felt obvious. Tampa Bay is literally a quarter Black, and the show did not reflect that at all. “The show definitely felt very white, even though there was a light sprinkle of diversity…. “The original concerns from the cast announcement are still good ones,” Juarez says, referencing an online controversy that broke out over the lack of diversity within the cast in 2020.
And like most popular entertaining reality shows, it isn’t without its problems.
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