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Each season we cover one show or movie with lesbian main characters and discuss it.
Season 1 - Sheena and Monica McCallan watch Juliantina - the lesbian relationship in the Mexican tele novella Amar a Muerte.
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Wrap Up Show - Lesbians On Screen watching Juliantina (ep39)
Wrap Up Show
Lesbians On Screen
Season 1 Episode 39
Today we are talking about Juliantina, a lesbian couple featured in the show Amar A Muerte - A Mexican soap opera and they fast gained global popularity.
We look at:
Unanswered Questions
What did Eva Do?
Who’s child did Eva carry?
Is Chivis Psychic
Overriding themes
Meant to be / destiny
Overcoming homophobia
The Queer rep they chose to show
I don’t like labels.
Women judge more harshly than men.
Questioning your sexuality and sleeping with a man.
What would a perfect ending look like for the two of them?
Where to from here?
Recommendations
Books
The Flaw In Our Design by Monica McCallan
The Road To Madison by Elle Spencer
Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden
Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton
Back to the Start by Monica McCallan
Movies
Saving Face
About the hosts
Sheena
Sheena has an honours degree in film and a passion for watching movies that started in her early teens. She is never far from her kindle or her netflix and is a super fan of content that specifically features lesbians or women loving women couples.
Monica McCallan
Monica McCallan was an enthusiastic fan of romance novels before she began writing them. Her first novel, Better than a Dream, was released in late December, 2017.
She lives with her partner and two tiny dogs, cannot parallel park to save her life, enjoys playing pool a few times a week, and has enjoyed every second of the craft beer explosion these last few years.
Links to Monica’s Lists of Juliantina stuff
https://medium.com/morning-boo/the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-how-a-mexican-telenovela-is-taking-over-the-lesbian-world-bd75527c7e66
https://medium.com/morning-boo/part-ii-of-the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-the-fantastic-world-of-the-juliantina-fandom-c815b664ffe2
Find Monica Online
Website https://www.monicamccallan.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/monicamccallan
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MonicaMcCallan -
Deleted Scenes pt 2 - Lesbians On Screen watching Juliantina (ep38)
Deleted Scenes pt 2
Lesbians On Screen
Season 1 Episode 38
Today we are talking about Juliantina, a lesbian couple featured in the show Amar A Muerte - A Mexican soap opera and they fast gained global popularity.
We look at:
Val’s interview - too overt or just right?
Jules and Lupe coming full circle to where Lupe is now being supportive
After Val’s TV interview - The scene that really should have be aired
The extended fashion show
About the hosts
Sheena
Sheena has an honours degree in film and a passion for watching movies that started in her early teens. She is never far from her kindle or her netflix and is a super fan of content that specifically features lesbians or women loving women couples.
Monica McCallan
Monica McCallan was an enthusiastic fan of romance novels before she began writing them. Her first novel, Better than a Dream, was released in late December, 2017.
She lives with her partner and two tiny dogs, cannot parallel park to save her life, enjoys playing pool a few times a week, and has enjoyed every second of the craft beer explosion these last few years.
Links to Monica’s Lists of Juliantina stuff
https://medium.com/morning-boo/the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-how-a-mexican-telenovela-is-taking-over-the-lesbian-world-bd75527c7e66
https://medium.com/morning-boo/part-ii-of-the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-the-fantastic-world-of-the-juliantina-fandom-c815b664ffe2
Find Monica Online
Website https://www.monicamccallan.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/monicamccallan
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MonicaMcCallan -
Deleted Scenes pt1 - Lesbians On Screen watching Juliantina (ep 37)
Deleted Scenes part 1 of 2
Lesbians On Screen
Season 1 Episode 37
Today we are talking about Juliantina, a lesbian couple featured in the show Amar A Muerte - A Mexican soap opera and they fast gained global popularity.
We look at these deleted scenes:
Entering Val’s house for the first time
Dancing in the park
Dress shopping
Undressing after the party
Their first night being intimate
Extended conversation from ep 86 - our fathers are back
About the hosts
Sheena
Sheena has an honours degree in film and a passion for watching movies that started in her early teens. She is never far from her kindle or her netflix and is a super fan of content that specifically features lesbians or women loving women couples.
Monica McCallan
Monica McCallan was an enthusiastic fan of romance novels before she began writing them. Her first novel, Better than a Dream, was released in late December, 2017.
She lives with her partner and two tiny dogs, cannot parallel park to save her life, enjoys playing pool a few times a week, and has enjoyed every second of the craft beer explosion these last few years.
Links to Monica’s Lists of Juliantina stuff
https://medium.com/morning-boo/the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-how-a-mexican-telenovela-is-taking-over-the-lesbian-world-bd75527c7e66
https://medium.com/morning-boo/part-ii-of-the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-the-fantastic-world-of-the-juliantina-fandom-c815b664ffe2
Find Monica Online
Website https://www.monicamccallan.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/monicamccallan
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MonicaMcCallan -
Val Comes Out On TV - Lesbians On Screen watching Juliantina (ep 36)
Val Comes Out On TV
Lesbians On Screen
Season 1 Episode 36
Today we are talking about Juliantina, a lesbian couple featured in the show Amar A Muerte - A Mexican soap opera and they fast gained global popularity.
We look at:
Val comes out to the world and she does it in style
Juls watches Val come out
Coming out on TV as a queer person vs announcing your love as a heterosexual person
The deleted scene that should have been aired
The family meeting where Val’s father tells them he realises he needs to be a better father
Eva is arrested
The shirt Sheena doesn’t like
Missing the opportunity for Eva and Val to make up
Juls does a fashion show and Val is modelling
Next episode - deleted scenes
About the hosts
Sheena
Sheena has an honours degree in film and a passion for watching movies that started in her early teens. She is never far from her kindle or her netflix and is a super fan of content that specifically features lesbians or women loving women couples.
Monica McCallan
Monica McCallan was an enthusiastic fan of romance novels before she began writing them. Her first novel, Better than a Dream, was released in late December, 2017.
She lives with her partner and two tiny dogs, cannot parallel park to save her life, enjoys playing pool a few times a week, and has enjoyed every second of the craft beer explosion these last few years.
Links to Monica’s Lists of Juliantina stuff
https://medium.com/morning-boo/the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-how-a-mexican-telenovela-is-taking-over-the-lesbian-world-bd75527c7e66
https://medium.com/morning-boo/part-ii-of-the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-the-fantastic-world-of-the-juliantina-fandom-c815b664ffe2
Find Monica Online
Website https://www.monicamccallan.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/monicamccallan
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MonicaMcCallan -
Juls Gets A Happy Family Moment! - Lesbians On Screen watching Juliantina (ep 35)
Juls Gets A Happy Family Moment!
Lesbians On Screen
Season 1 Episode 35
Today we are talking about Juliantina, a lesbian couple featured in the show Amar A Muerte - A Mexican soap opera and they fast gained global popularity.
We look at:
Val is comforting Eva
Val is just a ball of light
Thinking about doing the wrong thing but then doing the right thing
Juls gets a family moment
Johny Corona shoots Lucia
There is an eclipse and Beltran (El Chino) has a realisation
Lucia dies and the funeral is had
We feel bad for the doves in the box
Eva is going to turn herself into the police
Beltrans two wives meet and he tells Juls she can be happy with whoever she wants
Beltran gives Jules and Lupe the money he stole
About the hosts
Sheena
Sheena has an honours degree in film and a passion for watching movies that started in her early teens. She is never far from her kindle or her netflix and is a super fan of content that specifically features lesbians or women loving women couples.
Monica McCallan
Monica McCallan was an enthusiastic fan of romance novels before she began writing them. Her first novel, Better than a Dream, was released in late December, 2017, and she's already hard at work on her second novel.
She lives with her partner and two tiny dogs, cannot parallel park to save her life, enjoys playing pool a few times a week, and has enjoyed every second of the craft beer explosion these last few years.
Links to Monica’s Lists of Juliantina stuff
https://medium.com/morning-boo/the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-how-a-mexican-telenovela-is-taking-over-the-lesbian-world-bd75527c7e66
https://medium.com/morning-boo/part-ii-of-the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-the-fantastic-world-of-the-juliantina-fandom-c815b664ffe2
Find Monica Online
Website https://www.monicamccallan.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/monicamccallan
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MonicaMcCallan -
It’s Too Dangerous To Be Together - Lesbians On Screen watching Juliantina (ep34)
It’s Too Dangerous To Be Together
Lesbians On Screen
Season 1 Episode 34
Today we are talking about Juliantina, a lesbian couple featured in the show Amar A Muerte - A Mexican soap opera and they fast gained global popularity.
We look at:
Ranata finds out that Val is about to be exposed
Val tells Juls about her dad’s transmigration -“boom”
“Talk about in-law problems,” - Monica
"They are so polar opposite and yet they are so beautifully matched," - Sheena
The roles are reversed - Juls wants to give it a go anyway and Val pulls away
Why wasn’t there a kiss when they were saying they couldn’t be together?
How the return of Val’s father plays a role in the relationship between Juls and Val
Renata tells Val that a competitor media empire has found out about Val and Juls and plan on spilling the beans
About the hosts
Sheena
Sheena has an honours degree in film and a passion for watching movies that started in her early teens. She is never far from her kindle or her netflix and is a super fan of content that specifically features lesbians or women loving women couples.
Monica McCallan
Monica McCallan was an enthusiastic fan of romance novels before she began writing them.
She lives with her partner and two tiny dogs, cannot parallel park to save her life, enjoys playing pool a few times a week, and has enjoyed every second of the craft beer explosion these last few years.
Links to Monica’s Lists of Juliantina stuff
https://medium.com/morning-boo/the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-how-a-mexican-telenovela-is-taking-over-the-lesbian-world-bd75527c7e66
https://medium.com/morning-boo/part-ii-of-the-evolution-of-obsesi%C3%B3n-the-fantastic-world-of-the-juliantina-fandom-c815b664ffe2
Find Monica Online
Website https://www.monicamccallan.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/monicamccallan
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MonicaMcCallan