Happy Valentine's Day, dear IL! For queer show recs, Arcane's plot is a little plain, but it's still fun to watch and the animation is beautiful like concept art come to life. There's a canon f/f relationship featuring one of the main main characters, Vi. She's had a hard life full of loss and is a badass brawler sister who has a younger sister with mental health issues due to the trauma they went through as children. There's also another popular ship for the show (M/M), but it's not canon and I don't know if it'll ever be. However, the two guys (Jayce and Viktor) are set up as partners in every way, and their relationship is one of the deepest on the show imo.
If you're open to shows that aren't canonically queer, but there's also nothing that prevents you from reading them as queer (there's no romance in it whatsoever, other than peripheral romances that are spoken about more than seen, really, and not involving either of the two main protagonists), Beyond Evil might be up your alley. It's a dark show written and directed by women about two policemen in a small town who have to work together despite their unwillingness to do so when a murder occurs that resembles unsolved serial murders from long ago. Both of them harbor secrets as does everyone in town.
The central focus of the show is the relationship between the two men who hate each other in the beginning, and theirs is a very intense, dark relationship. They're repelled and drawn towards each other, they can't stop thinking of each other, etc., and one of them suspects the other of being the culprit behind the serial killings and they try to mess with each other's minds as a result! There's a lot of trauma, grief, self-hatred, mental health issues (with one of the side characters), and some really good h/c. Lots of scenes with men crying. Lots of tenderness and love among friends and found family despite everything.
Again, there's no romance in general and personally I'm not into the ship for some unknown reason because all the elements are THERE, but I completely understand why other people do because of this. The other characters in the show also question whether the two policemen are an item (neither dispels it and the way it's handled doesn't feel like icky queerbaiting to me especially with the way they handle the relationship between the two overall), and the cast members have spoken about the relationship and how it's like a romance iirc so I think you can consider it open to interpretation!
Both of these shows are on Netflix if you have it. If you don't, Beyond Evil is on Viki and if you don't have that but want to watch it, let me know.
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If you're open to shows that aren't canonically queer, but there's also nothing that prevents you from reading them as queer (there's no romance in it whatsoever, other than peripheral romances that are spoken about more than seen, really, and not involving either of the two main protagonists), Beyond Evil might be up your alley. It's a dark show written and directed by women about two policemen in a small town who have to work together despite their unwillingness to do so when a murder occurs that resembles unsolved serial murders from long ago. Both of them harbor secrets as does everyone in town.
The central focus of the show is the relationship between the two men who hate each other in the beginning, and theirs is a very intense, dark relationship. They're repelled and drawn towards each other, they can't stop thinking of each other, etc., and one of them suspects the other of being the culprit behind the serial killings and they try to mess with each other's minds as a result! There's a lot of trauma, grief, self-hatred, mental health issues (with one of the side characters), and some really good h/c. Lots of scenes with men crying. Lots of tenderness and love among friends and found family despite everything.
Again, there's no romance in general and personally I'm not into the ship for some unknown reason because all the elements are THERE, but I completely understand why other people do because of this. The other characters in the show also question whether the two policemen are an item (neither dispels it and the way it's handled doesn't feel like icky queerbaiting to me especially with the way they handle the relationship between the two overall), and the cast members have spoken about the relationship and how it's like a romance iirc so I think you can consider it open to interpretation!
Both of these shows are on Netflix if you have it. If you don't, Beyond Evil is on Viki and if you don't have that but want to watch it, let me know.