Streaming Queer: January 2025

"Prime Target" Season 1

"White Lotus" breakout Leo Woodall and nonbinary "Trinkets" actor Quintessa Swindell (they/he) lead this eight-episode conspiracy thriller series about a math genius and the NSA agent who has been observing him. Woodall is the brilliant math postgraduate on the verge of a major breakthrough. "If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers," the synopsis tells us, "he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon he begins to realize an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it's even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders (Swindell)." Swindell's character has been tasked with monitoring and reporting on the mathematician's behavior, but "together they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of."

"Prime Target" Season 1 premieres January 22 on AppleTV+.

"High Tides" Season 2

"High Tides" (or, in its native region, "Knokke Off,") follows the drunk and drug-fueled escapades of rich, privileged Belgian teenagers and the scandalous secrets of their parents in the wealthy coastal town of Knokke. There's Louise (played by Belgian pop star Pommelien Thijs), whose boyfriend Alex "doesn't mind" when she casually hooks up with her best friend, Margaux (who is clearly in love with her); Louise's father introduced her to his (secret, though not from his wife, who is supportive of his late-in-life gay awakening) boyfriend of five years last season. But it all began with Dutch outsider Daan, who moved to Knokke with his mother. Daan's mother strategized her way into a job as a nanny for the same family her sister, Claudia, worked for before she disappeared. We learn early on that Claudia disappeared after working as a nanny for Alex's younger sister, but (spoiler alert) it was revealed at the end of last season that she was having a passionate love affair with his mom. With so much to unpack from Season 1's mysteries and multi-dimensional cliffhanger ending, we cannot wait to dive back into the drama and deceit of the Knokke elite.

"High Tides" Season 2 premieres January 31 on Netflix.