Hiya! Heh, it’s my pleasure.
The Pier is the international name for the Spanish drama El Embarcadero, which dropped its first season last January, and its second and–I believe–final season this January, so it is definitely over.
This is going to be a little spoilery, but here goes: It starts off with Alex, a successful architect, celebrating a career victory and sharing a celebratory phone call with her husband Oscar, who she’s very happily married to. She then finds out he’s committed suicide and while going through his things, realizes he’s been having a long-term affair with another woman, Veronica. Alex goes to confront her, but instead gets sucked into this different life, one that often seems to parallel Oscar’s own journey to Veronica.
Through the first season especially, we see flashbacks of Oscar with both women, his life with Alex, how he fell in love with Veronica. There’s also a policeman, Conrado, who Alex gets involved with at some point. There are a good number of explicit m/f scenes, the men aren’t minor characters, Oscar especially matters to these women. But the relationship between Alex and Veronica is the center of the show, I can say that with confidence after finishing season 2.
Um, hmm, I always hesitate to recommend anything, I just throw out what I like and if somebody tries it and likes it, cool. But in terms of what I’ve watched in the last few…months? that I liked, it’d be Killjoys, Atypical, For All Mankind, The Pier, Mr. Robot. They all left me feeling pretty great.
For shows without any (significant) f/f currently, I’m enjoying Emergence, Prodigal Son, and All Rise. Oh, and as always, The Expanse.
Oh, also forgot, Shrill just released its second season, which was a much easier watch for me than the first one. I wouldn’t say there’s no f/f content, the main character’s best friend and roommate is a lesbian, but the second season doesn’t focus on her romances.
I didn’t really see this make much of a splash, in my circles at least, but Dollface was also enjoyable, although it definitely had no f/f and should have had a TON. Such a waste.
I want Evil to have maybe one more main female character, it feels unbalanced, but I’m liking it.
Carol’s Second Act and Sunnyside are incredibly inoffensive mild little sitcoms but they were easy viewing and there’s something to be said for not having to brace yourself against mean “humor”, and both have very matter of fact f/f characters that are just there.
Hope this helps!
