The Netflix series is helmed by showrunner Lauren Morelli ( Orange Is the New Black), who worked with an all-LGBTQ writing room, and promises that some of the current issues facing San Francisco-like, dramatic income inequality, stratospheric rent costs, and the ubiquity of the tech industry-will be represented onscreen.īut the core of the series will be the same as it always is, the idea that 'home is a feeling,' and that a family can be made up of anyone you love.

Also appearing are Bob The Drag Queen, Molly Ringwald, and Thomas Page McBee. Also seen in the trailer are Zosia Mamet as Claire Duncan, who appears to be in a relationship with Ellen Page's character Murray Bartlett, who plays Mary Ann's longtime friend 'Mouse' Tolliver and Garcia, a nonbinary actor who plays Anna's transgender caregiver, Jake. This latest installment centers around Mary Ann (Laura Linney), who is returning to San Francisco after decades away it's there that she's reunited with her daughter, Shawna (Ellen Page), and Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis), the eccentric, open-hearted landlady of Barbary Lane. The trailer for Netflix's adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is here, and it takes viewers back to 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco, offering a 'new chapter' of the lives of its residents, and picking up their stories following the series' first three installments, which aired in 1993, 1998, and 2001, on PBS and Showtime. Get ready for a wild ride up and down San Francisco's steeply sloping streets.

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