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Unhinged TV Family Trees

TV doesn’t evolve in straight lines — it cannibalises itself, mutates, and dresses the same archetypes in new costumes. That’s where Unhinged TV Family Trees comes in.


Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Glee Without Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Glee Without Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Both are monster-of-the-week shows: Buffy slayed demons, Glee slayed Journey ballads. Camp lineage is real.

Mar 29, 2026

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5 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Sopranos Without The Flintstones

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Sopranos Without The Flintstones

Or The Evolution of the Angry Provider, Now with Prozac and Waste Management

Mar 8, 2026

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5 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Fleabag Without Looney Tunes

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Fleabag Without Looney Tunes

Because breaking the fourth wall started with a rabbit and a bad attitude

Mar 1, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Crown Without Keeping Up With the Kardashians

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Crown Without Keeping Up With the Kardashians

A tale of two dynasties. One has tiaras. The other has contour.

Feb 15, 2026

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6 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Mad Men Without Bewitched

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Mad Men Without Bewitched

Don Draper and Darren Stephens don’t seem like they belong in the same conversation

Jan 25, 2026

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3 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The X-Files Without Moonlighting

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The X-Files Without Moonlighting

The truth is out there, and it’s that Mulder and Scully are just David and Maddie in trench coats.

Jan 11, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Succession Without Arrested Development

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Succession Without Arrested Development

From Bluth to Roy: generational trauma, but make it prestige TV

Dec 24, 2025

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have True Blood Without Days Of Our Lives

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have True Blood Without Days Of Our Lives

From daytime drama to nighttime fangs—it’s all about who’s sleeping with whose undead ex

Dec 14, 2025

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5 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Westworld Without Jurassic Park

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Westworld Without Jurassic Park

Because every great theme park needs daddy issues and an extinction event.

Nov 30, 2025

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2 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Sex and the City Without Scooby-Doo

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Sex and the City Without Scooby-Doo

Proving once again that queer logic is the only logic: Carrie Bradshaw walks so Scooby could run.

Nov 9, 2025

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4 min read

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Where queer millennial nostalgia settles in. Part diary, part TV debrief, part late night spiral about the scenes that shaped us. A place for the characters we held close, the crushes we could not shake, and the moments that linger long after the credits fade, usually turning up again when we least expect it.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Nathan writes about TV as memory, queer adolescence as folklore, and the tiny moments that shaped who we became. He lives in Naarm with his cat, Captain.

FOR THE RECORD

Always in support of queer rights, trans lives, and a free Palestine.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia and pay my respects to First Nations peoples, past and present. Their stories, knowledge and care for Country continue to shape this place, and I’m grateful to be writing on lands where storytelling has always mattered.

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