Why Is Netflix’s Animated Series ‘Q-Force’ Rated TV-MA? – Distractify

From Hazy Mills, the production company founded by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, Q-Force is a 10-episode animated series following a gay spy and his team of other LGBTQ+ spies as they take on missions (and deal with things in their personal lives, of course). This adult show has finally come to fruition after much discussion between Sean and Todd about creating a gay spy series.

“A spy TV series is so tough, because they’re so expensive,” Todd said to Deadline. “We were thinking how do we get to do gay spy and every week, and the only way to do that is animated, because we can do all of the fun parts of a James Bond film. We can travel, we can have big chase sequences; animation is allowing us that freedom.”

The duo also said they weren’t sure they could have a live-action spy series with a gay lead.

“Also, I don’t know that the studios would greenlight a feature with a leading character that’s gay in that genre,” Sean told the outlet. “Hopefully they will, but that doesn’t seem like right now.”

“It does seem like it’s one of the last bastions of masculinity that seems like we can’t break the rule of who gets to play that part,” Todd said.

Q-Force is now streaming all 10 episodes of its first season on Netflix.