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# Alphabet Soup redefines queer dating
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/alphabet-soup-redefines-queer-dating/
- Published: 2025-09-25T14:27:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-26T21:05:16.000Z
- Description: Dating. Exposed.
- Author: Dale Melita
- Tags: Culture

As cultural conversations around gender, identity and love constantly evolve, *Alphabet Soup* lands as a timely, genre defying docuseries that reimagines what a dating show can be. Directed by **Shannon Alexander**, this six part series offers a fashion forward, emotionally raw portrait of modern queer connection centering trans, non binary and BIPOC individuals navigating intimacy, identity, and self expression, all in the heart of **New York City** baby!

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/2025/09/17588253599803606869319394163008.jpg)

“This series is a love letter to resilience, queer joy, and the beautifully imperfect ways we seek connection,” says Shannon. 

> It’s not filtered or simplified-these are real people, real stories, and real lives in motion.

Honestly, *Alphabet Soup* is an emotional rollercoaster. It's unfiltered, emotional and fulllll of moments that’ll make you laugh, cringe and tear up. My eyes definitely leaked more than once. 

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/2025/09/17588257318445396316137344782725.jpg)

From throuple experiments and ghosted invites to rooftop confessions and spoken word breakthroughs, it dives head first into the messy and magical chaos of modern queer dating. 

*Alphabet Soup* doesn’t shy away from the chaos of connection. It’s not about the happily ever afters-it’s about real life which makes it so relatable and addictive viewing.

If you’re into queer storytelling that’s bold, vulnerable and unscripted then this one’s a must-watch for you! Shot with vérité intimacy and cinematic style, the series captures moments that are unguarded, honest and deeply personal while visually pushing the boundaries of traditional nonfiction storytelling. 

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/2025/09/17588254738436184879786043884564.jpg)

In a landscape crowded with formulas and fantasy, *Alphabet Soup* stands out. There’s no competition and no prizes, just raw conversations, quiet revelations and bold self-expression. 

Throughout the season, you’ll witness honest reflections on identity, self-worth, and vulnerability, the lived intersections of race, gender, and cultural legacy, the power of chosen family and queer community and radical self-expression through fashion, movement, voice, and presence.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/2025/09/17588249307084901516960207670899.jpg)

Shannon Alexanderbuilds deep trust with his subjects, capturing emotionally charged moments with a visual style that’s both intimate and unforgettable. Known for challenging conventional narratives, Shannon continues to center the beauty and complexity of marginalised lives. 

With *Alphabet Soup*, he reclaims a phrase once used dismissively-transforming it into a banner of pride, individuality, and expansive self-definition, a bit like what we've done with the word queer too.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/2025/09/17588253482599032459999489652895.jpg)

All six episodes of *Alphabet Soup* are available to stream right now on **Amazon Prime** and **Peacock** so instead of browsing for ages trying to find something to watch, I've saved you a job! This show is worth the late-night binge and the bleary-eyed morning after too.

**Alphabet Soup* is on Peacock and Amazon now. Share your thoughts in the comments section below👇🏻and start or join the convo! Not a member yet? Sign up for a ****FREE** membership [HERE](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/#/portal/signup) to join the discussion. A free membership gives you full access to the comment section and more and it's quick, easy and....free!