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Hit Australian Lesbian Series ‘Starting From Now’ Final Season Starts Now

The first episode of the fifth and final season of acclaimed Aussie lesbian web series Starting From Now is now available to watch for free at KitschMix.TV.

The independently-produced show began it’s journey in 2014, and achieved viral success for its authentic portrayal of four inner-city Australian lesbians as they struggle to work out who they are, find a place where they belong, and search for love along the way. Addictive back-to-back watching at it’s best.

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The show is the brainchild of multi-award winning writer/director Julie Kalceff, and has amassed 25 million views from more than 225 countries across the world – which is amazing considering it was created by the support of crowd funding. And on the back of the success of the first three seasons, Seasons 4 and 5 were acquired for by SBS to be broadcast Australian TV.

However, the previous four series of the show are available for you to binge-watch to your heart’s content her at KitschMix.TV.

Australia’s Most Watched Lesbian Drama ‘Starting From…Now!’ Seeks Funding

While we may argue about our favourite femslash ships and which TV shows and movies portray queer people in the best light, what we all agree on is that there simply aren’t enough queer women in our media. And when we are lucky enough to queer ladies on our screens, they’re often sidelined or even worse, reduced to just their sexuality or gender identity.

This is a problem that Australian web series Starting From…Now! has aimed to tackle as the four inner-city lesbians at the heart of its story deal with a variety of difficult subjects (including infertility, drug and alcohol abuse and lesbian couples starting families) across the course of its three seasons.

Julie Kalceff, who directs and writes the show explains that:

From the beginning, the intention was to portray complex female characters who happened to be lesbians. The series is about what it means to be human and the diversity of issues we’re confronted with on a daily basis… It just happens to be set in the LGBTI community.”

Unfortunately, while Starting From…Now!’s take on queerness is refreshing and the series has experienced massive success (the show is Australia’s most watched lesbian drama and it has amassed several million views) it needs outside help to make season four. The bar has been set at $35,000 and although it has raised just over $6,000 (with seven days to go), it has flexible funding and so even if it doesn’t reach the full $35,000 goal, it will receive every penny raised via indiegogo.

It’s also worth noting that Starting From…Now! could be a launch point for even more lady led content as the indiegogo explains that they could “potentially transition into funded film and television content” including “2 long form television series and multiple feature films in development; some of which are Starting From… Now! spin offs, all of which are led by women, and feature lesbian characters”.

We all want to see more lesbians in our media, right? Find out more here.

Watch season 1, 2 and 3 of Starting From…Now right now at Kitscmix.tv