Online Premiere Date Announced For Lesflicks Original Lesbian Web Series Love Me Lex
Lesflicks has kept Love Me Lex in rotation since its launch as the platform’s first original series, giving new viewers an easy way to catch the seven-episode Australian story about a teacher navigating romance in her forties. The project arrived with backing from Screen Australia, the Sapphic Investment Film Fund, and Infinite Pies Productions, and it quickly became a reference point for later-life sapphic stories told with a happy ending.
Legacy and Continued Availability
Lesflicks still lists a dedicated page for the series, preserving its place as the inaugural SapphicIFF project. Viewers can stream the full run without hunting through festival archives, and the short episode length keeps the watch time manageable for anyone dipping back into the platform after a break.
SapphicIFF Evolution Since 2023
The fund has expanded its reach with a dedicated Sapphic Student Short Film Fund aimed at university filmmakers. It continues to pair independent projects with investors, widening the pipeline that started with Love Me Lex and showing how early backing can seed ongoing production support for queer women’s stories.
Lesflicks Platform Updates
Subscription options now sit at four tiers: WATCH at £8.99 per month, WATCH+ at £12.99, VIP at £15.99, and a lower Supporter tier at £1.99. The service stresses that at least half of every subscription flows back to filmmakers, a model that has already returned more than £100,000 to creators working on similar titles.
Representation Impact and Audience Reception
Early viewers noted the series felt full of heart and offered a rare chance to see a later-life lesbian character step into the dating pool without the usual tragic turn. Those comments still circulate among audiences looking for stories that treat mid-life romance as viable rather than exceptional.
The plot centers on Lex Adamson, played by Sarah Light, who returns to dating after a long stretch on her own. Her options include the off-limits Kat, played by Deanna Cooney, and her former partner Miranda, played by Susan Stevenson. The seven episodes, each running about nine minutes, balance light comedy with the practical awkwardness of re-entering the scene in your forties.
Writer and director Sanja Katich built the series after conversations with actors who had grown tired of repeated dead-lesbian tropes. She wanted a story that let queer women see an older protagonist land on solid ground, and she assembled a largely female crew to keep that perspective consistent on set. The production filmed across Western Australia in 2021 and later screened at the WA Made Film Festival and Revelation International Film Festival before moving to streaming.
Katich has written previously about Australian queer series such as Janet King and Wentworth for Outnews and Curve Magazine. Love Me Lex marked her first time directing, and she used the shorter web format to keep each chapter focused on one emotional beat while still delivering a complete arc across the season.
Producer Stephanie Davis at Somedae Pictures helped steer the project from script stage through post-production. The small cast size and tight runtime allowed the team to maintain control over tone and to foreground the everyday details that make Lex’s search feel familiar rather than stylized.
Lesflicks positions itself as a home for sapphic screen content that includes lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary narratives. The platform’s emphasis on returning subscription revenue to filmmakers gives projects like Love Me Lex a longer shelf life than festival-only releases, since ongoing payouts can support future seasons or related work.
Love Me Lex remains available through the Lesflicks site, where the dedicated page continues to mark it as the first title funded through SapphicIFF. That status keeps the series visible to new subscribers who want to start with a short, self-contained story before exploring the broader catalog of features and shorts.
https://www.lesflicks.com/pages/love-me-lex
