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The Bisexual - Season 1
A dramatic and powerful series we live with a girl called Laila. New Yorker Laila lives a perfect life with her friend in London. Laila may be hiding that she has a dangerous secret that she is bisexual. The events begin with Laila, who finds herself an unexpected ally in Gabi, helping her to live a new life for both men and women.
August 31, 1996 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
February1981, Kelvedon, Essex, England, UK
10 November 1955, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
1980, Southend, Essex, England, UK
October 12, 2018
The Bisexual is really a show about people who set out to carve themselves new, pioneering alt culture identities in their twenties, then find themselves deep into their thirties with no clear roadmap for what comes next.
October 10, 2018
As Leila, Desiree Akhavan, is dry, subtle and hugely funny, her light New York accent barely rising above a monotone and yet, somehow, expressing eloquent emotion.
October 15, 2018
Here was a widening of the conversation. And it was sweet, funny and blessed with a complex star.
October 15, 2018
Far lighter than, say, Fleabag, but sharing its arch humour, the miniseries hones in on the difficulties of apparently betraying a group you've long felt part of.
October 11, 2018
The Bisexual's secret weapon is its willingness to be moving. You laugh like a drain, but you care.
October 11, 2018
At heart it's about human beings - lost, lonely human beings - and, splendidly, about the utter uncoolness of the London hipster copping-off scene.
October 10, 2018
There is nobody whom one is, er, rooting for.
November 07, 2018
It's earnestness shines through as it educates us on how people often misunderstand bisexuality. However, as a six episode dramedy, The Bisexual feels a bit thin.
October 18, 2018
Akhavan creates robust enough characters to keep us compelled, even as we laugh.
October 16, 2018
It's rather good, in its way, Desiree Akhavan and Maxine Peake as a broken lesbian couple exploring their options, but the last taboo... for whom, exactly?