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* AsianStoreOwner: Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and often is rude to customers (though granted they [[{{Jerkass}} sometimes deserve it]]). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.
* AsianStoreOwner: Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and often is rude to customers (though granted they [[{{Jerkass}} sometimes deserve it]]). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.
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* AllLesbiansWantKids: Leila and Sadie had been looking into having children during their relationship (but with some reluctance on Leila's part, before they broke up).up, while she turns out to also be bisexual). Afterward though it's shown that Sadie is still looking into sperm donors.
* AsianStoreOwner: Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and she's oftenis rude to customers (though granted they [[{{Jerkass}} sometimes deserve it]]). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Leila disparages English people after first meeting Sadie, but she then learns Sadie's English (apparently not having recognized her accent as being from [[OopNorth Northern England]] as she's Leila's a foreigner).
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Leila tries to masturbate, but is turned off by Gabe's student [[TheImmodestOrgasm loudly moaning]] while they have sex.
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''The Bisexual'' is a 2018 television miniseries created by Creator/DesireeAkhavan and Rowan Riley.
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Leila, an Iranian expat living in London, is with her long-term partner Sadie as the pair run a business together and are discussing having children. However, she takes a break after Sadie's marriage proposal is too much for her, and decides to explore seeing men. Leila is very nervous to admit this with her lesbian friends and by now ex Sadie, so only her straight house mate Gabe knows. When they find out, Leila gets a hostile reaction.
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Leila, an Iranian Iranian-American expat living in London, is with her long-term partner Sadie as the pair run a business together and are discussing having children. However, she takes a break after Sadie's marriage proposal is too much for her, and decides to explore seeing men. Leila is very nervous to admit this with her lesbian friends and by now ex Sadie, so only her straight house mate Gabe knows. When they find out, Leila gets a hostile reaction.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Leila disparages English people after first meeting Sadie, but she then learns Sadie's English (apparently not having recognized her accent as being from [[OopNorth Northern England]] as she's a foreigner.foreigner).
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* NoBisexuals: {{Discussed}} by Leila and her friends, who all show skepticism of bisexuality being real early on. Soon though Leila shows it's not true, as she's herself a bisexual woman, and gets a very hostile response from them. Initially though she doesn't want to idenity that way either, listing some negative stereotypes of bisexuality and saying there are no cool celebrity bisexuals as precedents. She later embraces the term however, after this initial hump. However Leila's lesbian friend Deniz and ex Sadie act like she'd always been really straight, acting very betrayed over it.
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* NoBisexuals: {{Discussed}} by Leila and her friends, who all show skepticism of bisexuality being real early on. Soon though Leila shows it's not true, as she's herself a bisexual woman, and gets a very hostile response from them. Initially though she doesn't want to idenity identify that way either, listing some negative stereotypes of bisexuality and saying there are no cool celebrity bisexuals as precedents. She later embraces the term however, after this initial hump. However Leila's lesbian friend Deniz and ex Sadie act like she'd always been really straight, acting very betrayed over it.
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Leila, an Iranian expat living in London, is with her long-term partner Sadie as the pair run a business together and are discussing having children. However, she takes a break after Sadie's marriage proposal is too much for her, and decides to explore seeing men together. Leila is very nervous to admit this with her lesbian friends and by now ex Sadie, so only her straight house mate Gabe knows. When they find out, Leila gets a hostile reaction.
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Leila, an Iranian expat living in London, is with her long-term partner Sadie as the pair run a business together and are discussing having children. However, she takes a break after Sadie's marriage proposal is too much for her, and decides to explore seeing men together.men. Leila is very nervous to admit this with her lesbian friends and by now ex Sadie, so only her straight house mate Gabe knows. When they find out, Leila gets a hostile reaction.
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* CastFullOfGay: Leila, the lead character, is a bisexual woman while most of the supporting characters are lesbians.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Gabe comments that Leila being bisexual means that she can be promiscuous as her range or partners is more broad. She gets offended and says she's only had sex with three people in ten years. Two men however had been within days of each other, then she also has sex with Tania, a friend, and her ex Sadie shortly afterward too, so it comes off as a BrokenAesop.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Gabe comments that Leila being bisexual means that she can be promiscuous as her range or of partners is more broad. She gets offended and says she's only had sex with three people in ten years. Two men however had been within days of each other, then she also has sex with Tania, a friend, and her ex Sadie shortly afterward too, so it comes off as a BrokenAesop.
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Leila is staying in the closet about being bisexual. Her ex Sadie learns she's dating a man though and gets hostile over it.
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Leila is staying in the closet about being bisexual.bisexual early on. Her ex Sadie learns she's dating a man though and gets hostile over it. Soon enough, all her lesbian friends know.
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The series was co-produced by Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/Channel4.
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Leila, an Iranian expat living in London, is with her long-term partner Sadie as the pair run a business together and are discussing having children. However, she takes a break after Sadie's marriage proposal is too much for her, and decides to explore seeing men together. Leila is very nervous to admit this with her lesbian friends and by now ex Sadie, so only her straight house mate Gabe knows. When they find out, Leila gets a hostile reaction.
!Examples:
* AgeGapRomance: Leila gives Gabe all kinds of (half-joking) crap about dating Francisca, who's his student and younger than him (by around eight years). She herself though was with Sadie, who's also older than her too (their actresses are ten years apart).
* AllLesbiansWantKids: Leila and Sadie had been looking into having children during their relationship (but with some reluctance on Leila's part, before they broke up). Afterward though it's shown that Sadie is still looking into sperm donors.
* AsianStoreOwner: Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and often is rude to customers (though granted they [[{{Jerkass}} sometimes deserve it]]). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.
* BritishBrevity: It's a miniseries of just six episodes, each about 27-30 minutes each.
* ClosetGay: Deniz is a closeted lesbian as she doesn't want to come out as her parents, who are Turkish, might have a negative reaction. Leila (who's Iranian) telling how her parents reacted badly convinces Deniz not to.
* ComingOutStory: In an unusual example, Leila's out as a lesbian then realizes she's bisexual after becoming attracted to a man whom she then has sex with. Her lesbian friends and ex are very hostile to her over it at first.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Leila tries to masturbate, but is turned off by Gabe's student [[TheImmodestOrgasm loudly moaning]] while they have sex.
* DisappearedDad: {{Discussed}} by Sadie with her mom. Her mom thinks single mothers by choice are selfish. Sadie didn't have a dad (we don't learn why, just that this wasn't her mom's choice), as she notes when trying to tell her mom that she's becoming one (as a lesbian who's looking into sperm donors).
* DoYouWantToCopulate: Leila bluntly says she wants to have sex with Jon-Criss. He wastes no time in accepting, and scrambles quickly to find a condom.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The series is about a bisexual, like the title suggests.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Leila is staying in the closet about being bisexual. Her ex Sadie learns she's dating a man though and gets hostile over it.
* HairyGirl: Leila hasn't shaved for fourteen years, and asks Gabe whether she should or not. After being pressed (and shown Leila's hairy armpit) he says yes, definitely.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Leila is annoyed by hearing Gabe's student moaning loudly as they have sex nearby in the next room.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Leila disparages English people after first meeting Sadie, but she then learns Sadie's English (apparently not having recognized her accent as being from [[OopNorth Northern England]] as she's a foreigner.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Leila and Jon-Criss have sex on a bathroom floor.
* NoBisexuals: {{Discussed}} by Leila and her friends, who all show skepticism of bisexuality being real early on. Soon though Leila shows it's not true, as she's herself a bisexual woman, and gets a very hostile response from them. Initially though she doesn't want to idenity that way either, listing some negative stereotypes of bisexuality and saying there are no cool celebrity bisexuals as precedents. She later embraces the term however, after this initial hump. However Leila's lesbian friend Deniz and ex Sadie act like she'd always been really straight, acting very betrayed over it.
* OopNorth: Sadie is from Burnley, in Lancashire, with a strong accent.
* PersecutionFlip: Leila's ex and her other lesbian friends act much like homophobes do when they learn she's slept with a man, coming out as being bisexual instead of a lesbian as they thought.
* ReallyGetsAround: Gabe comments that Leila being bisexual means that she can be promiscuous as her range or partners is more broad. She gets offended and says she's only had sex with three people in ten years. Two men however had been within days of each other, then she also has sex with Tania, a friend, and her ex Sadie shortly afterward too, so it comes off as a BrokenAesop.
* SexyShirtSwitch: After they have sex, Leila wears Jon-Criss's jacket (and she has nothing underneath), which Gabe takes note of.
* ShoutOut:
** Lesbian media like ''Film/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'' and ''Series/TheLWord'' is discussed by Leila, Gabe and her lesbian friends.
** In the past Leila used “[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Amanda Hugandkiss]]” as an alias at a lesbian networking event.
* ShowerOfLove: Leila and Jon-Criss fool around in the shower together on the morning after they'd first had sex, while Gabe listens incredulously outside (since he thought Leila was a lesbian until then).
* TeacherStudentRomance: In the very first episode Gabe has sex with one of his students. Neither of them wants anything long term however.
* TechnicalVirgin: Leila, on the rebound after breaking up with her partner, goes home with the male coat-check clerk at the lesbian bar she and her friends hang out at, and admits to him when she has trouble opening the condom that she's never done this before. [[UnexpectedVirgin At his surprised response]], she clarifies that she isn't a virgin, she's just only ever had sex with women.
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Leila takes Gabe to a gay bar where she tells him there will be no straight guys but him (he doesn't mind, but it's slightly awkward).
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!Examples:
* AgeGapRomance: Leila gives Gabe all kinds of (half-joking) crap about dating Francisca, who's his student and younger than him (by around eight years). She herself though was with Sadie, who's also older than her too (their actresses are ten years apart).
* AllLesbiansWantKids: Leila and Sadie had been looking into having children during their relationship (but with some reluctance on Leila's part, before they broke up). Afterward though it's shown that Sadie is still looking into sperm donors.
* AsianStoreOwner: Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and often is rude to customers (though granted they [[{{Jerkass}} sometimes deserve it]]). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.
* BritishBrevity: It's a miniseries of just six episodes, each about 27-30 minutes each.
* ClosetGay: Deniz is a closeted lesbian as she doesn't want to come out as her parents, who are Turkish, might have a negative reaction. Leila (who's Iranian) telling how her parents reacted badly convinces Deniz not to.
* ComingOutStory: In an unusual example, Leila's out as a lesbian then realizes she's bisexual after becoming attracted to a man whom she then has sex with. Her lesbian friends and ex are very hostile to her over it at first.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Leila tries to masturbate, but is turned off by Gabe's student [[TheImmodestOrgasm loudly moaning]] while they have sex.
* DisappearedDad: {{Discussed}} by Sadie with her mom. Her mom thinks single mothers by choice are selfish. Sadie didn't have a dad (we don't learn why, just that this wasn't her mom's choice), as she notes when trying to tell her mom that she's becoming one (as a lesbian who's looking into sperm donors).
* DoYouWantToCopulate: Leila bluntly says she wants to have sex with Jon-Criss. He wastes no time in accepting, and scrambles quickly to find a condom.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The series is about a bisexual, like the title suggests.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Leila is staying in the closet about being bisexual. Her ex Sadie learns she's dating a man though and gets hostile over it.
* HairyGirl: Leila hasn't shaved for fourteen years, and asks Gabe whether she should or not. After being pressed (and shown Leila's hairy armpit) he says yes, definitely.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Leila is annoyed by hearing Gabe's student moaning loudly as they have sex nearby in the next room.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Leila disparages English people after first meeting Sadie, but she then learns Sadie's English (apparently not having recognized her accent as being from [[OopNorth Northern England]] as she's a foreigner.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Leila and Jon-Criss have sex on a bathroom floor.
* NoBisexuals: {{Discussed}} by Leila and her friends, who all show skepticism of bisexuality being real early on. Soon though Leila shows it's not true, as she's herself a bisexual woman, and gets a very hostile response from them. Initially though she doesn't want to idenity that way either, listing some negative stereotypes of bisexuality and saying there are no cool celebrity bisexuals as precedents. She later embraces the term however, after this initial hump. However Leila's lesbian friend Deniz and ex Sadie act like she'd always been really straight, acting very betrayed over it.
* OopNorth: Sadie is from Burnley, in Lancashire, with a strong accent.
* PersecutionFlip: Leila's ex and her other lesbian friends act much like homophobes do when they learn she's slept with a man, coming out as being bisexual instead of a lesbian as they thought.
* ReallyGetsAround: Gabe comments that Leila being bisexual means that she can be promiscuous as her range or partners is more broad. She gets offended and says she's only had sex with three people in ten years. Two men however had been within days of each other, then she also has sex with Tania, a friend, and her ex Sadie shortly afterward too, so it comes off as a BrokenAesop.
* SexyShirtSwitch: After they have sex, Leila wears Jon-Criss's jacket (and she has nothing underneath), which Gabe takes note of.
* ShoutOut:
** Lesbian media like ''Film/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'' and ''Series/TheLWord'' is discussed by Leila, Gabe and her lesbian friends.
** In the past Leila used “[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Amanda Hugandkiss]]” as an alias at a lesbian networking event.
* ShowerOfLove: Leila and Jon-Criss fool around in the shower together on the morning after they'd first had sex, while Gabe listens incredulously outside (since he thought Leila was a lesbian until then).
* TeacherStudentRomance: In the very first episode Gabe has sex with one of his students. Neither of them wants anything long term however.
* TechnicalVirgin: Leila, on the rebound after breaking up with her partner, goes home with the male coat-check clerk at the lesbian bar she and her friends hang out at, and admits to him when she has trouble opening the condom that she's never done this before. [[UnexpectedVirgin At his surprised response]], she clarifies that she isn't a virgin, she's just only ever had sex with women.
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Leila takes Gabe to a gay bar where she tells him there will be no straight guys but him (he doesn't mind, but it's slightly awkward).
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