Leila, an 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.
The series was co-produced by Hulu and Channel 4.
Examples:
- Age-Gap Romance: 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).
- All Lesbians Want Kids: Leila and Sadie had been looking into having children during their relationship (but with some reluctance on Leila's part, before they broke up, while she turns out to also be bisexual). Afterward though it's shown that Sadie is still looking into sperm donors.
- Asian Store-Owner: Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and she's often rude to customers (though granted they sometimes deserve it). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.
- British Brevity: It's a miniseries of just six episodes, each about 27-30 minutes each.
- Cast Full of Gay: Leila, the lead character, is a bisexual woman while most of the supporting characters are lesbians.
- Closet Gay: 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.
- Coming-Out Story: 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.
- Disappeared Dad: 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).
- Do You Want to Copulate?: Leila bluntly says she wants to have sex with Jon-Criss. He wastes no time in accepting, and scrambles quickly to find a condom.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The series is about a bisexual, like the title suggests.
- Forced Out of the Closet: Leila is staying in the closet about being 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.
- Hairy Girl: 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.
- The Immodest Orgasm: Leila is annoyed by hearing Gabe's student moaning loudly as they have sex nearby in the next room.
- Innocently Insensitive: Leila disparages English people after first meeting Sadie, but she then learns Sadie's English (apparently not having recognized her accent as being from Northern England as Leila's a foreigner).
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Leila and Jon-Criss have sex on a bathroom floor.
- Moment Killer: Leila tries to masturbate, but is turned off by Gabe's student loudly moaning while they have sex.
- No Bisexuals: 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 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.
- Oop North: Sadie is from Burnley, in Lancashire, with a strong accent.
- Persecution Flip: 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.
- Really Gets Around: Gabe comments that Leila being bisexual means that she can be promiscuous as her range 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
Broken Aesop. - Sexy Shirt Switch: After they have sex, Leila wears Jon-Criss's jacket (and she has nothing underneath), which Gabe takes note of.
- Shout-Out:
- Lesbian media like Blue Is the Warmest Color and The L Word is discussed by Leila, Gabe and her lesbian friends.
- In the past Leila used “Amanda Hugandkiss” as an alias at a lesbian networking event.
- Shower of Love: 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).
- Teacher/Student Romance: In the very first episode Gabe has sex with one of his students. Neither of them wants anything long term however.
- Technical Virgin: 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. At his surprised response, she clarifies that she isn't a virgin, she's just only ever had sex with women.
- Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: 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).
