I watched this series when it first aired in the UK. Having seen the pre-publicity - interviews with the author etc. - as a bisexual myself, I'd been looking forward to a funny but perceptive thing that at least attempted to show the truth of what life is like for us bi folks: the joys and the challenges. Not a whitewash job - we're all fallible individuals, after all - but something I could identify with as having some basis in reality.
Ah well... never mind! Written by Desiree Akhavan, who is bi and who cast herself in the title role - a massive mistake IMHO, as she CAN'T ACT. Throughout the whole story, which involves her character going through some major self-discovery and emotional turmoil, Akhavan delivers every line as a throwaway, in a bored, non-committal monotone, with a face so devoid of expression you'd think she'd dunked it in a bucket of bo-tox. Actors are supposed to be able to portray emotion: to let the audience see what is going on in the character's mind. Akhavan has all the emotive heft of a window dummy.
Worse than that, though, is the storyline's portrayal of her character, Leila, who is shown as shallow, self-obsessed, indecisive - oh, and (wait for it...) a sexually incontinent cheater. Oh great. Thanks, Desiree: pile on the stereotypical biphobic tropes, why dontcha?
So yeah. Not a fan. :(
Ah well... never mind! Written by Desiree Akhavan, who is bi and who cast herself in the title role - a massive mistake IMHO, as she CAN'T ACT. Throughout the whole story, which involves her character going through some major self-discovery and emotional turmoil, Akhavan delivers every line as a throwaway, in a bored, non-committal monotone, with a face so devoid of expression you'd think she'd dunked it in a bucket of bo-tox. Actors are supposed to be able to portray emotion: to let the audience see what is going on in the character's mind. Akhavan has all the emotive heft of a window dummy.
Worse than that, though, is the storyline's portrayal of her character, Leila, who is shown as shallow, self-obsessed, indecisive - oh, and (wait for it...) a sexually incontinent cheater. Oh great. Thanks, Desiree: pile on the stereotypical biphobic tropes, why dontcha?
So yeah. Not a fan. :(