The Bisexual: What the reviewers think

BBC Radio 5 Live Afternoon Edition’s TV reviewers this week are Scott Bryan, TV Editor at Buzzfeed and Emma Bullimore from the TV Times.

What did you think? Leave your reviews below…

Emma says: “I thought it was fine."

“I love a relationship drama so I'm thinking ‘great this is going to be something I really get on board with.’

“And it was great but I didn't really see where the funny bits were supposed to be and it's supposed to be a comedy.

“I found it quite smug, quite self-satisfied.

“It was trying to be really relatable. But then everything was so easy: getting a new relationship was easy, finding someone to have sex with was so easy. It just all felt like they were far too cool for me to be able to relate to them.

“Maxine Peake is flawless, that is a given. But the rest of it just left me a bit cold.

"I didn't hate it, but I just didn't love it either.”

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Scott says: "I found the first episode very promising."

“I actually liked it.

“I would say it is a show that I really want to give more time to, I think the fact they've put the whole series out there in one go, I feel gives me that sense of trying to see where it's going.

“I found the first episode very promising.

“I was afraid that the fact that the show is called “The Bisexual”, the fact that it looks into the prejudices that bisexual people experience, that it would be a bit heavy or a bit…'soapboxy.' But what I really like is that, actually, I found it to be really quite funny.

“I found a lot of it was incredibly relatable. The whole feeling from the main character, Layla, is about what it's like to be with somebody and then to find that something's missing in your relationship and you're not really sure why that is. I think that is really quite universal.

“I think it does look into the subtle, unintentional biphobia and homophobia that people don’t actively think about.

“It's not autobiographical, but it does feel very personal and I think it is a real labour of love.”

The Bisexual comes to Channel 4 at 10pm on October 10th. The full series is available, free to view or download, on All 4, following the broadcast of the first episode. The series will continue weekly on Channel 4.

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