WATCH LIST: Bisexual Characters Shine in FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” and NBC’s “Abby’s”
In Theaters
Call Me by Your Name hunk Armie Hammer plays a well-to-do tourist who finds himself stuck in the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel during a terrorist attack in this thriller-drama, which is based on a real life 2008 incident that saw 160 fatalities. Dev Patel and Jason Isaacs also star. (March 22, Bleecker Street)
DVD/Blu-Ray/Video on Demand
American motorsports superstar Hurley Haywood, who won the Daytona 24 and Le Mans multiple times, came out of the closet in his 2018 autobiography. This Patrick Dempsey-produced doc tells his story. (VOD, The Orchard)
When his mother is murdered, traumatized Mexico City middle school student Andy (Emilio Puente) is forced to live in the sticks with his loaded grandmother (Pedro Almodovar’s muse, Carmen Maura). There he meets Charly (Diego Alvarez Garcia), a frequently shirtless and sketchy young gardener, who manipulates the affection-hungry boy. (DVD, TLA)
Alyssa (Tania Nolan) is a successful photographer who begins to develop feelings for one of her husband's colleagues (trans actress Rachel Crowl) as the two women struggle to make sense of his mysterious disappearance. (DVD, Breaking Glass Pictures)
TV/Streaming
Matt Berry plays bisexual British bloodsucker Laszlo in this Staten Island-set spin-off of the hysterical 2014 mockumentary about a group of cohabitating vampires and their human enablers. (March 27, FX)
Queer actress Natalie Morales stars as the titular character of NBC’s new 10-episode sitcom about a bisexual ex-Marine, Abby, who turns her backyard into a neighborhood bar. Fun fact: The show's set was built on Universal’s lot just behind Edie Britt's Wisteria Lane home on Desperate Housewives. (March 28, NBC)
This satirical gay web series, set in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Australia, follows seven gay men as they navigate life in Oz’s “most beloved boring city.” In the debut episode, longtime friends Simon (Michael Deed) and Eric (Paul Newlands) contend yet again with the former’s addiction to apps and hooking up. (March 24, YouTube)
The CW’s telenovela-inspired series about Venezuelan-American 20-something Jane (Gina Rodriguez), who was accidentally artificially inseminated by a lesbian gynecologist, Luisa Alver (Yara Martinez), comes to a close with this fifth season. An anthology-style spin-off is in the works, Jane the Novela, which we hope will also include LGBTQ characters. (March 27, The CW)
Logo's mid-2000s original dramedy series, which followed the lives and relationships of four gay men in Los Angeles, is now available on YouTube—both seasons. Go in and let have!
