![]() And by reeling I mean keeping all of their complicated emotions bottled up and ignoring Bessy and her entire family. A sort of transition story, if you will.Īt the start of the season, Sabi (show co-creator Bilal Baig) is still reeling from the death of their father - and their kiss with former boss/complicated friend Bessy (Grace Lynn Kung). ![]() Not only is the season a new kind of transition story it also recontextualizes the entire show as a new kind of transition story. The third - and final - season of Sort Of shows how to do it well. The issue was how these stories tend to focus on transition. The issue wasn’t just the focus on transition. The coming outs, the clothing shifts, the healthcare challenges - the same tropes with slight adjustments reducing trans people to a flattened portrayal of this one moment in our long lives. Of course, I understood the desire to have more stories about trans people settled in their lives, but transition stories mattered too! I mean, I was living a transition story and I wanted to see that on-screen.īut as the years passed, and I became a more experienced trans person myself, I understood the exhaustion with these narratives. When I first came out as trans, I balked at more experienced trans people who argued against transition storylines. This review contains minor spoilers for Sort Of season three. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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