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Especially if you think of the shows whose vibes I mentioned are sort of reflected/refracted in this show Pretty Little Liars wielded Emily’s queerness as a weapon in season one, and #YouOnLifetime used Peach’s obsession with Beck against her. But Saskia’s queerness isn’t one of those secrets. Everyone on this show has a secret, most of them are big (and even dangerous) secrets they’re terrified will come to light and would do anything to keep hidden, secrets that do come out and start to wreak havoc, just… so many secrets. Maybe someday this will stop feeling novel, but for me, Saskia’s bisexuality not being A Thing still feels really good in my soul. Sure, they finally break up with what you thought was the only obstacle between you and then ended up sleeping with someone who wasn’t you BUT BY GOLLY ARE YOU GOING TO BE THE VERY BEST FRIEND THEY’VE EVER HAD BY ASKING THEM FOR DETAILS LIKE THE GOOD EMOTIONALLY MASOCHISTIC GAY YOU ARE. In the third episode of Secret Bridesmaids Business, Saskia displays classic “in love with my best friend” behavior, which is being overenthusiastic about your unrequited love’s new love interest. This undid some of the damage Below Her Mouth did re: bathtubs for me. It’s perhaps most clearly displayed after Olivia gets drunk and plants a sloppy kiss on her brunette bridesmaid. But Saskia isn’t sleeping around because she’s bisexual this becomes very apparent very quickly. But she never quite tips over into that “slutty bisexual” trope.

It’s established that Saskia is bisexual early on, and it’s also explicitly stated that Saskia has never had a real relationship and prefers to sleep around. Between her overly caring gestures - tucking a drunk Olivia’s hair behind her ears for her, for example - and her seemingly unwarranted (at first eventually it’s very warranted) disdain for Olivia’s boyfriend, her longing for her best friend is very relatable.Īnd one thing I think Secret Bridesmaids’ Business is doing with Saskia and her bisexuality is something I think few shows have succeeded in.

At first I wasn’t even sure if she knew if her “he’s not good enough for you” feelings were a direct result of her “but I am” feelings but as time goes on I think she knows exactly what’s going on. She’s supportive of her friend but reluctantly so, and it’s a mood if I’ve ever seen one. Saskia and Melanie were part of Olivia’s boyfriend’s plot to propose to her, and you can tell the entire time that Saskia is miserable about the whole endeavor. Saskia denies it and accuses him of being binary and reductive in his understanding of bisexuality, but we, the audience, know he’s not wrong. Olivia’s fiance says as much in the very first episode. We are halfway through this six-episode series, and we don’t know all that much about Saskia’s past yet, but we do know a few things about her.

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(Maybe literally by the time the series is up WHO KNOWS.)Ĭheers to Katie McGrath officially achieving her queer character hat-trick. Olivia and Melanie’s dramas are boyfriend/husband/cheating related, and while I am invested in their overall safety and the trio’s friendship, I’m obviously here today to talk to you about a certain bisexual lawyer with a killer jawline. Secret Bridesmaids’ Business is primarily about Olivia (played by Georgina Haig aka Elsa from Once Upon a Time) and her two best friends, Melanie (Abbie Cornish) and, lezbehonest, the reason we’re all here: Saskia (Katie McGrath). Everyone is making truly terrible decisions, no one is talking to each other, and it seems like someone could get murdered at every turn even though no one has been murdered yet. So what I’m saying is, prepare to be stressed out. There are about five different stories going on at once four of them could be arcs from Pretty Little Liars: All Growed Up, and the fifth is basically #YouOnLifetime. This time it’s an Australian miniseries called Secret Bridesmaids Business, which is a dark and twisty tale of three best friends with questionable moral compasses.

It has been far too long, but Katie McGrath is finally kissing girls on our screens again.

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