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[–]Constantine 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No, I mean Blythe. I don't know if the character was ever explicitly acknowledged as trans, I just kind of assumed because it was this "woke" group of friends and I think I may have read an interview about it? I'm pretty sure Netflix counted that character toward their LGBT+ quota or whatever, and the character had a male love interest, so under the TRA orthodoxy that's a "straight" relationship. Also, the actor is just clearly trans. I never got the sense (unlike with the character on that period chess show drama-I stopped watching as soon as the trans actor showed up with that one) that the character was supposed to be anything other than trans. I could be wrong, though.

For me that character being trans just added to the overall aesthetic of the person being annoyingly woke/self-centered. Either way I wish we didn't have trans actors because I have a problem with the trans ideology in general, but that's another topic.

[–]BEB 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think Blythe was acknowledged as trans and instead we were supposed to buy the character as a straight woman. That's what made it really irritating. The character was annoying to begin with, but to have to try to suspend disbelief every time he was in a scene really took me out of the show.

[–]Constantine 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If that's the case, yeah, that would make it very hard for me to watch the show. Well, that season anyway, I'm not a fan of the current seasons.