7/24/2023 0 Comments My unorthodox life cast instagramSpecifically, she ends up in a love triangle with professional tree planter Forrest (Jhaleil Swaby)…and Forrest’s tree planting sister Ivy (Max Amani). After the conclusion to her rollercoaster will-they/won’t-they romance with Maisy-May’s son Killian (Jared Scott) in season one, Billie finds herself returning to the lake for a new romantic trope: the love triangle. In season two, it gets even gayer, which really should be the trajectory of all television series. The Lake is more modern and more queer and binary-defying than most other family comedies from recent years that claim to bake the concept of a “modern family” into its premise. Billie’s relationship with Justin is different than her relationship with her adoptive parents and with her biological mother Teesa (Sagine Sémajuste), but all of these relationships are full of love, of mess. and though they’re defined distinctly, there isn’t some straightforward, cisnormative hierarchy ascribed to them. In The Lake, we get to see all kinds of relationships - adoptive parents, biological parents, step-siblings, step-cousins, etc. In season one, Justin and Billie bond against the backdrop of the quaint but drama-filled Canadian lakeside community where Justin spent summers in his youth, contending with a bevy of other “unconventional” family relationships, including the fraught rivalry between Justin and his step-sister Maisy-May (Julia Stiles), who lives in the sprawling cottage Justin’s grandfather built because Justin’s estranged father left it to her when he died. The Lake hinges on Justin (Jordan Gavaris), a gay man reconnecting with his biological daughter Billie (Madison Shamoun) who he had with his best friend when they were teens in high school and subsequently handed over to adoptive parents in an open adoption. The second I jumped into The Lake - the very underrated if imperfect Prime comedy that recently dropped its second season - I was struck by the quiet and very queer ways it reimagines family. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian CinemaĪuthor’s Note: This review of season two of The Lake on Prime contains some spoilers.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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