T he trans and non-binary characters are more and more numerous in television productions, but are rarely at the center of them. This is why the Canadian comedy drama Sort of is an exception, its central character being non-binary, that is, he does not identify strictly as a woman or a man, but somewhere in between, or a mixture of the two.
This information is never given explicitly in the first episodes where we discover Sabi (amazing Bilal Baig, also co-creator and co-writer of the series). It is not necessary to become attached to the protagonist and understand his reality: the well-started twenties, of Pakistani origin, sometimes working in an LGBTQ bar in Toronto, sometimes as ” nanny Spoiled children from a progressive family in the Queen City, roommates with her very ambitious sister and freshly single after discovering the infidelities of her boyfriend. Sabi is looking for a meaning in her existence and thinks she has found one when a very dear person offers to move to Berlin to live with her, this just when her apparently rather conservative mother has just discovered the nature of her identity.
Fate will bifurcate Sabi’s trajectory like that of the people around her, too, in their own way, in a period of transition that will perhaps make them grow up without pathos or clichés. This is one of the great successes of this realistic comedy skilfully navigating between funny and dramatic moments and which is well worth the detour.
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