Desiree Akhavan’s new, raw comedy debuts on Hulu. And Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest film is on Netflix.

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THE BISEXUAL on Hulu. Desiree Akhavan thinks that her show’s title will turn off a lot of viewers. “I want to know why that is, and to stand by it,” she recently told The New York Times. “I know that I’m playing the long game and I want you to watch this thing and be like ‘Oh, it’s not what I thought it would be.’” Following her exploration earlier this year of anti-gay “conversion therapy” in “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (a film for which she was director and a writer), Akhavan’s debut TV show tells a coming-out story from the perspective of Leila, an Iranian-American woman in London played by Akhavan. After moving out of a flat she shared with her longtime girlfriend (Maxine Peake), Leila gains a new flatmate — Gabe (Brian Gleeson), a Straight White Man (capital letters warranted). She also for the first time wants to date men.