
Show: Casual
Character Status: Regular
Current LI: Male
Current Season: On Show
Endgame: TBD
Orientation: Bisexual
Show Status: Still Airing
Tropes: Bisexual Erasure, Just an Experiment, Substance Abuse, Sweeps
Show: Casual
Character Status: Regular
Current LI: Male
Current Season: On Show
Endgame: TBD
Orientation: Bisexual
Show Status: Still Airing
Tropes: Bisexual Erasure, Just an Experiment, Substance Abuse, Sweeps
In comedy-drama Casual, Laura is a teenager and is portrayed as confident in her sexuality. In Season 1, she pursued her teacher, Michael, but was rejected, and was later shown having sex in a hot tub with her boyfriend, Emile.
In Season 2, she met Aubrey and they got high together and kissed; their relationship became sexual the next episode. Aubrey invited Laura to come to a party where they decided to take suggestive pictures in their underwear for their schoolmate Spencer, who they learned was hospitalized because of cancer.
Their photo session lead to them having sex again. In the next episode (2×07), Laura suggested that she and Aubrey should have a threesome with Spencer, after they learn that he was given only six months to live. Aubrey agreed and three of them had sex, off screen.
Though Aubrey thought that there was something deeper between her and Laura, Laura told her everything between them was just casual fun for her and she just wanted to be friends.
Laura developed feelings for Spencer, and eventually started a relationship with him while Aubrey left the show in 2×09. Spencer was diagnosed as terminal, but in 2×12 it was revealed that an experimental treatment worked and Spencer’s diagnosis was reversed.
Spencer told Laura in 2×12, after learning he was going to be OK, that “we can do anything,”. Laura, a commitment-phobe, was initially scared but in the finale she apologized to him and seemed ready to continue a serious relationship with Spencer.
Season 3 will be released on Hulu May 23rd 2017.
Relationship story arc with a woman: No
Relationship story arc with a man: Yes
Storyline during sweeps? Yes, summer sweeps.
[1] A relationship story arc is defined as explicit, developed on screen, and lasting more than 3 episodes. It is listed as questionable or subtext if romance is only implied, mentioned instead of shown on screen, part of a dream sequence, or otherwise not explicit for the viewer.
[2] Sweeps episodes air in February, May, July and November, the periods when advertising rates are set. A character is marked as "sweeps" when there is a very limited number of episodes that address their sexuality, all air during sweeps period, and the storyline is otherwise ignore/dropped.
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