Max is certainly as promiscuous, darkly charismatic, arrogant, and reckless as Chuck, but his myriad sexual conquests include both girls and boys. Among the tightly knit group of troubled rich kids is Max (Thoams Doherty), who appears to be the roguish 'Chuck Bass' of this iteration.
The updated series takes place nine years later at the same elite private school and the same Upper East Side stomping grounds as its predecessor - with the caveat of social media, influencers, and this time, exorbitantly wealthy teens who appear to show some level of guilt and forced, scripted flickers of social consciousness. But in HBO Max's 'Gossip Girl' reboot, we see our most unapologetic representation of a male, bisexual character yet. Recent shows and movies, from Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in 'Loki' to Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) in 'The Good Place,' have offered light representation of bisexual characters living their best, most chaotic lives.
Bisexuality remains widely stigmatized and erased, either exoticized and hypersexualized, or denied and erased altogether, pending the gender of someone's current partner.
