The Bisexual Bombshell in ABC Family's "Make It Or Break It" Finale

 
Joshua Bowman as Max on ABC Family's Make It or Break It

Leave it to an ABC Family low-budget scripted teen drama to quietly air what might be the best representation of male bisexuality ever on American television.

Make It Or Break It centers around a group of young aspiring gymnasts. The core cast and story focuses on the U.S. female team, but the boys do make an appearance — and one just gave us a scene that has me so stunned I’m struggling to find words.

To give you some idea of what this show is like, if you are not familiar, it’s sort of Degrassi meets Friday Night Lights with a dash of Dallas thrown in. There is no denying it is basically a teen soap opera. That’s neither a good nor a bad thing — it just is. I don’t think this show is out to win Emmys.

MIOBI has some familiar faces in the cast: Kathy Najimy is on hand as a conniving stage mother. Frasier’s Peri Gelpin also plays mother to one of the girls. Her husband is played by Brett Cullen, a familiar face to viewers of Ugly Betty, Friday Night Lights and Lost. There’s also Sean Maher, whom some of you might remember from Firefly.

Sean Maher, serving up the beefcake on Firefly

But really, the character we're most interested in here is Max, and he is played by Joshua Bowman — who clearly could have a future on the Hot 100.

Two of Max's female teammates  are fighting over him, but Max really only seems to be interested in a girl named Payson. Still, when she declares her love for him, Max is stunned and completely at a loss for words.

Zane Holtz as Austin Tucker

Later, one of Max's male teammates, Austin, finds him alone, drinking Scotch. That alone would probably horrify the family values folks, but the real shocker is what happens next: Max laments to Austin that tonight “one girl offered me her body, the other her love, and I couldn’t say yes to either of them.”

And then this happens...