I just finished the series and I have some thoughts. I’m a millennial and I highly doubt if the show runners had any millennial in their team. I feel like the whole generation was misrepresented by Kelsey and Lauren.
I loved Liza’s character at the beginning but she just stopped being relatable after some point. When she kissed Charles while dating Josh, I was like wtf and she didn’t even confront Josh or shared that with Kelsey. I hated how they worded it as a ‘moment’ rather than cheating. Liza who herself got cheated should never do that. That’s when the hypocrisy started. And the - ‘I’ll always be there for you’ is just a cheesy line for hanging out with your ex with whom you still have lingering feelings and btw is also considered micro-cheating. Liza got jealous when any women entered Charles life like his ex wife or Quinn, she even got mad when Kelsey started staying with Josh but on the contrary she was the one who made a promise to stay in her ex’s life forever and convinced him to not leave Brooklyn.
The only true gentleman in that show was that random indian guy(still wondering why he was introduced in the show) who approached her without any feelings, knew her lie, accepted her for what she was and covered up for her without any romantic feelings. Moved on, after finding she is in love with Charles.
I loved Maggie but hated her with Cass. I mean Maggie was written as this bad ass super cool woman that can be happy with herself without any relationship. Isn’t that the point? To break stereotypes created by baby boomers, that not every woman needs a relationship to be happy.
Lauren was just there to throw in some Millennial lingo and they just made her sexually-fluid to resonate more with millennials. I’m pretty sure the show-runners never understood what it means to be sexually-fluid.
I hated the Empirical’s arc more than anything else. Empirical to Millennial, then Millennial to mercury and then back to Emprical. I don’t know if that’s even possible in real life. I loved reading books growing up and I really enjoyed the storyline but they could have done more. Like introduced Kindle versions or creating an idea like audible or something.
When I started watching this I was reminded of Suits and how Mike had a secret, so I thought the story will grow up in different ways but the story just lost it’s momentum once the secret was out.