Almost family is a mess of a show, but I feel they did the “this is your first same sex relationship you should experiment” storyline much better than the bold type. What do you think?

Yeah, I think I agree with that. 

Full disclosure: I hated it in both shows! It’s such an odd plot to write in for characters having had a recent sexual awakening. I get that for straight people, the comparison would be, you don’t marry your first girlfriend (even though some people do) but when you like someone, the advice isn’t, well, I guess you better start dating a bunch of people just to make sure? If it’s about them not having had the same chance to explore that kind of relationship, this awakening didn’t happen in the abstract, they literally found a person they liked enough to reexamine their sexual identity! In this fictional, romanticized TV world where endgame romances are possible (despite the obstacles, how many of the other women in these shows are floating around the same male love interests we met in the first season/eps?), how does it make sense for these characters to want to do that at this point? 

So, having not liked it at all, obviously I’ll prefer a show doing what looks to be hopefully just a two-ep arc and not a full season (or two), and as a shipper, of course it’s nicer when the love interest is the one to say, go ahead and then it doesn’t work, instead of the person first kissing someone else and then it becoming a thing.