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Oh, absolutely, that storyline is absurd in any case, but I like the way Edie is like “why should I kiss other women?” (cause honestly why should she), and doing it just for Amanda instead of it being presented as a rite of passage. But you’re right it’s a stupid plot

Exactly! That’s what I really did not like in TBT’s treatment of it, that it was just like, a regular and expected thing. What did that say about people recently realizing they weren’t straight? That they couldn’t be expected to be faithful, they’d just NEED to sow their oats? Get it out of their system? It wasn’t any kind of actual exploration of open relationships of polyamory, instead it was about a newly bi person apparently needing to explore while the other person just…waited. 

Much prefer the way Edie handled it like, oh, that’s what you expect of me? And then being like, actually, that was dumb, why would I go through all that to be with you to then play around with other people? (Though of course, not sure why she’s so upset that Amanda’s still influenced by her ex, considering what she went through with Tim.)

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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.

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Lmao oh don’t get me wrong, I have no chill about almost family and it completely pisses me off, but a lot of things piss me off so it hasn’t been a deal breaker yet. Glad I’m not the only one putting up with it for Edia (and Amanda) tho lol. But I think Amanda deserves a million times better than Edie, who’s been treating her (and Tim) like total shit. I honestly hate their plots lol. The thing that angers me most is the dad tho! The show wants me to be sympathetic to a rapist psychopath (1/2)

And I’m totally not here for it. The dad isn’t sympathetic. He’s a monster and it pisses me off that they have all these women coming to defend him when he’s clearly disgusting. I think the worst so far has been what they did w Edie’s mom. Having a black woman carry water for a God complex white man who went around sexually assaulting women asdfghjkl SEE THIS IS WHY THIS SHOWS A TRAINWRECK but I’m not invested in it so there’s that. I can’t compare to glee Bc I was gone af for Santana lol (2/2)

Lol, LOOK AT ALL THE WAYS THIS SHOW SUCKS but I’m not mad. 😛 But no, I get you. I think I’m just mad that it’s so egregious and so needlessly so. Like, critics were mad at the first eps at how they’re softballing the dad so like…stop? Surely not all these eps were shot before the first were released? Or maybe they were, it’s hard to remember we’ve only had seven eps so far, it feels like this show’s been going on forever.

The last ep was the first time I was mad at Edie, before then, it’s been a somewhat understandable back and forth for someone who’s closeted and dealing with major identity issues, but we’re supposed to now understand that ep 6, that ambush in court, was Edie “choosing”? Not even just…telling Amanda? After telling her she was falling in love with her? And then going over to hang out with Lorenzo? This is literally why Amanda didn’t want him involved! If you’ve made your choice, cut things off! I don’t know what Edie wants, tbh. And I don’t think the show does either. I think they’ll just do whatever’s convenient for that ep and hope the audience will do the heavy lifting and come up with some reason. We know her mom isn’t homophobic, so is it about…trying to project a perfect image? Is it about not wanting to hurt Tim? But you don’t choose someone to live the rest of your life with and say you love when it’s about not hurting them. Before the affair with Amanda even started she could barely be with Tim. “Sorry you picked such a broken person to be married to”, like, where is the brokenness coming from! 

Also, how are we just not really getting any reaction from the kids on how terrible the dad is? Just vague allusions to compartmentalizing, but like, the point should be that it’s barely working, that their disgust and conflict is just suppressed. Instead, it’s like, yay, sisters, and Edie and Julia actually happy that the case to defend their garbage father is going well. Every female character is spending way too much time defending him. 

But anywayyy. Yeah. Heh. 

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Almost family is a trainwreck of a show and I’m not sure why I’m still watching. Prolly 95% Bc I think Edie is gorgeous, but also Bc there’s nothing really good on tv that I look forward to watching rn so this is kind of comfortably bad? Like I can’t really be disappointed in it Bc I already know it’s a complete mess so I’m just like eh let’s see what happens next lol.

I am 200% watching for Edie and her outfits and chemistry with Amanda, because I have not learned your zen, anon, and actually get like, angry. I’m just constantly like, why you are acting like that? Why would you say that? When were we supposed to pick up this sudden new development you’re acting like was implied at all before this moment? And most of all, why are they acting like we should sympathize with the dad??