Sell me on Allie & Dean
I love the series, I really do, but I'm ambivalent about season 2 largely because it's going to focus on Allie and Dean.
I started off liking Allie a lot.
Firstly she is great with Hannah, absolutely brilliant friend, wise and understanding.
She had to put up with Sean and it sounds like she had a pattern of rolling over based on what he wanted from a relationship and putting up with his lukewarm support. I was glad for her when she moved on from that.
The thing I struggle with is why Dean would want to be with her. She's hot and sexually confident and that's all great, but in terms of everything else, why?
In episode 8 when Dean is struggling emotionally and reaches out to her for support (which probably took some courage) her response is to climb in his window, tell him they need to sleep with other people, and then leave. No curiosity about what he's upset about, no offer to help, nothing. She's almost the opposite of Hannah in episode 5 supporting Garrett.
"You're upset about something, cool, we should sleep with other people, bye."
In a romance series the goal should be for the female (or male attracted) viewers to understand why they'd want to be with the male lead, and vice versa. As a guy I'm not sure I'd want someone like Allie who only ever talked about her needs and overtly wasn't interested in mine.
I think I'm hoping someone can reassure me it will get better! At the moment I think Allie is brilliant as Hannah's friend, but quite offputting as a romantic lead.