Just finished s7
I finished season 7 in one day mostly just to get it over with. Ummmmmmm how did we feel? Here are some thoughts and some fantasy endings I have (mostly just to vent).
This was my first watch and I’m kinda mid on it all. I hate how they wrote off Diana, someone who loooved her job and never took a day off. It would have been cool for her to come back as a silent investor in Kelsey’s company. I do like that her and Enzo got together in the end, it did seem like a good match for her.
Kelsey cooonstantly thinks with her vagina and it diminishes a lot of what women work so hard to go against. Same with Liza tbh. And the show (and viewers) give them so much flack when Charles and Zane and Bjorn (lol callback) and probably more men did the exact same thing of shitting where they eat. And yet we focus sooo much on them two. In the end, Zane makes publisher when his career was pretty bleak, Charles gets his company back as publisher and that doesn’t sit right with me either. I think the writers did Charles’ kids dirty. They’ve been through so much with their mom disappearing, reappearing, Liza, Quinn, that perfect philanthropist woman in between. Idk, if you’re dating around so much, maybe don’t involve the kids.
Maggie was supposed to be the sexually free, eff society and she ends up with someone who needed the justification of “love and hate are different sides of the same coin”??? Maggie would never. I would’ve preferred her and Lauren ffs.
Liza should have left Empirical. Her daughter is old enough and clearly the publishing world in NY still has thoughts about her coverup as seen in the musical number. I would have loved to see a little woman-power thing with her, Kelsey and Clare in LA. A software developer, a publisher and an editor making their own talent acquisition and publishing house.
Josh is doing great, but man are him and Liza not a good match. I think he has a big focus on sex with Liza in that relationship and they didn’t really get along other than that. I think him and another artist would have had more chemistry. So fanfic version, he meets an art prof at the place Maggie was working and they hit it off.
Overall, I think this show tried to make a thing out of “age isn’t everything” and “womanhood”. But all I see are women making terrible career decisions based on hormones (annoying stereotype) and an overall message that your age is the reason that things don’t work out. Pretty bleak, women constantly lie to each other and make others feel bad and honestly, it was a tough watch to see not much character development over 7 seasons.