Season 1 Discussion

[Kirsty]

I enjoyed this show and I'm sorry they cancelled it. I really liked the vibe, the look and feel of it, the soundtrack, and the NYC setting. I liked Rob's vibe too. I haven't seen a female character like her before. I also want to highlight that scene with the shitty husband with the amazing record collection. You know when Rob and Clyde met him at the hotel? And he talked over her and ignored her and only spoke to Clyde and never introduced his girlfriend. I felt that. That shit is unfortunately extremely relatable.

I thought the first season firmly established Rob as a flawed character. She was a bit of an asshole, self-absorbed and obsessed with the past and with her relationship with Mac. To be honest, the show kinda told us that too many times in the finale especially.

I guess in the finale Rob acknowledges that she's an asshole, having come clean to Mac and everyone about cheating on him. And she acknowledged that she was selfish on the phone to her brother. And she tried to be unselfish by selling the Bowie record and buying the guitar for Cherise. She also let Mac go and apologised to Clyde. That's the arc and that's her progress.

But it felt unsatisfactory as an ending, because the show is a kind of rom-com and yet she had no legit romantic prospect on the horizon at the end. I thought the show invested way too much screen time in her relationship with Mac given that they had no future. I don't mind the character being obsessed with that relationship, but I minded the show giving us flashbacks all season when the writers knew the relationship was a dead end. And she obviously wasn't into Clyde enough. I was rooting against them by the end, based on how she treated him. And Liam is literally a teenager. Had the show been renewed, Id have liked a new main love interest for her in the second season.

But well played Zoe Kravitz, I enjoyed your Rob. Too bad the show got cancelled.

 

Edited January 6 by Kirsty