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I’ve just eaten an entire bag of Trader Joe’s horseradish and garlic potato chips and I’m sitting in bed very much regretting it… I’m also starting to feel the sleep-deprivation nausea coming on but I just had to pull out my computer and talk about this season because I just finished it and I’m mad about it.

This show is gonna have millennials in a chokehold. They’re gonna love it. And the writers are definitely millennial and millennial wannabe Gen X-ers. The Zendaya reference, the “it’s giving” “___ coded” “slay” – it’s really painful to watch. Both Kristen Bell and whatever his name is did a great job delivering their lines but they just looked like fools having robotic conversations sometimes cause the writing sucked. There were so many unnecessary lines that were written lazily, solely for the purpose of moving the story along. Like, “So, are you excited to meet her?” “Yes, I’m excited to meet both your parents for lunch today after we go shopping at “name of store”.

After I had already suffered through some moments that gave me SEVERE doses of second hand embarrassment (so bad that my face was going red I was scrunching up my features and screaming into my pillow) in the first few episodes (the fact that they managed to do that is genuinely the most interesting/funny thing about the show) the rest of the episodes were highly boring. And the writers sprinkled in profanity like Salt Bae sprinkles in seasoning – they thought the copious amount would be tasteful and funny, but it’s so hard to watch and leaves a terrible taste in your mouth.

And can we talk about how religion was painted in such a positive light in the beginning (ok, a positive light for Hollywood standards) and then the whole concept of everything this dude has every worked for his whole life – to be head rabbi, to lead his life and lead his congregation in a holy way, to make his family proud, is thrown away in the last minute of the film cause he can’t choose his faith AND his girl, like what the heck, Netflix. XD 😐

The amount of sex jokes and cheesy lines (as well as robotic ones) exposed this show for what it is – a sad attempt at creating a “new kind of Rom Com” that will never emerge successful and can never stand against others that contain good writing, wholesome romance, and good comedy without needing to mention sex 10 times in 5 minutes.