I did not like Jamie and Roy being weirdly sexist about Keeley and physically fighting one another over her, only to have no real conclusion to that storyline. First of all, they handled their jealousy over Keeley better in previous seasons when the two of them were rivals and had a lot of growing to do… which makes it seem like they randomly regressed in this episode after they’ve both matured and become friends. Which is just stupid.
And second of all, the dialogue was so sexist and uncomfortable at times, like Jamie using the video Keeley previously made for him as proof they were meant to be together, when that video is irrelevant to the topic at hand and led to her getting hurt her earlier this season (which Jamie is well aware of). It’s a gross thing to brag about. Or how Roy thought he had any right to tell Jamie to back off and acted like a one night stand was proof he and Keeley would definitely get back together.
Or how they said the two guys said they would ‘let her’ decide which of them she wanted to be with, without an ounce of self awareness about how sexist and presumptuous that was until she kicked them out of her house. But then, that was the end of it. No other conversations or conclusions to that conflict other than some vague background moments with no dialogue that may or may not have been a dream sequence.
What was the point of all the buildup of their intertwined relationships throughout the entire show if the payoff was going to be so… empty and unconcluded?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think any of them should have gotten together this soon, since Roy really needs to work on himself emotionally and Keeley needs to have some time to herself and focus on other areas of her life right now. Jamie is arguably in the best place for a relationship, but wouldn’t have a partner ready for him in either (or both) of them right now. And I’m glad at least the stupid fight seemed to spark a realization in Roy that he had more growing to do.
But while I didn’t need the three of them to declare their love for each other in the finale, I’m disappointed with the weirdly possessive, jealous behavior from Roy and Jamie as well as the lack of any real resolution, and think all of these characters deserved better after everything they’ve been through together and the growing they’ve all done.
1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks
for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the
gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able
to own a home, much less earn a living wage.
2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still
$7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation,
it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially
young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.
3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done
everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box,
particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic
(like young people and POC). You staged a fucking coup the last time you
lost.
4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the
last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and
idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in
ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand
poverty.
5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass
shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons;
subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that
are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the NRA.
6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the
extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure
they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of
remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.
7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need
it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A
PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only
meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each
day
8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject
matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to
keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally
founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party
takes.
9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal
the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and
replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin
and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in
society.
10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that
are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and
intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to
overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.
11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our
nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and
financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect
the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth
and drag queens.
12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally
supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You
pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it
and it’s basically all you do.
13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason,
hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by
your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer
young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and
more.
14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the
mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay
for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small
fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.
15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens
United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of
corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the
American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich
donors.
16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity
with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in
schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to
your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting
age.
17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but
refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire
“administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of
the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed.
18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only
black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake
precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from
Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people
like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking
SCOTUS’ legitimacy).
19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or
execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white
criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex
trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.
20.) You are the reason we can’t pass:—Universal background checks—An
assault weapons ban—The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John
Lewis Voting Rights Act—The ERA & Equality Act—The Climate Action
Now Act—The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act—SCOTUS expansion.
21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the
American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can
impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of
their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily
autonomy.
22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and
Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into
their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.
