started off with some level of promise but fell off a cliff right quick
absolutely did not have the conviction to follow through on the time jump and everything it meant, that a high school not-couple who had an unplanned baby together would naturally drift apart, Oly giving uni a real go while balancing it with motherhood, Santi having a stable job and the life of someone doing physical labor all day, each of them pursuing their own romantic relationships while co-parenting. all of these were set up and just absolutely never developed and just forgotten about maybe 2-3 episodes in
instead, we got more extremely obnoxious young characters who were extremely annoying (who is writing the young characters?? fifty-year-olds with no perception of young people?!). Vince being part of a not-throuple and being a surrogate could've been interesting but the premise was far funnier on paper than the execution as the couple having his surrogate were some of the most annoying characters committed to paper played by actresses without an ounce of ability to survive the atrocious writing (again, who's writing these characters? someone who read a listicle of 'top 10 annoying gen z stereotypes' and decided to make characters based solely on that??). it would've been interesting to see what new friends oly makes in school but they end up bringing back a lot of old characters who allegedly have changed and matured after ~5 years but are all annoying as all get out when they come back.
it was extremely evident early on that they were gonna push oly and santi back together and their respective relationships had absolutely no meaning and nowhere to develop or deepen once that was obvious. oly's TA b/f was sort of interesting at first but the show immediately nerfed him into being some weird socially awkward dweeb. santi actually had a pretty nice g/f (Keeks) who was played by a far better and more interesting young actress than pretty much any other young actor on the show but she was thrown aside in service of the show contriving oly and santi back together. honestly if you're gonna break them up have the conviction to follow through on it for more than 5 episodes before attempting to push them back together.
their respective families have absolutely nothing to do and are given empty nothing stupid storylines throughout the season (i still love the energy Bowie brings to the show even if he was reduced to hey wanna bang no okay through season 3). the actor for Matias is just totally absent in s3 while they unfortunately kept Don around who continues to grate so much. his acting always felt out of step with the show over-playing the baffoon-y dad and he continues to just suck up oxygen in any scene he's in.
lord please cancel this show because i do not have the willpower to prevent myself from further hatewatching
Review by BobDole12BlockedParentSpoilers2023-02-26T11:35:30Z
started off with some level of promise but fell off a cliff right quick
absolutely did not have the conviction to follow through on the time jump and everything it meant, that a high school not-couple who had an unplanned baby together would naturally drift apart, Oly giving uni a real go while balancing it with motherhood, Santi having a stable job and the life of someone doing physical labor all day, each of them pursuing their own romantic relationships while co-parenting. all of these were set up and just absolutely never developed and just forgotten about maybe 2-3 episodes in
instead, we got more extremely obnoxious young characters who were extremely annoying (who is writing the young characters?? fifty-year-olds with no perception of young people?!). Vince being part of a not-throuple and being a surrogate could've been interesting but the premise was far funnier on paper than the execution as the couple having his surrogate were some of the most annoying characters committed to paper played by actresses without an ounce of ability to survive the atrocious writing (again, who's writing these characters? someone who read a listicle of 'top 10 annoying gen z stereotypes' and decided to make characters based solely on that??). it would've been interesting to see what new friends oly makes in school but they end up bringing back a lot of old characters who allegedly have changed and matured after ~5 years but are all annoying as all get out when they come back.
it was extremely evident early on that they were gonna push oly and santi back together and their respective relationships had absolutely no meaning and nowhere to develop or deepen once that was obvious. oly's TA b/f was sort of interesting at first but the show immediately nerfed him into being some weird socially awkward dweeb. santi actually had a pretty nice g/f (Keeks) who was played by a far better and more interesting young actress than pretty much any other young actor on the show but she was thrown aside in service of the show contriving oly and santi back together. honestly if you're gonna break them up have the conviction to follow through on it for more than 5 episodes before attempting to push them back together.
their respective families have absolutely nothing to do and are given empty nothing stupid storylines throughout the season (i still love the energy Bowie brings to the show even if he was reduced to hey wanna bang no okay through season 3). the actor for Matias is just totally absent in s3 while they unfortunately kept Don around who continues to grate so much. his acting always felt out of step with the show over-playing the baffoon-y dad and he continues to just suck up oxygen in any scene he's in.
lord please cancel this show because i do not have the willpower to prevent myself from further hatewatching