Ramwina

I found this show in April 2020, when the world was going to shit. It allowed me to escape into the GG world and just forget the messed up reality that was happening outside our houses. Then, I found this fandom and realized that I wasn’t crazy for being obsessed with this show.

As a 42-year old mom, i saw myself in each of the girls and it was empowering. I am a business owner and thankfully don’t have the economic hardships the girls experienced, but i found a kinship with them unlike anything else i have experienced before. I have been able to relate to Beth’s desire to be something “more” and her struggle of balance .

And , of course, i was sucked into the Brio chemistry and have been able to appreciate Rio’s …..everything.

The cancellation is not a shock, as many shows end and this is part of tv. An ending had to happen at one point.

I think what makes me the saddest, and even frustrated, is the lack of balance between what the writers wanted and what had worked in earlier seasons and what made the show popular (albeit with a small minority, i know it was never a super big hit). But it seemed like after 2.13, the writers felt obligated to continue the shithole they created with that ending and then fell down that path and absolutely refused to backtrack.

Pride definitely seemed to take over and they were insistent on proving that their plan and vision for the show (after 2.13) was brilliant. How much better (for us fans, haha, but probably for their damn ratings as well) would it have been to : acknowledge the shooting, have them discuss it, deal with it and then move the storyline along to other things. It didn’t even necessarily need to be hot-sex Brio, but just something different than the last year and a half of this cat and mouse of “i want to kill him”, etc. Diversifying that storyline would have allowed for richer and deeper developments of the other characters and propelled the show forward in another way.

But wouldn’t it be easier on him and all the fans if maybe, just maybe, they were a bit more clear on the show with where they are taking the storyline?

Angels are usually shirtless, in most artistic depictions, which Dean obviously is in the jacuzzi (gross, i know). Angels are usually smiling and happy, which Dean is in the jacuzzi.

The devil is usually in black, fully clothed and not smiling. Both Beth and Rio are in black, fully clothed and definitely not smiling in those ending car scenes .

We all know that Beth is a curvy woman. They have never tried to hide that before and I don’t feel like it has ever been downplayed in any way by the way they have dressed her. But....BUT!!! Why in God’s green earth did they feel like they needed a body double with a perfectly flat stomach?????? Not only is it completely unrealistic, based on anyone looking at Beth’s body the last four seasons, but I am sure there has got to be at least one curvy body-double in all of Hollywood that they could have found.

The message this sends is quite troubling, in terms of the ideal body. So, as viewers, we are supposed to be dumb enough to believe that a mom of FOUR kids and a woman that has enormous breasts has a completely flat stomach???? It’s ridiculously unrealistic, and further perpetuates the “ideal” body, which is actually anything but ideal. For a show that is supposed to be all about female empowerment and positivity, they missed a huge chance to prove that.

Dr Doctor,

Just wanted to let you know that i took your advice and when i went to a bar for a business meeting, you would be proud to know i asked for a non-alcoholic non-caffeinated drink.

Thank you,

Beth Boland!