#youmeher

Series I watched in 2019 35/63

⚠️ spoiler warning ⚠ SPOILERS for You Me Her Seasons 1..5

I just finished watching Season 5 and I'm a mocktails blender of emotions. I'd think that I'd be a compersion champ for our heros' "Happily ever after", but my dominant emotion is: I {tries not to cry} miss them soo much! My unrealistic parasocial obsession relationship with these fictional characters should not be this strong. (Quick aside: if you feel the same way, then season one, episode 3 is a snugly blanket of joy, that I can recommend for anyone that is failing refusing to go cold-turkey on this "relationship"... with fictional characters. [I keep saying fictional characters to let you know that I'm not entirely off my rocker... even though some part of me is unable to disengage the "suspension of disbelieve drive" and "knows" that EJI are somewhere, (a world away) living the life that they deserve, and that I want for them, {and for myself.}]) Where was I? Oh yes: review. I thought that Season 5 was tight. I (mostly) didn't worry that the story would deprive us of the ending that I wanted, (we have "reality" for that.) I think that Izzy giving birth could have been a little more convincing if she has done some cardio and been spritzed with water, (not that it mattered to me, as I'm here for their relationship dynamic and watching them stumble about like drunken savannah ungulates.) Everything that helps to deconstruct, The Normal (tm) can benefit everyone: it helps those that are "presuming their way through life" to realise the actual diversity of desires; needs; likes; wants... and how that diversity can help each of us accept each other and permit the minorities in our society have some [redacted: swearing] dignity. (When everyone's unique, no one is strange.) I'm far too afraid to live my authentic life and hope, (possibly delusionally) that the existence of You Me Her will enable some people to comfortable live their truth. If this is my last entry, then I'd like to thank Rachel Blanchard, Priscilla Faia, Greg Poehler, Melanie Papalia, Jennifer Spence, Ennis Esmer, Patrick Gilmore, John S. Shepherd, and all of the rest of the cast and crew that made #YouMeHer exist. The story y'all told touch and moved me in ways that very few people seem to understand. I'm off to make some tea and pretend that my friends EJI just moved to another country and that I can enjoy the surprisingly well crafted home-videos of their lives.

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