Mindy Kaling’s show runs smoothest when it doesn’t try to teach you things.
For starters, the girls — soccer star Whitney , sweet dork Kimberly , aspiring comedian Bela , and legacy admit Leighton — are already friends, which means the show doesn’t have to work so hard to convince us that four very different people with zero campus overlap would become a clique. They wouldn’t! But it’s fine. They’re funny together, so I’m happy to suspend my disbelief.
But Season 1 spends far less time on this horrifying revelation than on the fact that Nico , Kimberly’s trimester-long fling, had a secret girlfriend the whole time. The abuse scandal plays second fiddle to a frat bro’s dishonesty. Then, in a single line with which the show attempts to retrieve its own wayward politics, Whitney’s standoffish teammate Jena reassures her, “Dalton is clearly the problem here. He’s older, and he was your coach.
There are, as ever, major oversights in the show’s smug pseudofeminism. Why is Leighton, famed lesbian, who spent last season recoiling from the interest of a six-packed frat bro, checking out neighbor Jackson’s muscles with the other girls? It’s because the show secretly thinks girlhood and female friendship depend on ogling men,. It’s the same reason so many of Lila’s and Jocelyn’s punchlines are about lusting after dudes.
But the show’s strength has never been its internal logic. Creator Mindy Kaling favors soap-operatic pivots and flourishes; 2020’s, about the sex lives of high school girls, unfurls in a string of convenient choices. After the main character, Devi , spends an episode working up the courage to ask her impossibly hot crush, Paxton , to have sex with her, he agrees without missing a beat. It makes the whole lead-up fall a bit flat, but hey! Onto the next thing.
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