At the end of season 2 we saw that all the family members are doing well for themselves. Brooke is engaged now to her boyfriend but she has this insecurity of wanting to do good. She leaves the industry but whatever she tries, she doesn't enjoy. She always feel like others are judging her, which also leads to a rift and eventual breakup of engagement. Cary is going through his own motions of doing something successful and then again shooting himself straight in the foot. This time things go too far because first he takes his friends for granted and eventually they have had enough, so they all leave him. And secondly the method actor boyfriend he finds, is always so much into the character that they never have sex. Chase is now 18 and is being forced to be a couple with a famous influencer. He likes a simple girl but when things dont work out, we see the entire PR agency to his rescue. And finally, Pat, the mother, is having a hard time breaking free from hers and finds much of her existence blocked off as she needs extra security everywhere she goes, even having to plan days in advance for a stroll in Central Park.
To be honest, even though the themes and subject chosen and the dialogues given were sharp at multiple places, I just didn't find them funny. The characters, especially of Cary and Brooke become so alienable that IMO they take a nosedive. You can only push a character's unlikability so far -- and Brooke and Cary became unwatchable and also somehow became repeatable. They are stuck in the same ridiculous storylines of being miserable people without any sign of development and this just keeps getting repeated. They are extremely self absorbed and irritating. Also just because it's somewhat self aware, doesn't make it funny. Even the specific gay content of Cary not having sex and his friends was also just meh! The only funny stuff that I found was probably for the teenager singer Chase (closely resembling that of a popular pop singer in every way). To be fair to the show it does take up some very important topics that our relevant to today's generation wrapped up in comedy and satire but they fail to register, at least for me. I was reading online and this season, lie the previous ones, is still received glorious reviews, but this season just did not do it for me. So much so that it took me weeks and months to just finish it. (3/10)
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