This one had totally passed me by. However, the Guardian's top TV of 2022 list included the second season of this show. Both are currently on the iPlayer though, so I decided to go back to the beginning. I enjoyed this blend of romantic comedy and drama and found Anna Kendrick to be an engaging lead.
Darby Carter (Anna Kendrick) is a young woman living in New York. Over several years we see her life and lives of her friends, unfold with a particular focus on the formative nature of the relationships that Darby has. Though her romantic relationships are important, it's perhaps the ones with her mother (Hope Davis) and best friend Sara (Zoe Chou) that are the most significant.
I think perhaps the persistent criticism I saw online for this show, is that it's a bit slight and that's probably fair. It relies a lot on Kendrick, both to keep her character on the right side of likeable and to deliver almost all of the funny lines. A broader show might have made the various men more unlikeable and rougher but with perhaps one exception they're mostly just regular guys and the relationships don't work out because that's what happens most of the time. Even deeper issues, like Sara's alcoholism are largely breezed over, save for one particularly sad moment in an episode devoted to that relationship.
I think it's the right decision though to move on to focus on somebody else for the second run, which I'll go on to now. I understand that the show will be cancelled after this second season so I'll not get too into it and I'm not sure I'll remember this at all in a few months, but it was reasonable whilst it lasted.