This is getting annoying. Both Brooke and Cary are so stuck in their artificial drama, it's frustrating they're both being so stupid!
All season, Brooke has been up in her own head that COINCIDENTALLY many people in her life have ended up in Doing Good roles, leaving her exceedingly drowning in White Guilt (i.e. Feeling guilty over nothing you're responsible for, nothing you have any reason to feel guilt over). In Season 2 she had achieved the success and income she yearned for all series long by doing a job she enjoyed and was good at! The dream! But was it good enough for her? No, she quits her perfect job in a misguided mental breakdown where she is obsessed with appearing to Do Good, capital D, capital G. She tries empty vapid thing after empty vapid thing to appear better, but it doesn't work because they're empty vapid things. FINALLY she realizes that quitting was a mistake and rejoins the industry, but taints it by STILL being too focused on Doing Good. Last episode's missteps in the name of Doing Good leads to trying to fix it with the titular event. Ugh. Meanwhile, if Brooke were NORMAL, she'd realize that her desire to Do Good is already commendable, look for opportunities to Do Good, there's no need to dedicate your life to it, there's nothing wrong with enjoying how her life is going, giving up the good in her life misses the point, and she doesn't have sacrifice her happiness to Do Good. And if she looked at Lance in particular, she could see that you can be happy AND do good. That's another thing, Lance was nothing but supportive, yet she breaks up with him for the judgement she FELT, but he wasn't doing! This is emotionally unhealthy!
Then there's Cary. He complains he's not successful enough to go to his reunion. Uh, what? Beginning-Of-This-Episode Cary has done several things of notice, enough that his airplane video went viral. Pilot Cary would want to smack this Cary for being so unappreciative of what he's achieved, particularly his notoriety! He's famous in his own right, now, not piggybacking on Chase's fame any more. Strangers recognize him. HOW is this not enough for him to shine at his reunion? He is too stuck on not being successful enough for his own liking, he can never satisfy himself because each small step he takes feels insignificant because he's already there. Pilot Cary would be ecstatic at the thought of having regular work on a Netflix show, but here and now it's nothing to care about. And last episode Cary lost all his gaggle of friends because his obsession with success has clouded his humanity, he couldn't support his main friend when he looked more successful. How shallow is that?
BOTH Cary and Brooke are too focused on comparing themselves to others, particularly when none of the others are doing it! It's made them blind to the good things in their lives, losing them some of the things they have. Neither has any friends any more, nobody to confide in. It's getting unpleasant to watch, seeing these two people we USED to root for become such unsympathetic people, all alone because they drove everyone away. NOW the only good I wish for them is that they get back to being the people they were before, otherwise I don't care about them. Their characters have suffered for the sake of the comedy, and, sorry, they don't have to have crappy lives to be funny.
All season, Brooke has been up in her own head that COINCIDENTALLY many people in her life have ended up in Doing Good roles, leaving her exceedingly drowning in White Guilt (i.e. Feeling guilty over nothing you're responsible for, nothing you have any reason to feel guilt over). In Season 2 she had achieved the success and income she yearned for all series long by doing a job she enjoyed and was good at! The dream! But was it good enough for her? No, she quits her perfect job in a misguided mental breakdown where she is obsessed with appearing to Do Good, capital D, capital G. She tries empty vapid thing after empty vapid thing to appear better, but it doesn't work because they're empty vapid things. FINALLY she realizes that quitting was a mistake and rejoins the industry, but taints it by STILL being too focused on Doing Good. Last episode's missteps in the name of Doing Good leads to trying to fix it with the titular event. Ugh. Meanwhile, if Brooke were NORMAL, she'd realize that her desire to Do Good is already commendable, look for opportunities to Do Good, there's no need to dedicate your life to it, there's nothing wrong with enjoying how her life is going, giving up the good in her life misses the point, and she doesn't have sacrifice her happiness to Do Good. And if she looked at Lance in particular, she could see that you can be happy AND do good. That's another thing, Lance was nothing but supportive, yet she breaks up with him for the judgement she FELT, but he wasn't doing! This is emotionally unhealthy!
Then there's Cary. He complains he's not successful enough to go to his reunion. Uh, what? Beginning-Of-This-Episode Cary has done several things of notice, enough that his airplane video went viral. Pilot Cary would want to smack this Cary for being so unappreciative of what he's achieved, particularly his notoriety! He's famous in his own right, now, not piggybacking on Chase's fame any more. Strangers recognize him. HOW is this not enough for him to shine at his reunion? He is too stuck on not being successful enough for his own liking, he can never satisfy himself because each small step he takes feels insignificant because he's already there. Pilot Cary would be ecstatic at the thought of having regular work on a Netflix show, but here and now it's nothing to care about. And last episode Cary lost all his gaggle of friends because his obsession with success has clouded his humanity, he couldn't support his main friend when he looked more successful. How shallow is that?
BOTH Cary and Brooke are too focused on comparing themselves to others, particularly when none of the others are doing it! It's made them blind to the good things in their lives, losing them some of the things they have. Neither has any friends any more, nobody to confide in. It's getting unpleasant to watch, seeing these two people we USED to root for become such unsympathetic people, all alone because they drove everyone away. NOW the only good I wish for them is that they get back to being the people they were before, otherwise I don't care about them. Their characters have suffered for the sake of the comedy, and, sorry, they don't have to have crappy lives to be funny.
