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This one felt like a small misstep, pretty much for the reasons you cite. Tao friend breaking up with Charlie and Charlie almost breaking up with Nick with the two fights felt like the show veering into melodrama in a way that it has avoided up until now. Maybe it points to a somewhat bigger problem with the pacing of the show: Once Charlie and Nick are together the obvious next step is for Nick to come out, and everything that delays that needs to justify its existence in the narrative. The previous three episodes have handled the slow play pretty well, but this one as the darkness before the dawn felt artificial.

I'm kind of changing my mind about the casting. These actors are fine for the roles as written (mostly - I still think Joe Stockton looks too old, older that Kit Connor anyway). But the script makes them sound and act more like old 16-17s than young 15-16s. Just aging up the characters on paper would have relieved a lot of that dissonance.

Also, where's Isaac? String? String? Where the fuck is Isaac?

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