Dear TV Creators, could you please stop the "caught between two hunks" narrative? It's tiring.

Sincerely, a viewer.
How I wish I could go back in time – just so I could watch Younger with fresh eyes and be awed all over again.

I remember exactly what drove me to watch this formerly-interesting show. We had gotten two days off from work and the day before the long weekend, I was wondering what I was going to do with my life so like any other millennial, I turned to the internet. I ended up reading an article on StyleCaster (I cannot seem to find that piece anymore for some reason) recommending shows to binge-watch. Younger just so happened to be one of those shows and Stylecaster’s review was so convincing, I immediately bought the entire Season 1
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I was a little skeptical about the show at first seeing as it’s about a 40-year-old-woman who decides to live as a 26 year-old. There were two options with that storyline – either she eventually gets found out thereby making the show’s title obsolete (Hello Jane the Virgin) or the show completely milks the age thing and creates ridiculous ways to keep her secret (which Younger’s creator Daren Starr definitely settled for).


All these concerns melted away when I watched Liza’s hilarious interview after attempting to get back on the horse and most importantly when I saw Josh (Nico Tortorella) – who is an absolute dream and the reason the heroine (Liza) believed she could pass for 26. And he was actually into her. I would play the scene of him asking her out over and over again. So hot my goodness.

When Liza actually starts to attempt to pass as a 26-year-old, I’m a bit taken aback. For one, she looks nothing like 26 – the show could definitely have done better. All she basically does is let her hair down, apply a ridiculous (and dare I say obvious) amount of highlighter and wears a ludicrous combination of clothes that no 26 year old would ever wear – except of course they googled “how to dress like a 26 year old”. The dressing did get a little better. Just a little.

I still enjoyed the show despite the very obvious flaws. There were always sweet Josh moments to look forward to and the rest of the cast (except Liza’s roommate) had quite interesting lives.
When, Charles comes into Liza’s life, I start to realize that my love for the show may be shortlived. He’s mature, divorced and a book lover – the exact kind of man 40-year-old Liza would fall in love with. But so long as she didn’t realize it, I was great with the show.

Take a good look at this hunk.| Credit: Instagram/@YoungerTV


I knew that just like every other show that tries to make a big effing deal about how a woman is torn between two men ,I knew I wouldn’t be able to stomach the show.

The moment I realized Liza actually liked Charles – that moment in 2x07 where she refused to send a selfie she and Josh had taken in the hotel Charles paid for, I knew that was the end. That was the moment Younger lost its place in my heart. How could you possibly consider picking Charles over Josh? He looks like a dream; he is sweet, he is talented, he’s honest and he waited hours in a car for her while she drank with “the girls” all so she wouldn’t have to hold back on her drinking to drive home sober. He is the sweetest. How could anyone possibly want to choose someone else over him? Beats me.

Credit: Instagram/@YoungerTV

The problem is, the show is having way too much fun milking the “caught between two hunks” storyline. Their entire Instagram page is filled with pictures of Liza and the two hunks she can’t get enough of (along with lots of cute and half naked shots of Nico). Do we not have enough of these shows? The Vampire Dairies, True Blood, Jane the Virgin, Mistresses.. on and on it goes. Aren’t we tired of this narrative?

But the moment it went to absolute s**t was when Liza was to go to her old town (with colleagues) to commission a library (Younger 3x03 - "Last Day of Books"). I was a little curious as to how the show would preserve Liza’s identity in an episode where her semi-fake life crashes with her real life. And how did the show manage that? The chopper turned back mid-air because the self-entitled prick who was going to commission the library decided that he couldn’t do what Mark {Zuckerberg} had done. 


That’s it? That was their reason? Though, Younger had always leaned to the lighthearted side of the fence and never tried to be one of them "deep" shows, that scene was still disappointing. If you listen closely to the sound of the chopper making a roundabout mid-air, you will hear the sound of the breaking hearts of fans who expected better from the show.

I cannot say for sure if Liza stayed with Josh. But watching her mull over choosing Charles over Josh,  that was too much for me.

What do you think of the show?  Are you a fan of the "caught between two hunks" storyline?