For once, I'd say yes, within both the confines of a sitcom-length show with 10 episodes and the additional challenge they'd imposed on themselves to follow rom com beats. Especially since they're determined to make it difficult.
Like of course my platonic ideal of queer relationships on telly are things like BS, which took five seasons to tell its queer love stories, She-Ra, which did about the same, or things like Good Omens and Guardian (which I would argue are not examples of queerbaiting for different reasons) with, respectively, 6000 and 10,000 years of the characters pining for each other. But it's not so much the speed for me as the emotional journey, the "fuck, I love this person who everyone around me has told me is not a possibility in any way." And it does that beautifully and painfully.
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Date: 2022-04-07 11:08 am (UTC)Like of course my platonic ideal of queer relationships on telly are things like BS, which took five seasons to tell its queer love stories, She-Ra, which did about the same, or things like Good Omens and Guardian (which I would argue are not examples of queerbaiting for different reasons) with, respectively, 6000 and 10,000 years of the characters pining for each other. But it's not so much the speed for me as the emotional journey, the "fuck, I love this person who everyone around me has told me is not a possibility in any way." And it does that beautifully and painfully.