Word: the next article comprises spoilers about this week’s episode of And Simply Like That.
I’ve been merrily hate-watching And Simply Like That since its inception, feebly accepting that once-beloved characters are actually shells of themselves and that Aidan, he of leather-based twine necklace notoriety, would ever put on that jacket. Its newest episode, nevertheless, transgressed from inane to insulting for its dealing with—mishandling—of Lisa Todd Wexley’s being pregnant.
Within the dwindling moments of final week’s installment, the conflicted AJLT fandom realized that LTW (the resplendent Ari Nicole Parker)—established documentarian and certified-hot Higher East Facet personal college mother—was pregnant. This week’s episode reveals that Lisa is understandably devastated by this growth: She already has three school-age youngsters that her husband barely helps with, together with a teen sufficiently old to have intercourse together with his girlfriend on the Mandarin Oriental, and PBS simply determined to make a 10-part collection of her documentary. (“They’re Ken-Burns-ing you,” Miranda quips.)
LTW tearfully unloads her child information whereas perusing classic Italian glassware with Charlotte.“How did this occur?” Lisa laments. “I assumed I moved out of Babyville.” What she says subsequent feels gutting: “Goddammit, I assumed it was lastly my time.”
For a fleeting second, AJLT really gained with its relatively-little-seen depiction of a fortunately married mom’s unhappiness about anticipating. That’s actual. As a 41-year-old mom of two, I’ve been a part of numerous comparable conversations with pals. Being married and being a mother doesn’t imply that each being pregnant is welcome, for therefore many causes. However then, simply as rapidly, the present drops the dramatic ball.
And Simply Like That, a collection that’s clunkily and openly obsessive about so-called wokeness, proceeds to faux abortion isn’t an possibility for Lisa, a girl of maximum privilege in New York, a state the place it’s nonetheless authorized and guarded. “Lisa, I feel you are able to do this,” is Charlotte’s rapid reply, with completely no acknowledgment of the truth that Lisa may very properly select to not. Everyone knows Charlotte is traditionally a Pollyanna, however she’s additionally a loyal pal on a collection supposedly all about feminine friendship, who most likely voted for Hillary and carted her children to the Girls’s March. Would she not even gently remind Lisa that she may choose to finish a being pregnant that’s making her totally depressing?
