Moreover, the main storyline involves a woman reconnecting with and once again being pressured into physical intimacy by her first boyfriend, who sexually assaulted her in junior high.

It’s never outright stated that he assaulted her, but it’s hard for me to read that scene any other way. And it clearly leaves her traumatized well into adulthood, with the effects echoing out across all parts of her life. Pretty tragic.

All of this is romanticized, but in such a way that even if this weren’t a story about a rapist, I would hate it. There is zero chemistry between the leads, even though they spend a lot of time in physical/sexual contact and talking about sex. The FL is not so much a character as a cardboard box with eyes drawn on it. The ML is at least supposed to be stoic in character, but the ML’s actor took this as a free pass to not bother emoting at all and just looks like a personified brick wall in most scenes.

I also hated the second leads. Everyone in that house was a trainwreck. “Screw-Up Adults Sharehouse” indeed.