Oh, hmm, well, it’s hard to say how much I liked it as a whole, a lot of it is colored by how much I liked certain parts. I don’t think it fully succeeded, tbh, in what it was attempting, as I mentioned in the previous ask, it was blending different genres and to me, it didn’t fulfill its potential in either. For one thing, Lex, the daughter, her arc seemed so out of place on this show, where the rest of the drama and stakes and characters were on such a different level, and then this teen romance.. And the various adult romances popping up, like, maybe it’s hypocritical to say that when Lu and Mei are my favorite part, but they’re defined by their literal restraint and not following through, it’s not just about the romance but culture and willpower and they only got the one ep, instead of all these random friends and coworkers with their season-long inappropriate arcs.
Yeah, when you start off, Misha and Lu really don’t come across well, which is unfair because Lu especially is correct, Emma was impetuous and didn’t listen and caused the fire, but Emma is also our sympathetic lead so the audience naturally sides with her. As I did too. But I very much started to warm to Lu, partly because of her romantic arc, which is entirely intentional, even the general audience should like her by the end of ep 3, but she also warms to Emma a lot. Also, she’s just funny and badass and so smart and good at what she does. It’s hard to not like her even if she weren’t a wlw.