Olivia's neverending deconstruction storyline
As someone from the Bible belt, there is a specific brand of formerly conservative ex-Fundie white women that make "being different" their whole personality. Olivia has been doing this since season 1! It's not taboo anymore, girlie pop. I truly cannot take the secondhand embarrassment. I've been skipping through the Olivia scenes because the way she's trying sooooo hard to seem like this worldy, educated, cosmopolitan liberal just makes me cringe. It's weird because it's so much worse than the plaths. Like obviously the older siblings changed and deconstructed a lot of their toxic beliefs, but they don't seem to still be trying to prove themselves so much. It's really sad actually.
Notes: * I'm aware that this is a major overreaction, but I went to college in the deep south with a number of girls just like this and it is DRAINING to watch someone with a fully developed frontal lobe act the same way I witnessed countless college freshmen behave year after year.
*And that preview from next week...?? The "sex education" night?? Is it not condescending to assume that a bunch of grown ass adults in their mid twenties need a sex education night?? Like I guarantee if those cameras weren't rolling, those wannabe famous LA types would be rolling their eyes at such nonsense.
*Final note: white is important to add because culturally white evangelicalism is VERY different from the Black American Church. (Or at least the ones I infrequently attended growing up).
ETA: I've figured it out! Someone on tiktok said that Emma Chamberlain (influencer who became YouTube famous and rich in high school) would have benefitted from going to college because now she says the most shallow nonsense on her podcast that's basically just the late conversations everyone else has privately in their late teens/early 20s that we think is really deep and introspective. That's Olivia! She should've been sneaking into bars, questioning her religion and having a "hoe phase" at 18 like the rest of the world, but instead she got married and then got a reality show and now we're watching her in her mid twenties thinking she's doing something earth shattering (which I'm sure it is for her) and that's why I'm over it. I don't care that you don't know what dating is and you're wearing a silly wig and you've "only been to a bar once" (sidenote: I call BS on this, there was a whole plot line where she got her bartending license)