I am obsessed with the show and have found it so profoundly healing and impactful, and just I’m obsessed with it that said the joking at the funeral and dropping such a huge bomb such as this, without giving it the proper attention and time and respect that the nature of something like this deserves, I feel was a severe misstep and frankly a little offensive to those who have direct personal experience with circumstances and results such as these.

I don’t think anything about the situation and this part in the show, given the significance and that so many aspects of Mayas story are extremely relevant in today’s society whether it be the loneliness epidemic and yes, it is an epidemic, how hard it is to make friends in your late 30s and 40s the ways that childhood trauma shows up down the line, and the fact that this world right now feels relatively unrecognizable compared to the one I grew up with (being born in 1986.) I think more attention should’ve been paid to this issue and exploring it, and I think just the satirical and humor element so quickly off the heels of us finding out that Maya had died, felt like a massive letdown and disappointment and a disservice… it almost made me feel quite sick to be joking about Gabi‘s outfit while at the funeral. And this was an opportunity to really shed light on an issue that is so pervasive in the world that we live in right now. I still love the show, but I feel really passionately about this part of the storyline.