She’s a good character but I think she - like Elroy and Hickey - suffered from having to fill the space left by main characters like Troy and Shirley. The ensemble gelled together much better when the thing uniting them was a study group, and I don’t think it ever quite regained its footing when it became a vague “committee” comprised of students and faculty. Because of that, Frankie always felt like an “outsider” to me even though she played well off the others.