At the end of the episode, she’s at the neighborhood bar celebrating getting her big dream job with her best gals - not one of them is like really, your dream job is to work at a stodgy old publishing company with your ex-boyfriend and not do something innovative and inspiring with Kelsey, this was your endgame the whole time?, which is a shame - and leaves the booth to get a round of drinks. Sorry invisible editor, didn’t you know that all you have to do is have very minimal experience in the publishing industry, commit identity fraud, sleep with the boss, and you, too, can become editor in chief of a 100-year-old publishing company? It’s that easy!īut that’s not the end to Liza’s story, friends. Make it make sense! Somewhere you know there is another editor who has been toiling away at Empirical for 15 years waiting for their shot screaming into a pillow. So … he doesn’t trust her enough to be in a relationship with her but he does trust her enough to run his family’s company even though she is highly unqualified. And maybe longer if his career takes off. So fine that Charles tells Liza he’s going away to Yaddo and he wants her to run the company while he’s gone. The next day at work, things are surprisingly fine between them. They’re not and they know it and they hold each other. And then that night in bed, Charles makes another comment about Liza keeping secrets from him - she secretly submitted his Henry Cane manuscript to the prestigious Yaddo writers community and he got in, but he wonders if she would’ve even mentioned it had he been rejected - and it’s inevitable: “We’re not gonna make it, are we?” Liza tearfully whispers to Charles in the dark. (She wanted Kelsey to wait to tell him until after the big Empirical party so as not to ruin the mood or steal anyone’s thunder.) And when he tells her he’s been testing her, he does it in a smug way that seems to indicate that he thinks this is totally fine. This could work.īut then at the big party celebrating Empirical’s 100th anniversary, Liza learns that Charles has been testing her - thanks to Quinn he knows that Kelsey has been sending Inkubator around and neither she nor Liza have informed him yet, but he’s been waiting to see how long, if ever, it would take Liza to come clean. (Maggie could not care less and it is perfect - everyone is over it!) When Kelsey tells Liza about secretly sending Inkubator out to VCs and deciding to leave Empirical and Liza tells her that she’s back with Charles and loves him and the company and could never leave, she seems genuinely fulfilled by this life choice. Liza seems truly excited to tell Maggie that she and Charles are back on. Yet still, these two sexy giraffes go through the motions for two-thirds of the episode: They’re happy in bed together and promise no more lies from here on out.
Liza and Charles are not long for this world (we’ll always have that cupcake scene from season four, I guess). And by turning Charles into The Worst this season, that writing was highlighted and in bold.
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(Although imagine how much more fun this season would’ve been with a newlywed Diana! What could’ve been!) The season has been both infuriating and pointless at times, with characters either lacking any kind of development or simply making decisions that feel so antithetical to who we’ve been led to believe they are, and much of that is on full display in this series finale.īy giving Liza and Charles their big romantic reunion with one episode still to go, the writing was on the wall, really. I’d like to blame it all on the lack of Diana Trout - the Trout will be Younger’s greatest legacy, right? - but the problems are much bigger than anything our One True Statement Necklace Queen could fix. What hell hath season seven of Younger wrought, you ask? I don’t even know where to begin with how disappointing this season and this finale episode have been.
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