not that i was expecting anything happy-go-lucky, but the story felt half-baked. there's raw dough in this pizza :/
ethan's death was abrupt - liv never learns about his feelings, what the hell was the point of his character. like obv he's the gaston of this beauty & the beast pastiche, but to what end? in the disney movie, gaston serves as the beast's foil - a physically beautiful man but rotten inside. but ethan is not a foil for isaac, he's just kinda there. there's no repercussions for him outing the monster's existence, either. tf?
idk why we spent so much time on that flashback if liv was never gonna understand isaac anyway. esp with that dude crimer, why did we have to hear about him at all? he's totally irrelevant.
we should've gotten another season where liv grows to understand isaac. she doesn't have to like him, but the story feels incomplete as it is. it feels like it's trying to deconstruct beauty & the beast... and failing. i can't tell what the author was trying to say.
the summer hikaru died does this trope a million times better and has actual themes at play about what it means to be a monster and why someone would sympathize with one, themes of identity & belonging & loneliness. but where the summer hikaru died feels poignant, this story is faux-deep and at times almost slapstick.
ethan confronts the monster, whoop, head's flying. lol
liv trips off a cliff and dies. lmao
just bad, honestly. M's relationship with his mom made me sad, but that was the only good part. the main isaac-liv-ethan trio are criminally underdeveloped.