Dev desperately wants to believe in “Happily Ever After”, which is surprising considering he works on a Bachelor style reality TV show. And the fact that his six year relationship collapsed. But when he meets this season’s bachelor and realizes how much help Charlie is going to need just to survive the filming, things begin to shift.
Like Dev, I’m a fan of the Happily Ever After thing too. I haven’t seen any of the Bachelor shows so I’m sure there were things I didn’t get, but I still loved this story. It was tough to watch Dev and Charlie struggle with each other as they were both working through some mental health challenges and past trauma. I appreciated the normalization and eventual acceptance of mental health conditions and therapy. And I freaking loved getting to see them falling for each other as they went on ‘pretend dates’. It was sweet. And I loved getting to see Daphne coming into her own.
I’m glad to see more open and honest discussion of mental health in these stories, but sometimes I do worry that it takes over the story and I start to feel stressed out reading them. I’m still coming down on the view that we need more representation and I think they help reduce the stigma of mental health illness. So props to telling the story well and showing that there can be happy endings for people who struggle with their mental health. <3