#Poon is also an actor I've had my eye on HARD

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I have feelings about today's episode!!! And I never write meta so y'all...

I enjoyed Pah's choice of behavior.

I enjoyed it because it feels real. This is what happens when you have people between 19 and 22 working in their first professional environment, especially if they've never been tasked or asked to be this professional before. Professionally, they are newborns. They don't know how to do this. Decisions and conflict resolution concerning personal matters in a professional space are So. Freakin'. Hard.

Even when you have years under your belt (Looking at you P'Jane with your possible ex showing up)

The newbies don't know how to do it yet. Of course, they look like a freshly lit dumpster fire. Look at who we have in the game: -(very) emotionally underdeveloped people, -Sympathetic people -Loyal People -Rejection/ Disharmony Sensitive people -Highly Observant, etc.

All of these people are in a semi-friendly or established friend group. And they work together?!

It's messy. It can't be anything other than, and to expect that is to subvert all the understanding we've been led to so far in this show. This show has layered comedy on top of very real, uncomfortable tidbits of work life. This basket of humans contains my FAVORITE HR violations of the season (and we're in an era of Long Beans, and SunsetxVibes!!)

I personally hope the messiness is not fixed immediately. In real life, it lingers. If Pah is down for his homie, and in his corner, that's his right. He expressed it unprofessionally of course but it's his first time dealing with this type of emotional strife in a work setting. It takes time to rebuild bridges, especially if he's blasted it apart to the degree we're being led to think he has. If he's on team F the Ex, then we might see either an ice-out or immediate groveling, I have no clue yet. But I'll be watching.

All of this to say today's episode makes these young NEW professionals seem extra human and makes me pay attention to them. I'm invested in these connecting Venn-diagram-like circles of relationships.