#harlem 2x03

[booasaur]

Spoilers for ep 3&4 of Harlem if you haven’t seen it yet

I was upset at first about Isabella and Quinn breaking up but now after the last episode I can see how it plays into her overall storyline this season which seems to be an arc about Quinn’s mental health and her self worth. The Vogue interview where Quinn can’t name things she’s happy about seems to be the rock that broke the camels back so to speak. Maybe she and Isabella will have another change after Quinn works on her self worth and all that. Also I’m glad that Quinn is still talking about her sexuality often and they’re not just dropping it. That I’m glad about. Also I liked the scene where she comes out to her Mom in ep 3

Same anon, I think?:

Harlem spoilers for eps 3&4

Thinking of Quinn’s breakup with Isabella in ep 2 makes more sense looking at the other eps that have aired now that we know more of Quinn’s storyline for the season seeming to be about her self worth issues and self esteem issues. I think the reason why the breakup was clearly neither of their faults (Isabella wanted casual Quinn didn’t) was to play into Quinn’s self worth. Like all Isabella said was that she wanted a casual relationship and she wanted a night off and Quinn spun it in her head that Isabella was mad at her and didn’t want her at all and Quinn was too much for her cause she didn’t wanna be with her for one night. Cause Quinn has such low self worth that if someone doesn’t wanna be with her all the time forever she spins it in her head cause of how her mother is so easy to point out her flaws. (I like that she called her Mom out for that) either way though I’m glad that they’re forgetting that Quinn is queer and she’s getting to be her very excited queer self. I also like how she told her Mom that she doesn’t know how she identifies yet. Makes sense she is really new to queerness

Again, thank you for the ample spoiler warnings at the top! This week I ended up sort of spoiling myself, since I had a work thing Thursday night and skimmed through the Quinn parts on mute and since ep 4 ended with her crying in a tub, I wasn't in a rush to watch. But I didn't know the details so I'm glad I was able to safely put off your message till I'd finally finished.

No, yeah, from the interviews and trailer, I expected Quinn wouldn't forget about this part of her, tbh, I figured she'd throw herself so completely wholeheartedly into it that we'd get something like this, just later, at ep 7 or 8 Isabela would be like, this is too much too fast or whatever.

I am a bit puzzled at how it keeps on being framed as Isabela being this bad guy who broke Quinn's heart or indeed that it was Quinn's clinginess or being too much that caused the breakup but hopefully you're right, that it's Quinn's own self-esteem issues that projected that hard and it'll be addressed.

And yes, I like that she told her dad (and lol, Rick Fox is just always showing up in these shows!) and her mom and yep, it's expected that she's still figuring things out. I'm also glad she said bi/pan most likely, since people kept on throwing around lesbian and gay, which, colloquially is fine, but I'm sure there were viewers who took it more literally and were like, oh, she's gay now, it's only women ahead and well, that didn't seem to track with her history. At least she was able to clarify for herself.

[jvlewis77]

I'm watching Godfather of Harlem 2x03 "The Fruit Stand Riot"