I finished The Family Next Door. Very enjoyable slow-paced mystery/drama series, I'd definitely recommend it (it can be found online if you are outside of Australia).

I've started watching The Girlfriend this week and kind of regret it so far. It's slop, and it's very obviously trying to appeal to horny, brainrotted millienials and Gen Z viewers with terrible attention spans. There is a lot of sex/nudity and it does that incredibly annoying thing of starting each episode with the cliffhanger, then rewinding, because it thinks its viewers are too impatient to make it through the rest of the episode without knowing what's coming. After the first episode it even did a "this season on The Girlfriend" trailer, which basically showed all the major plot points of the show as some kind of engagement bait tactic. I also think it's targeted a lot more towards women than men. I feel like this sort of horny, eat-the-rich, women gossiping and fucking over each other sub-genre is very popular with young women right now.

However, the acting is pretty good and I know Olivia Cooke has big potential to go absolutely psycho at some point, which is probably what's keeping me around. If anyone has seen The Road Trip, Laurie Davidson is basically playing an identical character here which makes him incredibly annoying. Being this annoying is a talent though, so respect to him!