I genuinely have no issue with toxic characters, whether they are female or male... (I think the males of BTG are equally toxic if not even more than the women actually - I mean talk about cheating left and right, the entire show STARTED with the whole MEN ARE TOXIC as hell angle - two sisters dealing with betrayal). I don't find the women more toxic than the men, but that can be subjective, so I don't disagree with people who think that way.
My concern with Joey is that I don't perceive him as a full-fledged character - he comes off as a caricature (and how many times I have said this) - one-dimensional, dull and stale... I can't even call him as toxic, because I don't truly believe he exists in any fictional or real life situation. The only place I can see him function is a crime-themed sitcom, which BTG is not. At least I hope they aren't. Vanessa is even worse. She is a stereotype of a stereotype of a stereotype. You can quote me on that. And the writers don't seem to care about it. They don't see how much it cheapens the entire show to have this tired circus mob clown act as a background to an overall... classy show about human beings AND NOT clowns and caricatures.
Of course Joey and Vanessa are just symptoms of a bigger problem. The writing needs to have an entire overhaul and they need to re-think a lot of things. And I'm confident they can do it, since they have been green-lit for YEARS more. So I expect to see improvements in the future.
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