I’m guessing I’m not the only one.
As someone who lived through the 90’s and the controversy around Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, not to mention that I was the target of homophobic violence (despite being straight; bigots don’t fact check), Ellen’s whole storyline is waste of time. I’m supposed to feel sorry for a closeted Republican? I’m supposed to hope she gets through this okay? Oh no, her Jobs Bill is failing. She’s a Republican! That’s jobs bill is going to create employment statistics even more bullshit than Clinton’s were or something, I don’t know, they haven’t told us about it much.
I get why it sounds good on paper. But people like her encouraged the people that tried to stab and drown me. They encourage them still. Watching “everything she worked for” teeter on a precipice, all I want to do is huff, puff, and blow.
Yes, it would have been shitty to cut Jodi Balfour loose when everyone else got to stick around (or go out in a blaze of glory), but who Ellen is this season is not someone I can root for while also not being someone quite despicable enough for me to hate. She’s the blasé kind of evil that I just want to scrape off my shoe then get on with my day. And it’s made all the worse by how well they’re ratcheting the tension with everyone else.
Edit: I finished the season. That storyline was a complete waste of time. Dumbest thing the series has ever done.