all recent interviews for S7 point to lucy chen getting paid dust for a second season in a row (fourth season if weāre being real) and i donāt know if i have it in me to watch her go through it again.
no promotion, but she will be temporarily training a rookie who will most likely be putting her in situations that might get her in trouble (clown incident anyone?) which will again deter her road to promotion.
melissa says in a recent interview that the stakes for lucy take a bit of a backseat this season, which to me sounds like sheās getting pushed to the sidelines AGAIN. sheāll most likely still be there to support everyone else though AND sheāll probably be helping tim a lot even though he did her so dirty and should be grovelling. we wonāt be seeing her navigate the aftermath of everything she went through last season ON SCREEN because alexi wants to give that precious screen-time to other characters.
alexi wanted to go into S7 with positivity, because you canāt really focus on timmy bās beautiful mental health storyline if lucyās still upset about timmy dumping her for absolutely no reason, right?
weāll spend S7 watching the man that broke her heart go through therapy, have some character development and possibly be happy, but her? we might not even get to see any of her sl play out, weāll probably get a scene of her making that cute exasperated thing she does, if weāre lucky.
so much for not making lucy a doormat to everyone on this show and giving her back her agency, right alexi?