Ingredients the series quick pitch!
Foundational Romance Tropes? Friends to lovers + forced proximity
The slowest burning prettiest little emotional support supermarket advertisement ever to drop into our feeds. Or even, frankly, to exist at all.
We did not deserve Ingredients, but we got it anyway, and it was CHARMING. It came from the retail side and it conquered our mushy pre-packaged hearts.
Did anything actually happen in Ingredients?
Nope.
Do we care?
Nope.
Record Holder!
Ingredients also wins my best trope execution award for "Let Me Sing You My Feelings" for Ep 16.
The number of emotions that cross Win’s face in the course of two songs while he watches Tops flirt with someone else is insane. Win keeps singing yet you see him go through an entire identity crisis - realization of love, jealousy, fear, adoration, loss, and more. It’s brilliant. And Jeff’s voice is crazy good. Even if you aren’t a fan of this series, you owe it to yourself to watch this episode.