What is the proper way to say, “I’m sorry for humiliating you in front of your entire industry?” Well, first Pauline starts with donating a nice bottle of booze to Inkubator and then she starts in on Liza’s love life. Pauline, with a very wholesome new boyfriend, by the way, is seeking out Liza because she wants to make amends. On one hand, yeah, of course Liza hates Pauline’s guts, but on the other … who cares? So Liza, who is still processing that lingering almost-kiss with Charles from dinner the other night, bumps into Pauline at Inkubator. Last we saw Charles’s ex-wife, she was outing Liza at the Debut-tante event, which at the time felt very dramatic, but there haven’t been any real long-lasting consequences from Liza’s identity fraud. Let’s talk about how we get there, because it involves a surprise visit from a ghost of Younger’s past: Oh, friends, Pauline Turner-Brooks is back. Charles admits that now he realizes he wants to be with Liza any way she wants because he loves her, but does it even matter when no one really bought the new relationship he was in? (He even says that he doesn’t actually like Quinn!) What were the stakes here? And what of Liza, who began the season by getting hurt by the man she loved, never moving on, and simply pining away for him until he changed his mind? Did she have any kind of development this season? We do have one more episode to go before Younger rides off into the sunset, so perhaps Liza will get one last earned win that feels satisfying, but for now, this Liza-Charles shipper will fully admit she’s conflicted as to how the whole thing should end.Īll that being said, even though the buildup has been a mess, the actual moment when Liza and Charles finally come together again is admittedly a little swoon-y. For one, what was the point of breaking them up in the first place, if they were going to get back together without much gained? Neither of them seemed to change or grow because of the breakup.

Things have been so uneven on this final season of Younger that we’re now getting what we want (or perhaps for some viewers, wanted) - a Liza and Charles reunion - but it doesn’t feel in any way satisfying.

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