lemme preface this with i've been a fan of this series since the youtube days with "diary of an awkward black girl." i loved seeing this woman's work (no maxwell) go from a web series she developed to hbo, & her taking her friends & people she worked on the series with, that's one of the dopest things. but watching tonight's episode with only 1 left i'm starting to realize something, & perhaps i'm just looking tooooo deeply into it but here goes.
perhaps the show is less about her relationships with others, & more about her relationship with herself & we’ve all negated paying attention to her growth & transition into who she is. maybe it’s not about how issa looks through the lens of the male gaze of her suitors, & their patriarchal, egotistical willingness to fight each other. but about who she became, the path & people who helped her get to where she is now, & how she’s no longer “insecure” so in the end it doesn't matter if she's left with just herself, simply because that's who it's been about all along.