Good Trouble
A few years ago, ABC Family (now Freeform) released a show called The Fosters that followed a family with one biological child, 2 adopted children, and 2 new foster children. I started the show when it first released but didn’t finally finish it until this past year in quarantine. Part of the reason I was prompted to finish it was because I heard that there was a spin-off called Good Trouble that followed the two daughters as they start their adult lives in LA.
So I binged watched the Fosters and the first two seasons of Good Trouble and just two weeks ago the 3rd season premiered. The show follows Callie, the main character in The Fosters as she works towards passing the bar and becoming a lawyer and her sister Marianne, who is working as a software engineer at a tech startup, and their new friends in their communal living apartment. Being a minority woman software engineer myself, my favorite storylines are about Marianne’s job and how she has to deal with Silicon Valley lookalikes who are douchebags and treat her like crap because she’s a woman. She spends the first two seasons fighting for the woman at her company and it showcases a lot of the issues women in tech face, especially women of color which isn’t often showcased in the media.
Her sister Callie starts working for a conservative judge as a liberal and has to fight between what she believes is right and what is good for her job. There’s also a lot of interesting character to follow such as one of Callie’s love interests Gael, an artist who works with Marianne as a graphic designer, Davia a woman who is a plus-size Instagram influence and teacher through Teach for America, Alice the manager of the communal living space who is trying to be a comedian, Dennis the mysterious older man who lives in the communal living space who suffers from depression and grief from losing his young son and Malika a woman who spends her time fighting with the Black Lives Matter community on many social issues.
One of the things I loved about the Fosters that this show continues is how open it is about relationships, mainly in LGBTQ+ communities and how it touches on different social issues. This show and its predecessor are definitely the types of shows that some may critic for “exposing too much,” it is actually pretty eye-opening. Even though I consider myself on the more progressive side, I still had my eyes opened to many issues that I may not think about or have biases towards.
While the show's artistic style with how some of the scenes are filmed isn’t my favorite, I still enjoy this show, and the two seasons that are on Hulu are pretty short, so it’s definitely not something that will take forever to get through. I can’t wait to see what season 3 has in store.