Obviously "love" is not always romantic love, so I understand that this may NOT have been their intention, but this episode was weird from the get-go.
Maybe I'm being conspiratorial, but this episode creeped me out. First off, this girl LOOKED younger than 18 (which felt intentional to make us feel like we were viewing a little girl who wanted her daddy) and the story was told from her perspective that she wanted to be in a relationship (whatever that meant to her) with this older man. In other words, it felt TO ME like the intent was to "normalize" an underage relationship. I don't care what her "needs" were, the man should have seen that it was not appropriate for them to "snuggle in bed" together as if that was something people do. Not to mention the lying in bed and snuggling with your "father" is quite strange. There were just too many weird underage/incest vibes happening in this episode for me to like it. It just felt like an episode that attempted to normalize behavior that shouldn't be normalized.
Relationships can be complicated at times for anyone, and the show has done a pretty decent job (especially in the first two eps) explaining this.... but THIS - this was a perspective of a relationship that nobody really needs to see as "relatable" enough to put on a TV show. Sorry.
