"Younger" This Week

"Younger" continues to tread water until the inevitable Liza/Charles reunion. But, this past week, it did its treading gracefully.

The script--written by a charming, older gay man--has Liza in a tangle with Quinn. Quinn, a Vassar alum, could maybe be tapped to win a "Vassar Spirit" award; the prize had been intended for Jane Fonda, but "last night, she was arrested again."

I welcome any chance for Quinn to shine. She embraces Liza and says, "Oof! Your breath tells me you've paid a visit to a food truck! Iron stomach!" And later: "Onions....They keep a food truck in business...."

Quinn decides she will accept the Vassar prize, but not before showing off obnoxiously at a "foreign rights meeting." She brusquely issues commands in several languages--German, Italian, Japanese--then shrugs. "All those boys owe me some favors...."

Of course my favorite moment is when Quinn levels with Liza. "I'm not the monster you think I am," she says. "You're Maria von Trapp. I'm the baroness. I get it." But, then: the best line of the season so far. "People forget that the baroness really loved the captain....."

I have very little interest in most of the "Younger" storylines, and I know Quinn is on her way out, but I'm curious just how hard the writers will try to make Quinn seem sympathetic. Is there really time? If she does become something like "a person," how will this impact Liza's image, when Liza (inevitably) steals back Charles?

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