Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento

And it felt like the silliest parts of the movie were inflated over the parts of the movie that actually struck a chord for me, like on an emotional level.

Look at all the cameos.

I wish so badly that this movie didn't have a romantic subplot for Andy, because I think a big lesson from the first one is sort of like, she's not focusing enough on the relationship.

She's more focused on her job.

That becomes a source of tension.

And I think as time has passed, there's all this discourse about like,

Her boyfriend Nate in the first movie was the actual villain, like let her have ambition.

This is a movie about a woman who just has a really deep drive for meaningful work and for wanting to hustle.

The romantic subplot to me felt both underdeveloped and rushed.

There was also an interesting tension there that I wish they would have explored a little bit more.

Like one of my favorite lines of this whole movie comes in a conversation between the two of them.

When Andy's just kind of expressing her frustration by capitalism and like conglomerates buying everything up and spitting it back out and sort of like touching the third rail a little bit, talking about how much our lives and the things that we love have changed as fewer and fewer companies buy up all of these different physical properties and cultural properties and make everything worse and make everything worse.

However, it's like that tension between them just kind of fizzled out.

And I just wish that if we were going to get that, I wish we had dug deeper into that aspect of the relationship.

Ronald, how did you feel about romance subplot guy?

I agree.

I agree.

To me, it still feels powerful, especially, I mean, our colleagues at It's Been a Minute just did a great episode about this fantasy of, you know, women being maintained right now and what that says about women's financial freedom and women's role in the workplace in 2026.

And I think there's something bold and really incredible about having a major movie with major stars that's like focused on different tensions women have in the workplace.

But it just, I just wish it would have gone a little bit further.