It’s a golden age for television about teens and twentysomethings right now, and there is no shortage of shows about the epic highs and lows of high school and early adulthood. Yet none of them have nailed believable dialogue, roommate dynamics and new job struggles the way “Not Suitable For Work” has. The nine-episode Hulu series, which premiered in early June, follows two entry-level investment bankers, an aspiring thespian, a newsroom nepo-baby and a fashion stylist as they navigate entering the New York City workforce.
With creator Mindy Kaling at the helm, surely this comedic and earnest portrayal of young adulthood would catch on the way her similar life-stage projects “Never Have I Ever” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls” did. So why is it already canceled? Maybe it’s an oversaturation of shows like “Adults” and “I Love L.A.” and their general attempts to recreate the magic of a living-in-the-city show.
Maybe people prefer the absurdities of the high-school-girl-in-a-love-triangle trope over something realistic. Whatever it is, we don’t have the answers, and it’s unlikely that we ever will. Which brings us to the cliffhangers and unresolved questions from the first seaon of Kaling’s show.
Here, we broke down the five biggest things we’ll likely never find out now that “Not Suitable for Work” is out of a job. Season 1 ends with an unexpected kiss between AJ (Ella Hunt) and Davis (Will Angus), which was sure to bring about all kinds of awkward and fun situations, not the least of them being that Josh (Jack Martin) stumbles across the pair on his way to declare his own feelings for AJ. Any modern teen show is proof of the importance of a good love triangle, and as the cherry on top, AJ and Josh were already well on their way to the perfect enemies to lovers plotline in Season 2.
But the truth is, no one actually wants to see AJ and Davis together. Yes, they make a great pair at work, but Davis deserves someone who will actually appreciate how clingy he is, and AJ is much too strong-willed to be tied down. Regardless, fans are dying to know who ends up with who (and now, may never know).
And let’s not even start on the tension between Abby (Avantika) and Kel (Nicholas Duvernay), the latter of whom has been harboring a not-so-secret crush on the former since before the events of the pilot. Whether Abby is providing Kel sanctuary from his roommates or Kel is helping Abby carry her piles of designer clothes, the pair is always there for each other, in more ways than one. But even though the two became closer this season, with Abby even showing up at the afterparty for Kel’s show with what seemed like a dramatic love confession brewing, the finale ends without any closure for these two.
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