My Only Sunshine Episode 3

Romanticizing SA

The second half was genuinely hard to watch. Flint’s behavior did not read as confident, sexy, or intense to me. It read as controlling. “I don’t like people messing with what’s mine” is not a hot dom line. You do not own another person.No one is saying women cannot be abusive or that stories cannot portray that. The problem is the framing. This is a romance, and romance has built-in emotional language that pushes the audience to root for the couple and read tension as chemistry. So when you put coercive behavior inside the central love story without clear condemnation, consequences, or lasting fallout, it stops being realism or awareness and starts being romanticized by the narrative itself.Sun saying no all episode also did not feel like organic character writing. It felt like the script was creating resistance specifically so Flint could push past it. At that point, it stopped feeling like two women falling in love.At this point, I think the series may be doomed for me, but I am still watching to see how they try to frame or mitigate this. Right now, though, this does not feel like romance. It feels like the show does not know the difference between intensity and violation.

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