the episode itself today, without considering the plot, was adorable and everything. i was reeled into all of it for a moment there, just as i was in the past few episodes. simultaneously though, i find myself becoming increasingly conflicted with every episode as to what exactly i’m devoting my time to when i watch this show. at this point, someone from the team needs to come out and outright clarify. have they lost the plot? have they forgotten the original intent of the story? are they under some sort of trp constraint? or have they simply given up on the show? what is the deal here? i caught my very first glimpse of the show when Imlie burned her mangalsutra, and thought to myself that a revolution had finally come to itv and i definitely needed to get on board this. but this is now a full-on story of domesticity (with or without the pregnancy). her aspirations and career have been reduced to no more than a “conflict enhancer” and a mere one-liner intended to land the fl in the ml’s arms and extend their talks on domesticity, when it used to be the whole bottomline of the show. what happened to “Amma ki asha”? what happened to “chandan ka tika”? what happened to ep 322 (where Imlie wrote her first article and explained the rationale for it)? what happened to reaching for that trophy and building an ‘aangan’ for Amma? what happened to all of that? talk to us.