Progressive or Regressive tbh I don't hold much in that point maybe for my thinking process I would support girls too who would not want to work and have a loving family as a choice. At the end it's about choice for me pregnancy isn't much favorable maybe because for her age.
Also the show doesn't relate to real life, they may put emotional and path breaking hard life for Imlie but real life problems are never shown.
One gets a mother's name when the kid doesn't have a dad... India do have single kids named from her mother example Masaba Gupta. Also village or city doesn't matter you need to get a kid a surname to let her study in school and Imlie was a merit student. But they have shown this girl without surname.
You can't get a seat in an education institution in some random time. Imlie didn't study for a year, I am dropper myself for one year after highschool and I needed to give valid reason with an application for dropping a whole year.
3rd why isn't she out of college yet for less attendance?
4th unplanned pregnancy is shown as happiness in every single show. The focus maybe on the side of a relationship but we sustain in a society where rationality and practicality is there. For us if accepting being a mother at 20 can be a reality then why did not show blood bank raid or destroying others cars as a crime?
Tbh I doubt the writers has researched before writing...just like when a man writes a woman's story sometimes it seems superficial similarly it goes the same way when a rich kid write the story of a poor protagonist. You need lot of research to be practically correct.
Basically we are simple minded people who wants to associate with only the good side, half from reality was ignored by CVs, we are ignoring half only trying to focus which seems perfect to our eyes.
No fl of ITV would think baby as a burden.. it's a fact as motherhood is celebrated in India.
At the end of the day it's the writer who need to work hard right now every thing is going in the stereotypical way. Show a fl frustrated hearing she is pregnant, also geography plays a huge rule too.
This thing shown might be absolutely okay with North India as they cater the audience there. In our place these kind of things aren't there, like there's no dowry, women driving cars, scooties even bikes are common, not wearing saree at all is okay, and I grew up with my own mom addicted to jeans and skirts. So it's hard for people like us to connect also northeast boys are taught to help their mothers and wives. Also most families plan and have babies, it's the husband wife decisions. No one question a couple even if they are childless for years.
Maybe that's why I didn't feel it as progressive coz it's daily life and quite common here. At older times some were orthodox but that was for acceptance of other community people now a days it's not even a big problem.
So I guess we will keep on looking just the positive side to convince ourselves to watch for Arylie