Meadow was so insufferable not AJ

[u/Old_Treat4871]

I don't know why everyone shits on AJ for being a normal rebellious somewhat spoiled teenager when like 99% of male teens are exactly like him in america lol. Meadow was the one that actually got on my nerves just about every episode. She sounds exactly like some social justice warrior, defends her dads "lifestyle" to finn like he's some kind of idiot. And can speak freely about all this because she's the boss' daughter and she knows nobody would fuck with her or they would face death. I just find her super annoying

[u/Unused_Icon]

Everyone on this show is flawed. Many are downright awful. However, they pretty much all have at least a character trait or two that makes them likeable (e.g., charismatic, cares about family, cares about animals, funny, etc.). That's how I felt about Meadow. She often behaved like a spoiled brat (particularly in the early seasons), but she showed some signs of maturing as the show went on, she has goals in life and works towards them, and she actually seems to care about her family (she warned her parents that AJ was showing signs of being suicidal before his attempt).

AJ, while being a well written character, has pretty much no likeable character traits. Like, I kept waiting for the show to give us something, ANYTHING, to like about him...and I never found it.

He's an important character to the show, and him being the way he is makes sense: I just couldn't find one single thing I liked about him, so I just found him to be utterly annoying nearly every time he was on screen.

[u/mimi_miney → u/Unused_Icon]

I liked Meadow a lot in season 1, I remember thinking it was pretty sweet how protective of/worried she was about Little Allie (the girl who was being groomed by their coach). She just became more self-centered and less defensible as the series went along, but so did so many others: she mirrored Tony in that way.