Girlfriends Season 1 Finale Reaction: Joan's Big Mouth Blows Up Tony and Greg's Romance

We just finished reacting to episodes 19 through 22 of Girlfriends Season 1, the closing stretch of the season, and the verdict from both of us is that the show has only gotten better as it goes. The take: "I think in the beginning it kind of took a minute to get its footing, which is very classic of sitcoms," but once the tone, pace and characters locked in, "it got better and better and better."

A big chunk of our reaction centered on Joan telling Sean about her one kiss with Davis, which spirals into a whole banishment from his restaurant's crab cakes. We went back and forth on whether Sean had a right to ask Joan to stay away from Davis, landing on the idea that his approach came from insecurity and control rather than trust, even if we understood why he was upset that the kiss happened while they were becoming exclusive.

Tony's chlamydia scare and her engagement to Dr. Clay dominate the drama

We spent a lot of time on Tony's messy love triangle between Greg and Dr. Clay, including the chlamydia diagnosis and the moment Clay proposes with a flawless diamond ring even though Tony was still involved with Greg. We debated whether it made sense for Tony to keep wanting to change Greg while ignoring a guy who already had everything she claimed to want, chalking it up to the heart being confusing.

Joan blurting out Tony's engagement to Greg without confirming the facts first is the moment we kept coming back to

The turning point we flagged repeatedly was Joan assuming Greg already knew about Tony's engagement to Clay and casually confirming it, which turns out to be the reason Greg broke up with Tony in the first place. "God, Joan messed up so bad," came the reaction, and we agreed the real lesson is to stop and ask what happened before jumping into a sensitive conversation.

The William and Ivonne ultimatum sparked a real debate between us

We also dug into William asking Ivonne to quit the police force after she gets shot, then later proposing with the same demand attached. We disagreed a bit here: there was sympathy for William's fear given a friend whose cop father was killed, and a counterargument that ultimatums tend to breed resentment no matter how much love is behind them.

The season ends on Tony discovering Joan was behind the breakup and then, in Jamaica, catching William making out with someone else, a cliffhanger so brutal it drew the joke, "This is worse than when Thanos killed the Black Panther." Overall we walked away saying "it's a really great sitcom" and we are genuinely excited to keep going into Season 2.

Do you think Joan should have kept quiet about Tony's engagement, or was she right to assume Greg already knew?