sharpwin ending 😭💔

i literally JUST finished season 4 and can i just say that it has caused me permanent emotional trauma 😭

anyway i’ve been seeing the opinion floating around that the in-universe reason sharpwin didn’t work was because max couldn’t put helen’s needs above his own and i just. like. did we even watch the same show?? bc he’s been there for her literally the entire time they were together and far BEFORE they ever got together. i understand the writers needed an excuse to write the relationship off since freema left to film another show in england but idk that just seems like SUCH lazy writing to frame it that way. max always prioritized helen. i mean the writers never even brought that pov into the show so i don’t understand why people are saying max didn’t care when he clearly did and the writers always tried to make that obvious.

tbh i feel like they could have kept sharpwin even without helen physically present. if bridgerton can make it work i don’t see why new amsterdam couldn’t have, especially when season 5 is only 13 episodes, so it seems like they could have pulled that off 🤷🏽