""I'm obsessed with how much I hate her," Joanne tells Noah. Joanne doesn't love that Abby is always talking about hanging out with her beautiful kids and husband - "So she loves her family?" Noah clarifies - but she really hates Abby for cutting the hair on her Felicity American Girl Doll at a middle-school sleepover. Still, despite her bias, Joanne wants to go with Noah to the brit bat - a naming celebration - to support him and judge Abby's life off on the sidelines."
"We're used to seeing Meester play iconic mean girl Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, but Abby is a different creature entirely. She's simpering and polite and bubbly - but is that effervescence masking a deep cruelty? Modern insincerity? Or is Abby just kind of annoying? Meester holds her cards close to her chest, leaving us to wonder whether Joanne is being spiteful and shallow (given her trajectory ... probably) or whether this woman is really that unbearable."
Season two, episode five of Nobody Wants This reunites Kristen Bell and Leighton Meester, with Meester playing influencer Abby Kaplan, known online as 'Abby Loves Smoothies.' Joanne resents Abby for a childhood doll incident and criticizes Abby's family-centric posts, yet still wants to attend Noah's brit bat to judge Abby from the sidelines. Abby's bubbly demeanor raises questions about whether her effervescence conceals cruelty, modern insincerity, or mere annoyance. Joanne and her sister Morgan navigate the world with vengeful, self-conscious internalized misogyny, acting as mean women who often disdain other women, including each other.
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