Not only is it useful, it is even well tight to the plot. VLR is fascinating.

I was going to say Abbey Road…

I'm not chasting a TV show for portraying housewives housewives, there are a lot that do so and I don't mind a lot. What bothers me is a show that portrays all its women as housewives (I had forgotten about the "run for city council" Clar plot) and calls itself (and it's called in the article) modern and progressive…

Of course not. But if you portray all the women in your show that way… well, it is not especially progressive.

"…it's a mainstream
sitcom that casually features two men who love each other and are
attempting to raise a child together. "