The original post: /r/television by /u/Summerofthe90s on 2026-02-03 00:29:49+00:00.

How this show has 6 seasons? I don’t know.

So currently I’m on season 4 of 2 Broke Girls and this is my first time watching it.

I wanted to talk about how badly the show fumbled Max as a character.

In the early seasons, Max had real potential. She wasn’t “book smart” in the Caroline Channing sense, but she was clearly intelligent in other ways: street smart, emotionally perceptive, and a full-on hustler. She knew how to survive. She knew how the world worked. She was literally the one teaching Caroline how to function as a normal human being with a job.

That dynamic was the whole point.

But somewhere along the way, the writers decided to completely dumb her down and thats very disappointing.

In season 1, it’s explicitly stated that Max went to college and had student loans for an art degree, there was even an episode where Caroline and Max paid them off.

Fast-forward to seasons 3–4, and suddenly the show acts like she barely made it through high school. Then they turn have her take a history test so she can finally graduate highschool I know this was supposed to give Max depth but instead it flattened her character. The fact that her old principle said she had no drive and no ambition made her seem like a big joke.

That’s not character development. That’s lazy writing.

Instead of letting Max be a different kind of smart, they flattened her into a caricature: uneducated, crude, emotionally stunted, and perpetually stagnant. All her ambition stalls. Her intelligence becomes a punchline.

Meanwhile, Caroline is preserved as “the smart one,” even though Max was originally the one who actually knew how to navigate real life.

And honestly? This feels even worse knowing the role was played by Kat Dennings. Kat Dennings has insane comedic timing, charisma, and the ability to sell emotional beats when the script actually lets her. Instead of giving her layered material, the show leaned harder and harder into shock humor and one-liners, clearly assuming her delivery would carry jokes that didn’t respect the character.

Max could have been a working-class, creative, sarcastic woman who slowly learns to value her own intelligence without turning into Caroline. She could’ve grown. She could’ve evolved.

Instead, the show chose cheap laughs over consistency—and Max paid the price.

Let me know your thoughts?