that whole halloween costume money saving thing screamed pitty to me and im glad i am not only one noticing her hypocricy
to be honest i never liked Josy. she is just full of red flags for me and every time i learn something new about her or i see her do something different/new i feel more inclined to metaphorically move to other side of street.
As if the support for cheating dad was not bad enough i was willling to focus on the positives of that POV. and trust me it was not easy to find the way to be optimistic about supporting dad divorcing your mom but i did my best. By divorcing josy mom dad made him, his new partner, and seemingly josy happy (comparatively speaking as she would probably be less happy if her parents remained in jaded marriage and constantly fighting), while only person being heartbroken is josy mom
so like ok, lets not judge it too soon. but that all changes when we find out "boyfriend" she talked about is maya and MC gets kicked on the street. Because now the whole dad thing is not "outside of the box" thinking and is just cheating mentality.
OFC josy will support her dad cheating when she herself is more than willing to cheat on maya that she kinda dates. and that completely ruined her character for me. Sure, MC can share some blame for the cheating part but that does not justify her part
cherry on top, if MC does take josy offer and sleep with her, josy has audacity to try and point fingers at him as if he is to blame when MC tries to tell her to fuck off over the texting messages. As if she wasnt just responsible for MC being kicked on the street with no promise of finding place to sleep in.
Then after the three of them have the conversation and MC decides to walk away to let other two have a chance, or maybe MC tries for something more but fails... you'd think josy character cant get any worse but then after the preps party we find out josy wanted to date MC but decided to pick "safe" route. that is really scummy and made me dislike her even more.
And even if MC is dating both of them, she would get jealous of all the opportunities maya and MC get (if you pick maya over josy more frequently).
then during halloween party the whole costume drama only makes things worse. Like, maya already have dad that does not let her live the life she wants so maya have to take wins where she can and then josy comes and says "no, fuck your happiness, think bigger picture. we will never save the money to get you out of this situation if we spend too much on costumes" and okay... lets try to be a bit objective here. There is room for interpretation here to say this is somewhat wholesome. Putting the small pleasures aside thinking on the bigger picture. sacrificing small things today for bigger happiness tomorrow and all that. But it screams hypocricy when you see how much money she then goes to spend later trying to "find herself"...
And as if that is not bad enough, later during bella's party we learn about her insecurities and how she feels suffocated in relationship... so now i cant help but feel the whole petty pity attitude back with the costume feels more like "you need to save money asap so that i can feel better about us", it comes off as selfish.
And lets not forget how annoying she was about halloween costumes only to then go and buy full BDSM setup. (not to mention how much i hate that CHICK mc suddenly is totally into BDSM with 0 hints about it up to that point so josy even manage to ruin MC character not only her own) AND she coerce Maya into BDSM session with MC.
And lets not forget that every scene with josy that does not involve maya is somehow focused on josy trying to find ways to spend time without maya or is all about "ME ME ME" aka herself, so like, why is she even in relationship with maya?
That couple/throuple is so doomed from beginning its not even funny, and i blame josy for most of it. In fact i blame josy extra hard because there is no option at all to pursue maya alone or during the conversation where options are either thouple or nothing there is no options to show how their relationship cant work out and that they should end it and just be friends and support each other (with then options to date one of them in season 2 and onwards)...
there is just so many red flags that when in later episodes game starts hinting that Josy likes MC more than maya it just feels once again that she would rather be with MC than deal with maya drama and try to make that work because that is safer and easier option once she learns about maya's family situation. SO its just repeat of season 2 plot where we find out she picks maya over MC because that was safer and easier choice.
so as i said, i am not saying josy is terrible character, i see positives but literally every scene made me feel like josy is more of a red flag and not my type of girl. i would stay away from josy in real life as far as i could. in my eyes she is typical "selfish" "i want to be popular" "its all about me" "professional victim" type of person