TV Review: Strangers Episode 6 Will Make You Ship Milo And Zoe!

Here is why I admire Strangers Season 2, and Mia Lidofsky’s creation. It has taken its lead star, and made her, in essence, your favorite secondary character. Let’s be frank! When we watch movies or shows, we mostly gravitate towards the secondary characters that guide or accompany protagonists. Maybe, it is a testament to how we all feel like side projects rather than main events, which best captivates what Isobel (Zoe Chao) feels like. She is journeying into others lives, and fascinating those who watch.

This season I really like Isobel, and it explains, in some ways, her role to others in season 1. While you may think Isobel is “lost”; her journey this season explains two things. The first is that, in Season 1, despite all her issues, she felt like the most stable one to others. She had a place, work, and a plan. While all combust and change, the point is, she had stability in her instability, and that made people turn to her. Now in New York, she has toter to herself, of which Isobel’s adventures bring up my second point: the people you are opportunities to grow. Now Isobel is the “unstable” one looking to others to find how she looks to herself. 

Zoe Chao, as Isobel, is so casually charming. I think people look down on youth, and their natural anxieties over how to define their future. Yet, when you are in your twenties/ early thirties every decision feels like a plant: you have to dig in, put some seeds, watch it grow, and hope you planted the fruit you wanted. Yet, Zoe Chao gives a performance that shows you are still wonderful even if you do not always know how. Still, in episode 6, you start to feel like she needs to realize it. 

Minor Spoilers Ahead.

With Mari going off with her husband Mateo to Italy, Zoe is challenged by friends, her visiting family, and herself to define the relationship. As you watch her struggle to defend her liking of Mari, despite having no concrete idea what they mean to each other, you start to realize why relationship ambiguity is a hiccup to your growth. She is super talented and thoughtful with her words, as you will see by the end of the episode, but, somehow, Mari even challenges that.

While I have no doubt Mari and Zoe like each other, it is clear that Mari does not like Zoe enough to let go of what she has to build something new. Kathleen Munroe is sophisticatedly attractive, and serves elegance with her charisma. Yet, there is nothing charming about putting someone’s heart in limbo until you realize where you want to go. Still, Zoe allows it, despite having Milo (Kyle Allen) giving her so many “I LIKE YOU!” signals. 

If a man is cooking for you something beyond hot-pockets in a microwave….. HE LIKES YOU! If a man is talking about the definition of love under dim lighting with wine…… HE LIKES YOU! If a man starts to become your consistent in life; being there to advise and console you through your self-made confusions……… HE LIKES YOU! You know a show is good when you start to become emotionally invested in how characters are investing in themselves. As the season progresses, I know more people are going to be shipping Zoe with Allen’s sweet, constant Milo. Yet, as I said, Strangers is a show about people discovering themselves, and if you are with someone that refuses to own and display your love with them then you have to ask if you are denying love for yourself. Strangers Is A Series On Facebook That Premieres A New Episode Every Sunday GO WATCH!