‘Younger’ Season 6 Episode 12 Recap: Diana Trout’s Wedding

What a long, stupid, infuriating trip it has been! But we’re here: the Younger season 6 finale.

We did it. Together. We made it all the way through season 6 to the finale: ‘Forever’ — which is approximately how long Liza and Charles’ relationship has been going on. This episode gives us the perfect wedding, an array of gorgeous outfits, and no solid resolutions.

Liza meets with Kelsey, and we kick off with last weeks big drama – Kelsey wrote Charles a letter to say it’s time for her to leave Millennial and move on to something new. Liza, understandably, is distraught and dramatically runs into the office to intercept the letter. In typical Liza fashion she is unable to craft a believable lie, and the truth is out there.

Charles suggests she takes two weeks leave to let the dust settle, but Kelsey is not having a bar of it. So long, thanks for all the books about influencers and emojis, here’s an uncomfortably sad hug.

Everybody is sad. They all need to get over it because it’s about to be DIANA’S BIG DAY.

Kelsey meets with Zane and asks for some advice — she wants to start her own publishing company. Zane, being the massive dick that he is, says she’s not capable without the funding source that Mercury had. He is also bitter about their breakup, and Kelsey’s focus on her career. He no longer wants to help Kelsey with anything more than business advice. Good, begone.

Liza, Diana and Enzo go to visit Enzo’s uncle, who is… an ice sculptor. What a handy part of the family! Imagine having this bloke on hand for weddings, parties, funerals.

Unfortunately, the gorgeous artwork he has crafted for the wedding is a toilet with a fish coming out of it. See, Enzo is the toilet and Diana is the beautiful trout. I cannot fault his creative vision.

Kelsey heads to the loft to visit Maggie, whose role in the show now seems to be Advice Oracle, always in the loft awaiting a stranger in need. She tells Kelsey to find a funding source and to ‘be a player,’ whatever that means.

Kelsey does indeed decide to be a player and presents her pitch for KLP Print… to Quinn. She hates the name (she is right to) but loves the bold idea, and it looks like this terrible woman is back on the scene.

Diana and Liza take a meeting because another white guy has had an idea. The book is about JOMO, the opposite of FOMO. It means the “Joy of Missing Out”. You don’t need to name this; you can just stay home, it is okay.

Kelsey’s presence is sorely missed, presumably because she would say this book sounds like garbage and send it directly to the nearest bin.

Liza and Charles run into Quinn at lunch, who happens to drop the info that she’s teaming up with Kelsey. Nobody is happy, and again I must remind them it is Diana’s time to shine and they are being SO rude.

Maggie and Lauren head to Uncle Ice Man’s Ice Lair to deal with the toilet situation. Maggie suggests taking this masterpiece to a gallery. Lauren, meanwhile, decides to sit on the toilet and post a selfie with the caption ‘pussy on ice, until women get the respect we deserve.’

I wish millennials were even half as cool as Younger thinks we are.

Anyways, dio mio, she gets herself stuck, and I can’t imagine anything more horrifying. Please do not put your pussy on ice.

Kelsey and Liza have a brief chat about Josh and how totally over it and completely fine she is. Liza is embracing JOMO. Ah, the joy that comes with missing out on a gorgeous and adoring man.

Meanwhile, Josh is discussing tattoo designs with Infinitely 21. Horny Blonde Lady loves the hourglass that Josh once tattooed on Liza, but he says it doesn’t belong to him anymore. He wants to keep the unique artistic integrity of a white woman with an hourglass tattoo.

Finally, it’s Diana’s time to sparkle.

Everyone arrives at the wedding of the year looking opulent, and Charles tells Kelsey he will match whatever Quinn is offering and give her the recognition she deserves, and a stake in the company. He tells her to think about it.

More importantly: Diana is here, and she looks BEAUTIFUL. Liza and Diana have a precious moment in the limo before the wedding, and I’m very emotional. God bless this Queen and her unwavering commitment to statement neckwear.

IT’S THE PERFECT COUPLE. IT’S THE PERFECT WEDDING.

I love everything about this and will consider this Darren Star’s penance for putting us all through the Sex and the City films.

While this beautiful and pure coupling becomes legally binding, we take a brief detour into Liza’s mess of a life as Josh arrives at the wedding. Deciding to not speak to your ex when you share all your friends, who could have known this would not work?

We can’t end the season without a dramatic cliffhanger and, unfortunately, it’s not a hot Josh encounter in the wedding bathrooms.

Charles asks Liza to dance and requests their song, Take My Breath Away (how incredibly predictable.) The giddy wedding romance is flying about, and Charles is not immune. He tells Liza he doesn’t want to live without her and drops a casual PROPOSAL.

Without a ring, I might add. It’s a no from me.

It’s also not exactly a yes from Liza, who is so caught up in the wedding dancing and fun she apparently cannot yell ‘yes’ over the music or give a casual nod. That’s right, we get to wait for another season of Liza back on her bullshit, and I absolutely CANNOT WAIT.

This Week’s Fashion Champion:

What a glorious episode for Younger’s costume department. Lauren’s retro wedding look, Maggie in a white jumpsuit, Lauren again in pink frills sitting on an ice toilet. Amazingly, Diana managed to give a better look than her wedding dress with this unbelievably hot purple suit. I would die for you.

Team Whom?

The final is a win for the only team that matters, and that is Team Diana Trout. Enzo’s wife, my sun and stars.

Younger season 6 is streaming on Stan.

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