YMMV / Everything's Gonna Be Okay

• Adorkable:
  • Matilda is extremely awkward but very cute.
  • Despite his lack of social skills (or possibly because of it), there are a lot of fans who seem to find Jeremy cute.
• Base-Breaking Character: Tellulah. Half the fandom loves her for being a chaotic Attention Whore and feel that her antics add to the series' humor. The other half loathes her for the exact same reason and find that her antics often detract from each episode's overall plot, and worse, that Genevieve's continued friendship with her undermines Genevieve's role as the protective little sister, because Tellulah is willing to go after Matilda if it amuses her, and Genevieve never calls her out on it.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Suze (Drea's mom) has a flaring temper and fits of compulsive baking, which may be a symptom of bipolar disorder. If so, it would be a case of Actor-Shared Background; Maria Bamford is bipolar in real life.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Barb has attracted a lot of fans for her deadpan line delivery.
  • Jeremy has more than a few fans who appreciate him for being a Dogged Nice Guy who also turns out to be a Graceful Loser.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Throughout season 1, many fans speculated that Nicholas might be autistic, too. In 2021, actor Josh Thomas announced that he had self-diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum... and, consequently, an episode in season 2 sees Nicholas exploring the possibility that he is on the spectrum.
  • In "Carolina Sphinx Moth", Matilda dismisses self-diagnosis as the refuge of people seeking to avoid accountability for their behavior. This episode happened to air shortly after Elon Musk publicly declared that he had Asperger's syndrome, which was greeted with derision among detractors who accused him of using his condition as a way of deflecting criticism about his abusive behavior.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Nicholas is self-centered and insensitive, and his treatment of Alex is often neglectful and sometimes even crosses the line into outright abuse. That said, his childhood was pretty miserable, with a distant, aloof dad who neglected him in favor of his younger half-sisters, and a narcissistic mother who emotionally abused him to stave off her own depression, and then he discovered that he was gay. And then he discovered that he's also autistic.
  • In season 2, Matilda becomes increasingly aggressive and impulsive, dragging her siblings into an ill-conceived plot to marry Drea and move out of the house, creating a huge amount of work and stress for Nicholas and Genevieve, who have their own problems to deal with. On the other hand, when the season opens, she's only recently crawled out of a deep depression and is desperate to avoid falling back in that hole, and she fears that her siblings secretly resent her and that they are conspiring against her (which is partially true; Nicholas and Genevieve are conspiring, but only to try and stop her from getting married.)
• Tainted by the Preview: Among latecomers to the fandom, one of the most commonly-cited reasons for why they didn't immediately jump on the show was the original trailer, which featured an out-of-context scene where Matilda talks about how she's attracted to black boys in a blunt manner, which made viewers think that the show was going to use Matilda's autism as a pretense to have her say offensive things for cheap edgy humor. In the actual scene, Matilda is over-explaining things because she's talking to a boy she has a crush on and is nervous.
• Uncertain Audience: The show had some Mood Whiplash issues that made it very hard to promote properly, which may have contributed to its cancellation after two seasons. One notorious episode split its time between a plot about Nicholas trying desperately to act like an adult so that he won't embarrass Alex in front of his friends and another plot about Matilda going to a party, getting drunk, and losing her virginity under questionably-consensual circumstances.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: There is some confusion among fans over whether Tellulah is supposed to be a cis girl or a trans girl, particularly in the wake of "Maggots", in which she and Genevieve go looking for a picture of a vagina that could plausibly pass for her own so that she can send it to her crush in exchange for a picture of his penis.
• Watched It for the Representation: Many autistic viewers streamed as it is the first show where an autistic actor plays an autistic lead character.

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