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Truly a show that deserved better. I guess it did get three seasons, which is better than most get, but I do wish this was not the end.

I don't know if I would say Georgie is acting as a father-figure to Missy. I think she's too old for that, he's too young and realistically, Georgie is not around her enough to take on that role. I agree.

Yeah, it was like someone pitched, "What if it was Christine, but the car was racist and "we'll figure out the rest before dress," but they simply never did. Thank you. I wondered if there were going to be members of the audience who had no real idea who she was, because her heyday was so long ago.

Yeah, I wondered about that as well. I think she was shot in the shoulder or arm, but I guess she fully recovered in what, an hour or so? The episode was fairly meh. Even with killing off Eddie's partner, and shooting the Mayor, the stakes felt very low, and everything was resolved way too easily. On the positive side, I did like seeing the one last family dinner, even if that felt rushed as well.

I'm not sure what to think of an alternate universe holographic Bashir married to an alternate universe surgeon version of Garak. It was very funny, but the logistics seem somewhat complicated, even with a mobile emitter.

I really like Vanessa Bayer, and am still sad that her Showtime sitcom only lasted a season. Having said that, it did feel a little like she played the character like it was one long SNL sketch. The whole "Please no longer call me Dee Dee, call me "Deh Deh"" was pure SNL. Depends on her intent.

Liza Weil got her role as Paris after she auditioned for the part of Rory Gilmore, but lost it to Alexis Bledel. Apparently ASP liked her audition so much, she created the role of Paris for her.

I thought the Please Don't Destroy sketch was really weird, and not a funny weird, but more of a "where are they going with this" weird.

Thankfully you can. Though I do understand that the show amps the dysfunction up to a 10 for the sake of being funny.

I'll admit there was something amusing about the idea that the Captain has to spend her days sitting through endless crew member recitals. But yes, a lot of filler for a series that only has a couple of episodes left.

Eh, Barbara's students are 5 and 6 years old. I'm not shocked they haven't heard them, or perhaps they have heard their music, but did not know the name of the group. It's not a matter of Abbott's student population, so much as the you'd think the teachers would have more sense, and the school district probably has a policy about these types of celebrations. Heck, even if they didn't, I'd imagine Jacob and Janine raising the issue immediately. It really shouldn't have taken Barbara witnessing her Muslim student being teased for that particular light to go off, so to speak.

Yes. Sometimes the jokes just feel mean spirited. I don't expect Ava to do a 180 and suddenly be best friends with Janine or anything, but the show really shouldn't let the character have it both ways. It's four seasons in, and Ava is almost openly hostile to Janine, even when she shows up on Janine's doorstep seeking camaraderie.

True, but she's fairly young, and it seemed like typical mother/daughter disagreements than anything serious. We later saw her at Barbara's Mother's Day lunch and there didn't seem to be an issue.

I think Janine's mom expressed pride in her daughter when we met her, but it didn't mean she was a good parent. Does anyone on this show have a good relationship with their parent or parents? Maybe Barbara?

This really bothered me. Perhaps it's because I don't celebrate Christmas, but you'll have to forgive me for not buying for even half a minute that a public school in a major urban area has only suddenly discovered in the year of our lord, 2024, that having a Christmas show excludes students who don't celebrate Christmas. I also didn't really think that Caleb would just be allowed to stand at the back of the class and observe Jacob as he taught. It's a distraction for the class, and honestly, unless you are supposed to be observing a teacher as part of the oversight process, the whole thing would get boring really quickly. Also, not surprised at all that Jacob applied to Morehouse.