txhorns79

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.

I enjoyed that most as well. I just love how it got really weird, really quickly. The candy bar stuff was just dumb, along with the nurse's trite observation that the doctors can put aside their stupidity and work together to save a life. I was glad he got told off by the patient. He was on my last nerve by the end of the episode.

Not sure how I feel about this, but it says something that 17 years after it went off the air, and 8 years after the Netflix revival, Gilmore Girls still is big enough to have the cast appear as their characters in a commercial for a major retailer. They also did an ambient room for Luke's.

Carlos is a terrible investigator who had no business being on this case. (And Rafael Silva is not a good enough actor to pull off this hackneyed storyline. He has one face, and he looks like a complete psycho when the emotion he is supposed to be showing is "anger.") He already nearly murdered the wrong person in an earlier episode this season, and here, he confronted his armed boss, got shot for his efforts and is lucky as hell the person he wrongly accused saved him. And so is Campbell not going to be charged for robbing and assaulting that couple? Is he just getting that as a freebee? I'm so confused about this storyline. Is Enzo surrendering his parental rights? TK just insisting that he can adopt and raise Jonah makes no sense. What TK might be able to do is assume guardianship for Jonah while his father is in prison, but the show acts like TK and Carlos are going to be fathers, when the reality is TK is Jonah's older half-brother and Carlos is also there. I just rolled my eyes at Owen being offered Chief of the FDNY, particularly because in the moments before the offer, he showed why he is a terrible pick with his general insolence and really, arrogant attitude. And that doesn't even get into his total lack of experience.

This show frustrates me. I want it be better, but it really seems to struggle to get beyond average.

I will say that kind of weather is supposed to be unusual for Seattle, and I remember them saying when they had the big heat wave a couple of seasons ago that many private homes simply don't have air conditioning because the weather is normally much more mild. I think of it a little like when Houston occasionally gets a freeze or even snow. It can shut the city down, simply because they don't have the equipment to deal with that kind of weather, whereas in cities like Chicago or Boston, that kind of weather would be treated as a big nothing.

His reasoning doesn't really matter. His actions were reckless and put civilians and himself at grave risk for harm.

Brought up on charges for what? He was being held at gunpoint. Everything he said and did was done under duress. The only thing I didn't like about the episode was when Carisi did the "hero" thing at the end by trying to take on the perps himself during the moment he and Benson were supposed to swap out. It's so reckless and he's lucky he didn't get himself or anyone else killed.