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I initially thought that a trip to the cabin would be a recipe for disaster, as the only time that a visit there went somewhat well it still ended up with Corey dying. So I was surprised that it worked out well. And it really worked out well for Coop. If she had just disabled the Wi-Fi to help Spencer/Olivia (I doubt she cares all that much about Jordan/Layla), why didn't anyone else bother to check? I guess that would have taken them away from fighting and complaining. When Olivia said that she was worried she and Spencer would break up again and Coop said it wouldn't happen, I was like, "Really, Coop?" Maybe she just meant it wouldn't happen in this episode. I also liked the blindfold adventures, especially when Olivia tripped and Coop was just like, "Oh yeah, that was a rock." I'm not at all surprised that Miko's lawyers are going for a b.s. self-defense angle, but they're really going to have her testify? Not only would she be perjuring herself, but can she really go that long without going totally psycho? Of course she'll probably be totally normal in court and Patience will lose it about that while Coop tries to calm her or something. I'm glad that Layla had decided she would talk to a doctor about her meds, but even if she does now, she'll probably portray herself as more stable than she is, and then she and Jordan will fight about it. Aside from Coop making one comment in the season premiere about being sad about the cafe being gone, they hadn't given any hints about neighborhood tension about the lounge opening. I thought at first they'd just been robbed until they showed the graffiti. I hope Teresa will go away now. I don't know why her crazed antics are supposed to be funny when they have so much mental illness portrayed otherwise on the show. It's a weird tone. But I guess she and Greg had to be there for an episode to give an excuse to send everyone to the cabin. I'm glad Laura wasn't pressured into dating anyone yet if she doesn't feel ready. Interesting that G.W. and Wendy? (Jaclyn Smith) got along so well when I think he used to dislike Laura because she is white. I guess Laura's dad was a lawyer too, hadn't heard anything else about him. I liked Laura's reactions to some of her mom's comments about dating and relationships. Of course "Sonoma" had to lose their game because it's too early to not have any football (except for maybe the combine) for the rest of the season. I guess it's early enough in the school year for Spencer to try to get enough credits to graduate early, though probably not plausible for it to happen in the spring unless he had some AP credits or whatever the equivalent is in modern times. (I had enough credits to finish a quarter early but didn't realize it.) And I have to give credit to Olivia for being a very fast writer. I think she said something to Ashley about a deadline last week, but I didn't think she'd already be done with the first draft of the book. Not unless it's actually one of those 20-page books with pictures of the athlete like they had in the library when I was in elementary school.

After a spontaneous trip to the cabin leaves the Vortex without internet, they decide to spend their time helping Spencer with his latest case studies on relationships; Jordan makes an unexpected discovery about Layla.

I liked that some of the characters got to have a little bit of fun, though of course it can't last for long. Tyrese was going on with the exposition about his bad life for so long that I thought Dee would disarm him (I know that's likely beyond her training, but he was talking for so long I thought he would forget he had a gun on them or something). Or Mel could have approached from the other direction and knocked him out, but then he wouldn't have gotten to escape to probably inevitably reappear in some future episode. I'm glad Robyn didn't give all that much thought to reuniting with Miles, and I thought Aunt Vi's pep talk about Dante was cute, not that it will lead to anything with the season almost over and him preoccupied by his family drama.

It's not a big deal, but I was surprised they let Will say "shit" during "Rolling in the Deep." Several others have sung it over the years, but they always had to sing something else during that part (although I have the studio version by Haley Reinhart and she was allowed to say it then, just not on the show). Ryan said something about how they were opening the songbook of Adele for the first time. I guess that just meant it was the first time it was the theme, as a lot of people have performed Adele songs on the show.

I think the finale is actually three hours? The onscreen guide lists it airing at both 5 to 8 PM and 8 to 11 PM on our ABC affiliate.

Music Choice played a new Bon Jovi song, "Legendary." In the chorus, they say, "'Sweet Caroline' and we all sing along." They also say something about a "brown-eyed girl" that might have been meant as a reference to that song.

This press release about the season premieres of Homecoming and another show mentions that the season finale of All American will be July 15. http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2024/05/01/the-cw-network-sets-season-premiere-dates-for-all-american-homecoming-and-61st-street-66314/20240501cw01/

The season premiere will be Monday, July 8 at 9 PM. Also, it appears that Thea is still a regular (this wasn't clear before), as she is mentioned in the press release. (Nate, Cam and Keisha get a throwaway line at the end, so they may not be given much in terms of storyline.)

I was listening to the Fifth Dimension's greatest hits album, and in their song "Save the Country," I thought they were saying "Sleep until the dream wakes up! Sleep until the dream wakes up!" Fortunately they repeated this enough times that I finally realized it was "We can build a dream with love." In the next song, "Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes," I was hearing, "Weed leads the lines of love in circles and angles. Weed runs deep like a tunnel with a pendulum beat." It turns out it was "need" at the beginning of those lines, though I still think weed had something to do with the writing of the song. I had this album on while I was exercising, and I kept losing count because I was baffled during this song trying to figure out what they were talking about.

I really do not like the new Carl's Jr. commercial where the guy is so desperate for a burger that he crashes his car into a full Carl's Jr. and grabs one. The previous ad where a fighter pilot ejects from his plane, crashes through the roof of a Carl's Jr. and steals someone's burger was dumb, but didn't bother me as much because it's more cartoonish/implausible. People do crash their cars into businesses (including coincidentally the veterinary clinic next to the closest Carl's Jr. to me--at least no one was hurt), so I don't think this ad is funny. The ads where the cartoon star kept yelling "YEAH!" were better than this. I don't know how every series of ads they settle on ends up worse than the last, but somehow they pull it off.

Olivia not saying anything about Ashley being a guy in over a YEAR is one of the stupidest things she has done. I suppose it could have worse if she had told Layla or Jordan or someone and then expected them to keep it a secret from Spencer too. She and Ashley have likely never had any romantic interest in each other, so this is going to probably turn out to be due to some subconscious thing relating to more deep issues between Olivia and Spencer. Then it will either drag on until the end of the season before they break up, or they break up quickly and fret about it the rest of the season (even though this has already been done). I hope the couple that moved in won't be around as supposed comic relief. Maybe they can have them just be gone all the time as a running joke, like Jordan and Spencer aren't sure where they are but don't care as long as they pay the rent. They don't need to ever show them again when actual cast members are gone half the time. (Patience wants to avoid Coop, so she just vanishes to...somewhere.) Laura puts together a class assignment based on Patience's situation just to gauge people's reactions to Patience? I know she wants Coop to act professional, but if she thought that she didn't about Preach's custody case, good luck with this one. She may want to test Coop's growth, but the woman she loves was nearly killed and the culprit will probably get away with it. The lawyers will probably claim that Patience invited Miko over and then attacked her. And people will believe this because they are stupid. (That could have been determined without the case study.) I love how the show isn't allowed to mention any real colleges (aside from UCLA when Chip Kelly guest-starred because of being real Spencer's coach) in even a neutral reference. Like they can't say that GAU needs Alabama or Washington to lose, it's "Sonoma." Even if they mean Sonoma State, where my cousin went, that school doesn't even have a football team. And I'm not sure what season it is, because one loss doesn't eliminate anyone in the expanded playoffs. Even with just four teams, my alma mater kept getting chances until the second loss every year, even after opening the season losing by like a thousand to Georgia. Of course it will come down to GAU against Coastal and Wade for the shot at the playoffs. I liked how Dillon (who they confirmed was in high school) was helpful, but I'm not sure how he could put together an apparently good lasagna within the time frame. It's not like Grace had already put it all together and he just heated it up. It seemed like it all magically appeared within an hour or so. I like that Preach is dedicated to repaying Billy's faith in him. Poor Deion having to deal with his sister wanting a handout. I'm surprised she doesn't expect an NIL deal right now, when he's a freshman, though I don't know if California allows this for high school kids.

After having some issues with a new game strategy on the field, Spencer diverts his attention to helping a South Crenshaw High player, who has been struggling with his own issues; Layla helps Jordan find a new roommate at the beach house.

Dice also treated Billie's friends like crap for no reason (other than maybe they were smart enough to point out to her how terrible he was). I liked when she shows up at their apartment with her cat and the friend is like, "About time!" I haven't seen the movie for a long time, but I seem to recall that Billie is moved to sleep with Dice because he plays a xylophone? I remember trying to explain that to someone but really I couldn't at all.

I was confused that Mia sang "No One Needs to Know," because the song is from 1996 (I remember it from the Twister soundtrack), and Mia was born in 2004. In the past I remember times when someone would sing a song that seemed older because there had been a cover version in the contestant's birth year, but I couldn't find one for this song. I know that Lionel wants to be encouraging, but his reasoning that people won't notice forgotten words or other mistakes because the audience wasn't at rehearsal isn't necessarily true. I was glad that Just Sam got to perform on the stage and experience the confetti falling. The others in her season at least were home with family while she was alone in a hotel room because she didn't want to put her grandma at risk. I'm guessing her appearance was because the publicity of her being back to singing in the subway wasn't a great thing for the show with the "We create superstars and change everyone's lives!" rhetoric they like to present.

Another Deadline article suggested that the two episodes were added to "wrap up" Spencer's storyline, and that the show would likely be renewed but start over with a new cast to keep things cheaper. https://deadline.com/2024/04/cw-canceled-renewed-all-american-homecoming-walker-status-1235889923/ I don't agree with the line in the article that talks about new cast "breathing life into an older show." If they have decided to wrap up the story (which may be a good idea), then the show should end. If they want to launch a new show (maybe around Deion who was introduced this season?), then include All American in the title, but give it a slightly different name. I don't know if they intend to have any returnees in this scenario, but it still wouldn't be the same show, regardless of what the CW thinks.