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    S04.E09: Shadowing Glenn

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    Synopsis. Glenn (Mark McKinney) drives Amy (America Ferrera) crazy with a new, over the top training system. Cheyenne (Nichole Bloom) and Mateo (Nico Santos) brainstorm a new business, while Dina (Lauren Ash) recruits Jonah (Ben Feldman) to help her when she starts second-guessing her own future.
     

    Well if they are going to make us wait nearly 3 months for the next episode, this was a strong ensemble episode to leave us on.

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    S04.E08: Manager's Conference

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    4 hours ago, EarlGreyTea said:

    Amy and Jonah take Glenn's tickets to a managers' conference in Chicago.

    Mateo's undocumented status is revealed.

    This will be the last new episode until 2019 (I think).

    There's one next week. Then 7 March! Sob.

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    S04.E06: Maternity Leave

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    3 hours ago, chaifan said:

    Not to get into an employment law primer, but for FMLA you need to have worked a) at least 12 months, and b) at least 1,250 hours in the last 12 months for the employer.  A break in service makes no difference.  So even with the suspension, assuming (I think fairly) that she was a full time employee for the other 8 months, she would have qualified.  Now, that is unpaid leave.  I don't know if they mentioned if her 6 week leave was supposed to be paid or unpaid.  But no, under the FMLA, what they did to her was not legal. 

    But this is a sitcom, so I don't really care about all that.

    Exactly. Same with Dina: surrogates have to have given birth before, for all sorts of logical reasons.  Nit-picking is not the point. The tightrope of shining a light on terrible core truths while keeping the laughter coming over 22 minutes - honestly I can't think of any comedy past or present that does it better.

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    S04.E06: Maternity Leave

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    People so often compare Superstore to The Office but I think the closest parallel is Frasier in the way it balances so perfectly the funniest comedy with razor-sharp relatable insights into humanity and society. Superstore swaps farce for absurdity, but the skill has become equal. 

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    S04.E06: Maternity Leave

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    3 hours ago, MadyGirl1987 said:

    Good episode! Loved the various applicants and Jonah and Garrett’s reactions to them!

    While Amy’s rant was funny I did feel bad for Glenn. He did try to help her, and hey, a relaxing bath could help at the end of the day and relieve stress? I thought that’s where he was going with the gift. Also; He gave her a puppy! A lot of work especially with a new baby, but it’s a puppy! It would work on me, but I’m a sucker for a cute furry face... 

    He forced her to come to work 3 hours after she left hospital when at the absolute minimum he should have given a sick day, and the sky is  the limit for the maximum. Then left her on her feet all day, then got sulky because it was all about making him feel better about himself. He's been shown up as a total monster.

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    S04.E05: Delivery Day

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    · Edited by Circelily

    13 minutes ago, fishcakes said:

    Yeah, I don't see how they're going to this sell this storyline when what happened with Cheyenne led to Glenn getting fired and everyone but Dina going on a walkout led by Amy and Jonah. That was an arc that spanned seasons 1 and 2, so it's going to be pretty difficult for them to explain why Amy doesn't know the policy now.

    I can come up with a couple of ideas straight away: 1. Amy had some of maternity leave for Emma working in the same company, so shocked to find work benefits worse than 15 years ago 2. Amy is a supervisor not associate and might have had better benefits. But the real villain here is a country less civilized than 185 U.N. countries out all 193  by not making it the law. Perhaps next time lead with that.

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    S04.E05: Delivery Day

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    2 hours ago, possibilities said:

    I don't get why Amy won't tell Adam about her relationship with Jonah. I honestly am starting to dislike Amy. Sending Jonah away like that was really cold. She asked him to stay during the birth, he stayed, and then she kicked him out.

    Before Adam arrived, Amy did tell Jonah everything she felt and all her reasons in a few small words in the middle of a contraction: it wasn't just sex, she had feelings and stuff but it wasn't fair to put pressure on him with the baby and everything. And Adam is the father, so that same sense of fairness to him and her baby is to let them bond without her dumb ex somehow doing a Bo and thinking having sex with Jonah while pregnant  could somehow make him not the dad.

    She didn't send Jonah away, but couldn't ask him to stay. But she loved that he was there for her  throughout, and how different that was from her ex. They have a journey ahead of them, and as a viewer I've become invested in that.

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    Superstore Speculation: Spoilers Included

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    7 minutes ago, silverspoons said:

    The only way I see possible is an old grandfathered plan and his parents own a business. My husband owns his business and we bought our healthcare before the changes and I know several other business owners in the same position. the rates are sky high...

    Health insurance seems super complicated. Thank you for these insights, they help a lot.

    Small Talk: Big Store Stop

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    I'm finding it bizarre that a minority of Bo-like fans are so upset that Amy's baby does not have Jonah's DNA, but very reassuring that Jonah is positioned by the show to be the real dad by his proximity to Amy during her pregnancy and birth (future but certain), which has been scientifically proven to trigger all the bonding and parental hormones that make a man into a father. Doubly reinforced by the oxytocin and dopamine rush of being in love as well. In a real world of blended families, this feels satisfying and emotionally true. But I'm a little disturbed that I am obsessed enough with Superstore to have given this so much thought.

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    S04.E03: Toxic Workplace

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    I found the same things hilarious but also loved the things you didn't. Dina red-lining and Cheyenne as both Fran and the unappreciated logistics genius were fab but "fancy boy" Jonah and Amy's non verbal communication in the warehouse was a giggle with an edge and I like Sandra's plotlines being surreal. Also I loved Kelly calling out Glenn's grotesque entitlement and the flipside of the Superstore cliquey family (even though I love them, they're the worst). She had a strong exit.

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    Superstore In the Media

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    I've read the episode titles and synopses and it seems that they are doing all the kooky tradition episodes before Halloween -the crazy Mateo creativity, the games in the store, the A&J competitive episode. Which makes me think we have a dark twist/ major switch up coming from November sweeps. Maybe HQ give Jonah a new job... 

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    S04.E01: Back to School

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    My hope that they would be together was fed by the the fact that Jonah was saying nothing during the interrogation teasers, just backing up everything Amy said with gestures.This is motormouth Jonah we're talking about here :-D *happy dance*

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    Superstore Speculation: Spoilers Included

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    Roaster I like your hopes, particularly like the Garrett storyline. On your predictions, it's interesting that we both think Jonah will have opportunity to move, in different ways. 

    But I think the bang room broadcast is going to have callbacks, and one will be that Adam will use it as an Out from fatherhood.

    What would you like for Sandra?

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    S03.E21: Aftermath

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    · Edited by Circelily

    On 27/04/2018 at 5:49 PM, tennisgurl said:

    Why are they stretching this out forever? Why are they adding in this pregnancy stuff just to put off Jonah/Amy from becoming a thing? Its so pointless, and its not interesting anymore, its just frustrating. I like Amy/Jonah, and they've done a good job of setting up their friendship and attraction, but this is making me way less interested. And that break up Jonah gave Kelly was brutal. 

    Jonah was harsh with Amy at the end, but he wasn't really wrong. Amy loves to be the martyr, and even when people want to help her, she wont take it because she wants to be the long suffering hero. 

    The inappropriate puppet cleaning and the #1 mom underwear are why I love the background stuff in this show so much.  

    I genuinely love the fact that all of the characters have flaws, and being well-rounded is clearly more important to the writers than perfect likeability. Jonah has consistently been portrayed as  guy who will hurt others if it means he gets to avoid giving bad news, and he totally mistreated Kelly because of it. He is also caring and well-meaning and would jump through fire for Amy. Amy has always been one of the popular people and is scared of that changing but dismissive of those who aren't, like Sandra.  She is also assertive, self-sacrificing and in knots about the failure of her marriage and ambition and so understandably self-sabotages early sprouts of romance with Jonah because of guilt. Which makes the eventual unbottling so intense. All the secondary (and an impressive proportion of fringe) characters also have multiple dimensions and the writers keep the heart without much sentimentality by the superb mix of of verbal and visual comedy. But what bonds me most to this show is the layered characters and the grounding in social reality. I look forward to seeing where they take us for another 3 years.

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