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We’ll that last screen was a shocker 🙄

She uses “ok” as a empty word. She’s making a sound to pretend to be listening. ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…ok…

Not it.

Will you re-send me that diet you never sent me?

We have a new worst “patient.”

I hope he gains self-respect and it makes him realize he’s too good for her and he leaves her ass.

Just had to log in to say I don’t like Amber. And HAHA on her weight gain. Not nice of me. I know how hard it is but she’s so freaking self-righteous and bitchy.

I may be giving the show too much credit but I believe the accent shifts with Allison's character are deliberate on the show's part. They seem to be consistent shifts.

Dele as bad influence could be hilarious.

Glad I'm not the only one who's gotten sucked in! I have a few thoughts, observations, questions, some simple, some complicated: She's so desperately unhappy and keeps clinging to the idea that if she can just do this one thing, it will fix it. But that one thing is beyond her reach. In that, her happy place fantasies aren't unlike her attempts to have "one pretty thing" - the red lipstick, the table from Pottery Barn - but reality (and Kevin) always intrude. Originally her "happy place" not only included Kevin, but she was still serving him in it. She's still his subordinate and bringing him his beer, just in a much nicer kitchen. Her happy place/fantasy is a typical delusion in lot of ways, the kind of lies we all tell ourselves: if I could just do X, then I will be happy. Will she be happy if she kills him (and gets away with it)? Or will she just be unhappy in other ways? Speaking of which, is she isolated from her friends because she has walled herself away, as her ex-boyfriend suggests, or has Kevin isolated her? How much of her situation is her own doing (she let Kevin take care of the bank account because she's "bad with money") or Kevin's (is she "bad with money" the same way she's a "bad driver" -- because Kevin told her she was)? Is his cruelty deeper than just immaturity and selfishness? Is he a lovable/annoying dope or something more sinister? Even the "war" with the neighbors could be very sinister played out in the gritty/realistic world instead of the sitcom one. What would gritty reality Kevin look like if we could see him? She has hit several men, 2 "by accident" (realtor, mechanic/coke guy/ insurance dude/john). Is that a symbol of her internal rage or just being a clutz? I'm also interested in when/where her accent disappears. It's in all the sitcoms scenes and in some of the gritty scenes, but not all of them. We've had her aunt comment on the time she decided as a teen to get rid of her accent, so it's definitely a deliberate choice. I think I noticed it gone when she talked to the waitress in her fantasies and she she talks to her exbf, but not positive... I'm not sure why I find it so fascinating, but I do. I hope it goes somewhere interesting.

Until I came to read this thread, I fully thought part 2 of the episode was next week. I had no idea last night was the finale. In a weird way, I'm glad it's continued until next season because I was getting seriously worried they might be planning to keep Dele in Nigeria. Chuck Lorre has been known to ship children off when they're not working in a series (Mom), but Dele is one of my favorite characters in this show and the actor who plays him is just adorable. I'm glad for the cliffhanger if only because it ensures we get Dele back next season.

Olu and Laptop are sisters. I like how they've maintained the zoom framing issues with Laptop while still finding a way to expand her character profile a bit. Initially she was 100% overbearing Mom but I think the cake scene went a little way toward showing (a) she can be insightful and (b) she seems to be pretty accepting of Bob, all things considered. Speaking of overbearing, I may be alone here, but I don't think they're portraying Tayo as 100% bad guy. I think he's been fairly consistently portrayed as an arrogant man who firmly buys the "Man is the king of his castle" crap and believes his choices are the best for everyone, whatever they *think* they want. That said, I don't think he's deliberately trying to hurt Dele or punish Abishola;. I think Abishola's marriage to Bob made him feel that he needed to (re)gain control over his "family," and if he can't control Abishola, he'll make sure he doesn't let some American man raise/ruin his son. I think he believes Dele will be better off with him for the same reason told Dele to stop dancing - a "father knows best and Dele will thank me one day" kind of thing rather than a "I'm going to be an asshole because I want to make my son unhappy" kind of thing. I'm not defending any of that or saying it makes him a good guy. I just think the writers have done a decent job of not turning Tayo into a mustache-twirling villain, which isn't easy considering the storyline.

He wanted Tunde to feel useful, so he gave him something to fix and people to mentor.

So I read an article last week that I can't find now. It was a localish interviiew with Billy Gardell. In it he mentioned the season finale and said Any thoughts as to what that could be? edited- found the article! It's https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-swissvale-native-billy-gardell-grateful-for-bob-hearts-abishola-success/ So the exact quote is:

Maybe we'll get 5 more minutes of exposition to tie things up (in lieu of actually showing us anything).