S02.E20: Tornado Season (2)

[helenamonster]

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When a tornado touches down in Bucksnort, everyone's concerns about their current situations are heightened; Mike and Beau are still at odds about their egg businesses; a mix-up with pregnancy tests leads to confusion.

Original airdate: 5/5/20

[zoey1996]

Well, of course it's Rio and Mike!  Just what I didn't want to happen.  Rudy' s realization that he wants Constance to be OK was sweet.  Loved her son on the radio with play-by-play of the storm, and stress eating at the store.  And Mike and Beau making up and being partners was good.

[Roaster]

Yes, I generally don't like it when sitcom characters have babies.  You get some good pregnancy storylines, but babies in the family lessen the scope of what they can do.

Mike and Beau running a co-op?  That could be good for plots next season, if we get a next season.

Beau: "My boy's first pregnancy scare!" - yep.

 

[joanne3482]

I'm okay with it being Mike and Rio, for now. It makes sense for the couple. Their child raising ideas clashing with the ideas of the community ought to be fun. I'm hopeful. (for now) 

[readster]

2 hours ago, joanne3482 said:

I'm okay with it being Mike and Rio, for now. It makes sense for the couple. Their child raising ideas clashing with the ideas of the community ought to be fun. I'm hopeful. (for now) 

Yes, I'm fine with this story because it's natural for the characters and series. I HATE it when they just throw in a new kid because: the other kids are TOO old, character left the series, someone was friends with someone on the series and of course OUT OF IDEAS. It's like on Cheers with Fraiser and Lilith, they kept that pretty consistent even up to when they hired the nanny and one of the writers was a new father himself. So, he reflected it on the characters. Same on Full House when Jesse and Becky had the twins and even wrote it to make sense even to the point of the rest of the cast. 

Unlike say: Black-ish, Boy Meets World, Dharma & Greg, Last Man Standing, The Brady Bunch that threw a kid in there new board or relative just because they ran out of ideas for the rest of the characters. I site Dharma & Greg the most because they had Dharma's parents have a kid instead of them. Something the show originally said: "We thought it be a switch of things and it was just really, really hard to write instead of having the main characters who were married a while to have a kid. We didn't think it through." 

[iMonrey]

I just think baby storylines are the equivalent of creative bankruptcy. It would have been funnier if had been Jacob and Janine (although God forbid either should ever breed). There's just nothing new to be mined from new parent stories. 

You have to wonder how Beau and Kay wound up with such a dumb kid. I mean neither is exactly a Rhodes scholar, but sheesh. Did they drop Jacob on his head when he was a baby or something?

It never fails to amuse me what TV thinks tornadoes are like. They seem to confuse them with hurricanes. For one thing, you don't run for the basement the minute you hear the sirens. It might not be anywhere near you. You flip on the TV to see where it is and if it's heading your way. For another thing, it's not all windy and stormy outside when there's no actual tornado in the vicinity. In fact quite the opposite - it's eerily quiet and still. 

[readster]

18 hours ago, iMonrey said:

You have to wonder how Beau and Kay wound up with such a dumb kid. I mean neither is exactly a Rhodes scholar, but sheesh. Did they drop Jacob on his head when he was a baby or something?

It never fails to amuse me what TV thinks tornadoes are like. They seem to confuse them with hurricanes. For one thing, you don't run for the basement the minute you hear the sirens. It might not be anywhere near you. You flip on the TV to see where it is and if it's heading your way. For another thing, it's not all windy and stormy outside when there's no actual tornado in the vicinity. In fact quite the opposite - it's eerily quiet and still. 

Sadly, people in Hollywood who didn't grow up in those areas. Think that people are just naturally idiots from the country and rural areas. They over exaggerate kids these days intelligence. As a teacher, trust me there are at times you just look at the kids going: "What is wrong with you?" However, no one is acting like "me make a boom boom!" Thinking they know more than adults or feeling they can just "get by in life". Yes, that's very common. 

  As for tornados, yeah no kidding and also at times in small towns, sirens might not go off because tornado touch downs can happen suddenly without ANY warning. If these writers just Google or watch on Youtube "About tornadoes" shows be much more realistic. 

  As for baby stories, I'm fine when they make sense in the characters, if anyone outside of the main two were pregnant, I know the show would have been doomed. Those characters are far removed from having kids at not only that point in their lives, but wouldn't make ANY stories with them. Least with Mike and Rio it makes sense and even with their parents, this will be interesting. 

[iMonrey]

The problem is that this show is already crafted around Mike and Rio being "fish out of water" by trying to be farmers: big New York City folk trying the rural thing. It's kind of a modern Green Acres, in a hokey named town populated by a bunch of absurd characters.

Having a baby and dealing with new baby issues can be done on ANY show. All the tropes of the water breaking and the race to the hospital, learning how to change diapers, not getting any sleep, the sex life being over . . . we've seen it all hundreds of times. It adds nothing to this show and does nothing to further the premise. It's just lazy. 

And unfortunately, that's sort of been the problem with this show overall. It doesn't feel like enough effort goes into making the writing sharper and funnier. It's like they just film the first draft of the script and move on. 

It's too bad, but not altogether surprising. It's another show by Elizabeth Meriwether, who brought us "New Girl." And by the time that show fizzled out I strongly suspected its initial success had more to do with the actors improvising and riffing than it did on the scripts. 

[needschocolate]

I realize this episode was probably filmed months ago, but I found it oddly timely with people dealing with sheltering in place.  I wonder if, nine months from now, there will be a rush of babies named Lysol.

[Lifesabeach]

I have 4 Eps of this on my DVR.  Watch or not?.  I read somewhere that this is  on the edge of being canceled.

thanks 

[iMonrey]

Cancelled.

[needschocolate]

On 5/13/2020 at 7:43 PM, Lifesabeach said:

I have 4 Eps of this on my DVR.  Watch or not?.  I read somewhere that this is  on the edge of being canceled.

thanks 

Even thought it has been cancelled, I say watch.  If you enjoyed the other episodes, you will probably enjoy the last four.  Plus, with the pandemic, it could be a while before new episodes of anything are filmed, so don't pass up the opportunity to watch something you haven't seen before.