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Everyone is so good and then Harrison Ford comes in and just absolutely steals the episode with his scene.

 

He’s one of the best so it shouldn’t have come as surprise but yeah that still knocked me right out

 

I haven’t seen the finale yet but overall this season was pretty disjointed and felt aimless, while still enjoyable, whereas the first had a much clearer direction and purpose. I like this show but it’s become sort of just a hang-out sesh with its characters. Which doesn’t really make good storytelling. But it’s fine because it’s like a warm hug. I just wonder how much longer they can keep that up before it gets old.

 

I feel like there hasn't been a single episode this season that hasn't made me tear up a bit haha

 

Had more than a few good cries during this one

 

good end

 

Personally enjoyed this season way more than the first.

 

Good finale! Pretty much exactly what I predicted would happen but it’s still fun hanging with the characters and Harrison Ford’s just always so great.

 

Just got around to watching the finale and fuck man I didn’t think Harrison ford would have me on the verge of sobbing on Christmas.

And I love Segel but I’ve never really thought “man he’s a great actor” but I thought he did a really nice job during the talk with Alice scene too.

D carving the turkey was lowkey my favorite moment from the season lol

I just love this show a lot.

 

So glad this didn’t end on an extremely depressing cliffhanger, thank god

 

Holy fuck, this episode was something truly special. So many emotional moments throughout. Harrison Ford’s scene was absolutely incredible—he better win something for that performance! And that ending with Jimmy and Louis? Just phenomenal. Definitely one of the best things I’ve watched this year, much like the first season the years previous.

 

Thinking this definitely affected my enjoyment of the season. But in the sense that they held back too much on confronting Louis’ character or the accident. They sidelined his character (and the accident itself) to have little purpose this season. He disappears for several episodes at a time and reappears too infrequently for us to really explore that remorse, so it’s a very shallow portrait IMO. It’s also just weird bc Jimmy seems mostly fine the whole season until the penultimate episodes when he regresses, so it’s almost like the show doesn’t know what it’s about anymore besides its main cast’s daily lives.

 

Was Louis even drunk? I mean, more than likely over the legal limit with a drink or two, but from what I saw he seemed like he wasn’t drunk, which could apply to his guilt. Regardless, I love the fact they’re showing the grief from both sides and they’re handling it beautifully. Very excited for season 3.

 

Right thats interesting. It showed him having what? 2 drinks at dinner? Not saying he was drunk or not or that he should have driven, but so many people in real life get behind the wheel after being in that exact situation without thinking anything of it.

 

That isn’t what I was saying and I’m not going to debate how many drinks are appropriate before getting behind the wheel.

It’s the fact Louis has maybe 5% of screen time this season despite the fact they’ve engineered the entire premise around his actions. We barely see his character and in essence just becomes “the sad guy that killed Tia.” You’d think after introducing him and centering him so close to Jimmy/Alice’s issues that the show would at least engage with him as a full character.

 

i believe that brett is one of the head writers of the show so i’d imagine there is a reason he wrote his character to appear so infrequently

 

Yeah okay but the reason is lost on me lol

 

yea this is the one part of it that feels like a questionable choice to me. The flashback scene makes it seem like he wasn’t drunk or barely was. I don’t have a problem at all with exploring his remorse and journey, it’s interesting and at least somewhat novel for this kind of show. But it almost cheapens it that they’ve given the viewer an out to say “well he was just unlucky.” Like almost a hedging their bets choice in case it’s too offputting if he was completely hammered.

 

Oh I really liked the choice to show that he wasn’t extremely inebriated when it happened. Making him just some plastered dude speeding down the street with his eyes barely open would’ve been too easy - it’s exactly what everyone immediately assumes about the person with a DUI anyway. This way subverts the expectations a little bit by making his story more interesting while still not changing the fact that he killed a person

 

Yeah Louis’ story was so interesting

 

yeah you’re right shows should only be about good people who always do the right thing that’s why the sopranos is so bad and uninteresting

 

Never drank, never killed anyone, never said bad words. Great show

 

The Sopranos: the story of a boy who loves his mother

 

Idk how this is the takeaway you get from “Louis’ storyline is shallow and his character is an obvious plot device”

 

Personally, I’m getting by on this show on the basis that it’s pretty funny and the cast is charming. As for writing, it’s one of those shows that resolved almost every plotline within 1-2 episodes, and the characters frequently act like aliens in my opinion.