[7.2/10] Not a bad episode, but pretty mild as season finales go. The idea of Dennis vs. Dee & Frank in a battle to manipulate Charlie, Mac, and a couple of other idiots is a premise rife with comic possibility, but the execution was just so-so. As I said in the last episode, I’m a little tired of diabolical Mac, and of him inevitably getting frustrated when others try to execute his plans poorly. I’m also tired of all the on-the-nose gay jokes about Mac.
That said, there was some good stuff. Dee and Frank have a good and underutilized dynamic, so I enjoyed the two of them working at cross purposes. I appreciated the continuity and humor of both Charlie and Jo-Jo (Dax Shepard) asking where to put their feet with the “guilt-reader.” I got a kick out of Frank’s fascination with using the cult to make someone eat a shit sandwich, though I’m also mildly tired of him as a lech. And Dennis concocting the original scheme just to get Mac to stop eating his thin mints was a good detail as well.
Overall, this feels like a replacement-level IASIP, which means it’s perfectly enjoyable, and has the sort of beats we’ve come to expect from the show, but doesn't really have anything especially memorable or enough to set it apart.
Great references from The Master, one of my favorite movies. The Soundtrack reference is Great.
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