[6.9/10 on a post-classic Simpsons scale] There’s a lot of stuff I like here. Olivia Coleman is incandescent as always, and I didn’t know she had such a great singing voice! The songs are charming. The gentle fun poked at Martha’s Vineyard is amusing and an excuse for The Simpsons to show off a bit on the design and animation front. And I especially like that the emotional center of the episode is Homer being despondent over having to be away from his family, and Marge in particular, for so long.
But there’s also plenty of stuff here that really didn’t resonate with me. We’ve done so many “Homer and/or Marge have interest in a third party” stories that they don’t really have much impact anymore. (Though at least this one is a few notches above the execrable Marge/Ned episode.) Nothing’s going to top “The Last Temptation of Homer” (aka the one with Mindy Simmons) anyway, and Homer kissing another woman and having a wandering eye doesn’t sit right with me, even if the show rightly puts the emphasis on him missing his family.
It’s also just not a very funny episode. The narration and songs by Willie are all pretty laughless. The gags about London and traveling to Springfield are all pretty toothless. Even the constant gags about how enchanted every man except Homer is by Lily get pretty tired pretty quickly. It feels like a weird grown-up version of Mary Poppins, but most of the humor doesn't really work there. And the less said about Mr. Burns’s abortive attempts to woo Lily, the better.
I don’t know quite how to balance that all out. This is definitely a mixed bag of an episode, which gets some major things right, but also messes some major things up as well.
Pretty cool but not Mages singing wtf moment xD
Shout by Bajo Sánchez SosaBlockedParent2020-12-08T03:54:46Z
it didn't make sense at all!