Hard for the shtick to land in this long-form format. Some funny moments, but just ok overall.
Feels like: "Thesaurus: The fact explaining show".
Not sure how much longer than a couple of jokes they can keep this thing going.
The short format was definitely part of the original quirkiness. This just kinda drags on.
Can't believe this episode ended with them hugging and absolutely nothing else happened after that.
In all seriousness, I thought we as a society were over killing sapphic characters for shock value, but I guess not. What a disappointing conclusion to a horrible season. Phoebe Waller-Bridge created such a fantastic show and Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer consistently knocked their performances out of the park, and for what? Season 2 was already a letdown, but after that the show just became a parody of itself and it was clear the new showrunners had no idea what to do with these characters. The last 3 minutes of this ep were pure clownery. How groundbreaking to kill off one of the leads and leave the other in anguish. I hope Laura Neal doesn't cut herself on all that edge.
I guess at least Sandra got a Golden Globe, Jodie got an Emmy, and they got to dive tongue first into each other's mouths. Good for them. I hope their next projects treat them better.
this was very anti-climactic in my opinion, carolyn was never trust-worthy since the 1st season. This was a terrible ending to the poorest season of the show. Should've gotten Phoebe back into the writing room. The ending was predictable since konstantin got killed last episode. Show had so much potential sad to see it end like this.
Is it me or is the show turning into a reality TV? What's with the excessive use of body cam scenes? It's not cool.
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Honestly the cafeteria scene kinda ruined the show for me. It was admittingly pretty emotional seeing the group come together like this but it also looked pretty silly and made no sense at that moment IMO.
I'm honestly disappointed. I really enjoyed the beginning of the show and I think it had great potential. But this ending is just so ridiculous I actually started laughing,
I honestly feel a little duped. All that build up reduced to a flash mob.
Why is Fox still releasing new episodes? I wonder if they're even trying anymore. This episode started a few stories and didn't finished a single one. There were good ideas but neither of them went anywhere.
The city destroyed was a good beginning, perhaps could even have set a theme for the season, but it was easily forgotten after the Burns part came in and we never saw what happened or if it was rebuilt. Also we don't know what actually happened to the original statue and it didn't seem to matter.
The nuclear plant party was just a Wolf of Wall Street ripoff that was absolutely absurd and they tried to make Homer "responsible" without a cause... To finally don't do it.
This episode had the potential to be funny or set themes and didn't accomplished a single thing.
5.2/10 on a post-classic Simpsons scale. As is often the case with even the most misguided Simpsons episodes, there's the germ of a good idea here. Mr. Burns wanting to put on a show to make up for the derisive laughter he received when performing at the Springfield Bowl as a child, with Lisa's help, is a solid premise, and there's even the wisp of emotional stakes to it. But man is it executed in a shaggy fashion with a lot of crud around it.
For starters, there's no real resolution to it. Mr. Burns just performs again, gets laughed at again, and then is fine with it because...he's senile. That's it. And the whole variety show idea seemed like a thin excuse to just do a one-off gags of various Springfielders putting on their loony acts. You can get away with that to an extent if the gags are funny, but it just felt like padding.
Similarly, the idea of the power plant partying with Mr. Burns gone, and Homer trying to be a good safety inspector when things are all on his shoulders is a solid B-story, but it's incredibly undercooked, and also basically without resolution (Homer tries to help, and then the plant starts shooting off firework-like explosions -- The End.) Throw in a first act story about the replacement Lard Lad statue turning into a light-refracting laser that destroys the town, which is pretty much forgotten about once we get to the burns stuff, and you have a Simpsons episode that falls into the usual late-era pitfalls of poor structure and poor pacing.
There were a couple of good jokes. Skinner's announcement about Mr. Burns looking for acts at the elementary school in the form of "There's an old man wandering around the school. Perform for him" was dark but funny, And Homer's frightened realization that he's the only safety inspector at the plant, followed by him urging Marge to get out of town while there's still roads was a nice beat. But for the most part it was one-off gags that felt pretty lazy. On top of that Amy Schumer was entirely wasted as Mr. Burns' mom (prior to affair with President Taft, presumably) in a part that could have been played by anyone and didn't really ask much of her.
Overall, a weak start to the new season.
(I did enjoy the Adventure Time crossover couch gag, though I was a little disappointed at some of the character-pairing choices they made. Why Chief Wiggum wasn't a Banana Guard is baffling to me!)
2 episodes and i don't laugh in any of them, this show needs to end because they don't have more ideias
Aaaahh!! What the heck is happening? To heck with this show and its damn excellence and brilliance!!! I've watched most episodes multiple times and this last episode has me totally scratching my head.
....But it feels so good to scratch the itch.. But i hate it. But it feels good.... Aaaaah!!!!