As I was watching this episode, I couldn’t decide whether or not I liked it: I was anticipating the story to go further into Midge’s blooming comedy career, but instead we got a pulled-back look at the post-breakup states of her and Joel and their families. But I think this direction was worth it for the final act…

Late to this party, but I’m here! The show has been so well reviewed so far that I wanted to give it a try. I know people won’t come back to these old reviews, but I’ll be reading them after watching each episode and still commenting when I have thoughts.

Oh yes, I am remembering all of that now... Thank you!

Oooo my Glen-Garry-George award definitely goes to Dr. Shin for the hilarious line “You need to redefine failure...as I did, when I only got into my safety school.” Also, possibly the totally-not-real Sheila Girlface? She sounds cool.

The promo for the next episode shows WhiJo and Nathaniel half-stripping on stage, so we’ll see pretty soon what is going on with them.

Wait, was there a scene showing Rebecca resigning that I have forgotten about, or did it happen offscreen? And when exactly did this take place again?

I almost forgot about that! In hindsight, that was a cheap way to break them up. I get they were trying to show Max’s growing maturity, but it did come out of the blue. At least here, the writers have given a substantial amount of development to Darryl and White Josh to make their decoupling feel more rationalized.

Oliver, you always criticize the side plots around the hotel and Anezka and Luisa and Magda, yet you keep giving A grades to these episodes. It’s all a bit confusing.

Agreed on the lack of Stray Observations—always a fun staple of AV Club reviews and sadly missing in these reviews.

I didn’t enjoy some of Future Man’s earlier episodes because of how they didn’t move the story forward: generally, the gang would attempt something with no success and therefore end up back at square one. But after watching this finale, I think this stagnancy was kind of the point all along, as Josh points out that…

But she would exist, because she’s traveling to the future from the past, as someone who had not been originally affected by the now nonexistence of the Biotic Wars, right?

That Tiger-is-possibly-a-Biotic hint was so enticing, I was on the edge of my seat! And I think there also needs to be some explanation of what happened with the Biotics and the future after Kronish died and the building went down, so we definitely need a second season!

Josh Hutcherson playing both terrible Joosh and original nice Josh made me appreciate his performance a lot more, especially when he peppily delivers a line like “I Bloogled it on my Blapple.”

His assholery was certainly taken a little to the extreme, but I think there is some basis of it coming from Josh’s insecurities we saw in the pilot: his total inaptitude (besides with video games) and his lack of friends (which he even mentioned himself in this episode). Those insecurities did not get much time to…

I very much enjoyed this episode from a storytelling perspective: it was an interesting, complex mix of time jumps and flashbacks and flashforwards, and it was a great way to just let Tiger and Wolf go through their respective journeys with real depth and experience. Tiger’s arc was pleasantly unexpected; we hadn’t…

Agreed! I really liked Tiger’s detour through the ‘50s; it was an unexpected path that brought out a different side to her character.

While I’m still a little dubious about the believability of Wolf’s development up to this point—he went from die-hard soldier to peaceful chef very quickly—I did love his plotline with Tiger in this episode. It does ultimately make sense that Wolf loves the 80s given his extreme personality. To be clear, I don’t…

It is a little stagnant in the beginnning, but I think it picks up around the middle of the season: the narrative actually goes places, and the humor gets more sophisticated.

This was easily the strongest and funniest episode of the series so far. The hyper-specificity elevated this episode to a level of specialness and artfulness, and the refined mode of humor was a welcome departure from the show’s usual excessive crudeness. And beyond the on-point jokes, the storyline was equally as…

This was easily the strongest and funniest episode of the series so far. The hyper-specificity elevated this episode to a level of specialness and artfulness, and the refined mode of humor was a welcome departure from the show’s usual excessive crudeness. And beyond the on-point jokes, the storyline was equally as…