Yeah for all of Greg's issues "had to put his life on hold to take care of his sick dad" isn't one of them.

The Dream Ghosts episode would've made for a good series finale, honestly…but Rebecca can't be happy yet, so I'm guessing her theater love won't happen until the show gets close to an endgame.

I'm not a Team Greg fan, I just felt this episode kind of rushed through a lot of necessary plot and wasn't as fun and smart as the show is at its best. But that's not super uncommon with finales of a serialized comedy like this one.

The thing is…I think Rebecca grew a little more than this episode gave her credit for. She seemed genuinely happier and more content in the past 2 episodes in a way that didn't seem fake (like when she was denying her love for Josh). I get that they need to advance the plot which is why I'm very glad this wasn't the…

I'm also Team Neither and I feel like anyone who isn't is kind of missing the point…?

Agreed. But I want the show to end with Rebecca realizing it's not about the guys. I would be kind of pissed if this was the series finale but I'm confident they'll find new directions in S2.

Valencia is mostly a terrible person but she was maybe the most reasonable character in this entire episode.

Yeah I am worried about the implications of that last scene. Rebecca being obsessed with Josh again just spells "sophomore slump" to me :/

I'm not gonna lie, on first watch I didn't dig that finale. Not enough fun, way too much plot…but the last few seconds kinda saved it.

Am I the only one who was kind of let down by this finale? It seemed way less fun and smart than the season that preceded it, and seemed to undo a lot of the character development of the past few episodes. I think they got caught up in the need for plot development but I didn't really feel it was a satisfying cap to a…

What's weird is the first half of the season was doing really well in that regard, what with the food running out and the botched surgery and all, but since Phil's death it's reverted back to boring love triangles and Tandy being a jerk.

I feel like for '90s standards The Simpsons was pretty rebelliously liberal, but compared to now its political satire is definitely more even-handed. It just goes to show how much the culture has changed - it's hard for comedies to "see both sides" anymore because both sides have become such polar opposites.

I feel like the show's kind of been on a roll this season. It never really slumped but I think this season has had more classics than S5 so far.

Also a longtime Jerseyan, I've always figured the show is supposed to be in the far south Jersey Shore for some reason, like Wildwood/Cape May area (I think they actually namedropped Wildwood in an episode last season.) For some reason I feel like the beaches down there are a little more "natural" and more likely to…

The NJ shore is full of small sleepy towns that are almost deserted in the off-season but packed in the summer.

Nussbaum is a great writer and what I especially like about her is that she gives analysis to shows that a lot of people write off as shallow or not worth the time (read: anything that's not a gritty cable drama.) She was one of the first mainstream critics to give shows like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin,…

Yeah they need to get out of this "Tandy is such a dumb dumb LOL!" rut, there's so much interesting territory to explore that there's no excuse to keep repeating the same uninspired beats over and over.

This has to be one of the most inconsistent shows on TV. It goes from being one of the most poignant and interesting comedies on the air to totally unbearable within the span of a few episodes.

A psychologist is often a lazy trope but I think it works here because Kimmy genuinely did need therapy pretty desperately.

I don't agree that the resolutions belong in a Disney family movie - I think most of them have actually been surprisingly complex. Kimmy and her mom's relationship in particular - the show never shyed away from the fact that it's a broken relationship that will never be fully mended even in the sort-of-heartfelt…