What I’m Watching: Episodes

Episodes: Season 3, Episode 3 “Episode Three” (B+)

This was a rollercoaster of an episode, and surprisingly little of it had to do with Beverly and Sean’s relationship. In fact, their interactions with two of the offending parties were entirely work-related. I enjoyed Morning’s enthusiasm about her ability to skate, and her perspective on how making a woman the coach would be quite progressive. It seems like no one wants to work on “Pucks” these days, and it’s been so long since the production of the show has played a role in this show’s drama that I had all but forgotten how truly bad the series is supposed to be. I recognized Sam Palladio, Gunnar from “Nashville,” as Stoke, whose movie-inspired schedule changes got all of the uproar started, and I liked Matt’s reaction to him gesturing at him when he said fifty (LeBlanc, it turns out, is a few years younger than that in real life). Matt asking Beverly and Sean to be killed off so that he could do their old assistant’s pilot was a bad idea, and there’s no way that would work out anyway. Castor started things off poorly with his team by calling a 6am meeting he then forgot to attend, and he’s definitely certifiably crazy, which makes Carol seem sane by comparison. Carol coming to the defense of “Pucks” when Carol literally threw it in the trash was noble, but it seems that Beverly doesn’t know Carol well enough to place value on their friendship, which is going to spell trouble and likely doom for the show going forward.