What I’m Watching: Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral: Season 1, Episode 8 “Game Night” (B-)

This show is getting sappier, and it’s also including some pretty absurd developments. Ainsley isn’t terribly perceptive, but it’s still a stretch to think to believe that she would somehow perceive that Maya had a crush on Marcus, her colleague who she so clearly hates and who hates her back just as much. The game night was a silly excuse to bring everyone together, with Marcus, Andrew, and Bryce all showing up because they were invited by someone because of their feelings about another that had yet to be properly expressed. It seemed like Tony was just being a jerk to Andrew, and the revelation that he doesn’t have his papers and his potential boyfriend is sponsoring a bill that might get him kicked out of the country helps to explain some of his hesitation in that department. I like that Bryce shut the door when Ainsley came to deliver a big speech largely comprised of insults, and something tells me he won’t give up. Kash and Maya have gotten very close recently, and knowing that she had to show up at the wedding is a good sign for their relationship and a bad sign for the future fury that Ainsley will evidently express if her reaction to her even going to his show was any indication. It’s a wonder Kash held onto his job this long, and hopefully his father can accept his new choices in life. Marrying Maya down the road will certainly help. Zara’s Nosecrets board game was indeed a flop, but it’s nice that she and Craig will soon be welcoming a baby into the world – a plot twist not spoiled by this show’s title!

What I’m Watching: People of Earth (Season Finale)

People of Earth: Season 2, Episode 10 “Game Night” (B+)

They may be a different species that purports superintelligence over their human subjects, but these aliens really aren’t all that smart. Even Eric didn’t realize that all it would take to stop Gerry from being triggered by the fives becoming twos, a humorously simple way of describing both dice showing the same number, would be someone showing up and tackling him to the ground so that it would sound like he was glitching. The game was pretty intense and cool, though of course its aim was to have Gerry kill everyone in the group, which wasn’t great. Fortunately, Walsh showed up at just the right moment and Yvonne hadn’t gotten rid of all – or any – of her weapons, so Gerry posed no threat. Alex wasted no time in arresting Walsh in front of her very proud newfound twin sister, and it’s a good thing that Walsh quickly proved both that the FBI was lying and that he was an alien so that he and the two sisters can fight to get their friends back. Jeff already failed to kill the bee, and he, Don, and Kurt didn’t realize that Eric was able to shrink his box size down, enabling him to escape their bigger box and then fly up Don’s nose to take control of his body. The sight of all of our friends, including Doug, strapped to beds onboard the ship with a possessed Don marching back and forth and telling them not to be weird was an unsettling ending, especially since the only way they survive, I’d imagine, is if their memories get wiped, but I suppose we’ll see when the show returns for what I know will be a great season three.

Season grade: A-
Season MVP: Ken Hall as Jeff