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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 22 “The Company Retreat” (B+)

When I wrote this review, this show hadn't yet been renewed or cancelled, but it was officially axed before the time I had scheduled it to post. I’ve enjoyed it and would have liked to see more of it, but I was already not feeling optimistic. This was a fitting ending in a lot of ways, if that’s what it is, giving us some romantic closure and sending Jack back out into the wild, even just for a few months. When Clark was talking about making a mistake at the company retreat, I had flashbacks to his debut film role in “Superbad” where Jonah Hill excitedly declared, “We could be that mistake!” Calling Greg to let him know that he was making his move was hardly a productive thing, but I like that when he showed up and they were about to fight, they decided just to hug instead. Emma overhearing everything and then kissing Clark was wonderful, and I’m glad that she does remember it even if she’s pretending that she blacked out. I love that Jack, in his own words, Clarked it and called Paul rather than kiss Brooke when the moment was right, and it seems like the long-delayed couple may work out after all. The goodbye to Jack, complete with Clark hiding in his duffel bag, was fun, and if that’s the last we see of this show, it would be a satisfying end. I never expected to enjoy this show so much. Since it got cancelled, I'll be sure to remember it fondly.

Season grade: B+
Season MVP: Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Clark

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 20 “Roland’s Secret” (B+)

As of the writing of this review, the first season of this show has already ended – the season finale aired earlier this week – and its chances of getting renewed are highly unlikely. This hasn’t been my favorite new show of the year but I’d also love to be able to see more of it. This episode was fun because it put Jack in a different position than usual, not at the center of the action but instead trying to mediate a situation that he should never have been a part of in the first place. Roland’s attitudes on marriage completely contradict everything that Brooke believes, since she’s waiting so long to finally tie the knot with Paul because she needs to be certain that it’s right. Roland, on the other hand, was more than happy to get hitched to Sheryl, who was played by familiar TV face Jane Leeves, best known for “Frasier” and “Hot in Cleveland.” Brooke thinking that she was the marriage counselor when she showed up at the office was extremely awkward and funny. Paul wanting to wait when Brooke said they should just go for it is a bad omen, and I suspect she’s finally going to have a moment with Jack in the finale. Clark has also managed to be noticed by Emma after she was sick and he failed at a romantic gesture, but that gave him the confidence to ask out the Soup-ergirl who calls him Clark Kent. I wonder if he’ll be able to realize that she sees him now or if he’ll embark on a totally different romance.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 20 “The Heartbreaker” (B)

There are definitely some mismatched couples on this show, and with Rachel out of the picture, I think that the only sensible pair that we see on an episodic basic would be Jack and Brooke. Honestly, Greg and Clark get along a whole lot better than Greg and Emma do, and I enjoyed the fact that Clark took the guy who is keeping him from being with Emma out for a whole day just so that he wouldn’t have to lose him in the friendship. Mason wasn’t too helpful in keeping Emma occupied, and instead she showed up just as Clark told Greg that he was about to be dumped. It seems like Clark is never going to make a move, and this show is sure to be cancelled before she ever does anything. Brooke, on the other hand, did have an important realization thanks to Jack that she has very little in common with Paul, and that it’s something that she needs to address. Jack’s attempt to help Eddie have a good time on his divorce-aversary didn’t get off to a strong start when he accidentally took her to a bar recommended by his ex-wife, but even with her being there and his incessant efforts to showcase his magic, he seems to have done very well moving on all on his own. Eddie isn’t my favorite character on the show, but he’s usually good for a bit of entertainment, and this episode turned out to be a pretty good showcase, especially since we got to see flashes of the crazy Brooke who used to be.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 19 “Ricky Leaks” (B+)

This episode should win an award for its great title. I was trying to figure out where I knew Ricky the IT guy from, and some quick research suggests that it was the truly awful pilot for TBS’ “Ground Floor,” which I remember seeing advertised at a Coffee Bean in New York City long after it went off the air. Jack is relatively functional in the world due to his swagger and self-confidence, and therefore it’s easy to forget – or maybe just hard to believe – that he would still be paying thirty dollars for an AOL e-mail account with no knowledge of the existence of Gmail or any of the million other free email providers. I really enjoyed the way that the dump played out, as announced in an unfortunately-phrased way every time by Ricky. The playing field was also pretty even, with everyone trying to hide something from the rest of the team. I think Emma was safest in what got revealed about her, and I was hoping that Clark’s crush on Emma would come out as part of it as it almost did. Instead, Jack got to step up and be unselfish for once, revealing his tryst with Brooke as a way of saving Clark from a crushingly embarrassing confession. Mason’s obsession with his boat was decidedly peculiar, and I love that he was the architect of a list of fifty ways to get Brooke to give you a day off. Brooke inspiring the final dump by blatantly refusing to apologize showed some nice fire, and it seems like everything worked out in the end.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 18 “Party Paul” (B+)

I’d always thought that Jack’s history with Brooke was something that would come out eventually and cause some real drama, but I think I’ve been thinking about it all wrong. Jack liked to mock Paul because he truly doesn’t seem real, but he’s still loyal enough to Brooke as a friend that he’s willing to try to make Paul seem decent to Roland when he saw what it meant to her. Roland also happens to be terrible at lying and completely ignorant of how improve is supposed to work, and only once did Jack give him a taste of his own medicine by setting him up to step in it. Paul didn’t seem quite as bad – or bland – as normal, but he was still never going to live up to Roland’s expectations for his daughter, which apparently are represented well by Jack. Their constantly rotating piano reunion was odd but entertaining. It’s useful that Emma has a way to keep track of her boyfriend which helped them find out where Jack and Roland were when they were out on the town and then to find Paul when he disappeared from the bar. Jack’s efforts to be accepting of Mason being bisexual were pretty cringeworthy, and I’m surprised that Mason knew more than two words that started with “bi.” Eddie being worried about not being in great shape for his first physical in eight years and started a diet on a whim was very typical, and at least he’s good for some minor comic relief.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 17 “Cubicles” (B+)

As one of the few shows on CBS that didn’t score a renewal about two weeks ago, the clock is likely ticking for this show, but I’m glad to see it still on the air, especially with two episodes offered last week. Jack’s inability to get anything done at the office is nothing new, because he works with infantile millennials who don’t understand boundaries. Brooke installing cubicles in the office was an interesting idea, and of course it would be presented as the most foreign thing to these people who are used to being in each other’s faces and right next to each other the entire day. Their reactions were a bit excessive, particularly Clark cutting a hole in the cubicle to communicate with Jack, and I actually found Brooke’s enjoyment of her mean girl behavior, that came out in a big, ugly way, to be the most entertaining part of that plotline. Mason and Clark both saying the exact same thing at the same time was funny, and their friendship only got stronger as Emma obsessed over the enigma of Ashley Gordon, who turned out to be Jack! Rachel’s departure was probably inevitable but still unfortunate since I like Maggie Lawson, but at least we still have Eddie, who’s really terrible at getting out of constricting situations in his efforts to be a magician. We didn’t see Roland at all in this hour, but Brooke still had a moment worthy of her family when she told Jack that having an office was no picnic when she literally had a cheese plate on the floor next to her.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 16 “Aaron Wolf” (B)

Sometimes, this show makes a better case for itself than other times. I was pleased to see that we got a bonus episode after this show was off the air for a few weeks, and I think my expectations when I saw that Chris D’Elia was guest-starring were right on. I couldn’t stand him in NBC’s three-season comedy “Undateable,” and he wasn’t any more tolerable here as Aaron Wolf, Jack’s former friend and current nemesis who represented everything that was wrong with the adventure reporting industry in a totally different way than the millennials. After starting out by advertising that you should eat dragon testicles, he insisted on taking off his shirt a number of times for no reason, and managed to undo the hard work Jack had done to motivate his disciples to actually care about what they’re doing. When Mason wasn’t on board with lying to his constituents because they were using green screen, it was clear that he had crossed a line and had to go, as if needing to want to have sex with an idea for it to be good was a substantial way of measuring concept validity. Emma didn’t fall under his spell like she did for bad-boy Clark, but Brooke definitely did. I enjoyed watching Clark rise to Jack’s defense in his hatred of Aaron, hitting him and then even jumping on his back to try to take him out, resulting in the self-involved adventurer not even noticing that a human was attached to his neck.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 15 “Relationship Jack” (B+)

We’ve seen how Jack responds in a handful of situations, but I don’t think we’ve ever really seen him happy. It was Eddie’s initial reaction to hearing him use the word “blankies” that first sounded the alarm, and things only got worse from there. I kept waiting for Jack to suddenly snap out of it and start being mean again, but even his insults were tempered to the point of secret cuddling time. I was pleased to see that even Rachel found it to be too much, and that she was desperate to work with Roland to figure out a way to get the regular Jack back. It’s completely true that Jack immerses himself in everything he does if he likes it, and the allure of staying on a couch barely moving for two full days doesn’t seem like something that would normally be up hi alley, but apparently it enabled him to fully change his behavior, even stooping to the level of asking Esther a follow-up question to her morning anecdote. Clark slipping into the Jack persona was an entertaining if highly unbelievable experience, and the way that he managed to appeal to Esther, Emma, and Brooke just by dressing and speaking differently was pretty absurd. I hope that somehow he’ll be able to keep a bit of that to pursue the relationship with Emma that seems to have been put on hold recently. Roland’s alcohol references, if repetitive, remain consistently amusing, but not as much as the fact that he couldn’t remember the exact number of times that he’d been married.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 14 “Friends Like These” (B+)

I’m so happy that, after a brief introduction, Maggie Lawson’s Rachel is now an official part of the show, spending the entire episode trying to dig a little deeper into Jack and encourage him to open up and let her into his life. She really is a good fit for Jack, eagerly indulging in pretending to have other couples’ conversations with him, all of which ended with someone leaving to go masturbate. They’re also both people who don’t love the people they’re surrounded by, and that’s why this party ended up being a true disaster. Brooke actually wins the award for worst interaction since she decided to reveal that she and Jack had slept together when her first try at bonding – Thai food – failed. Clark showing up with a prostitute wasn’t great, and his failure to even consider it shows just how out of touch he is with the world around him. I love that Clark and Greg got along so well, to the point that Emma got mad at Greg for hanging out with him more. Paul essentially running a murder mystery about who threw his murder mystery in the trash was funny, and he continues to be immensely awkward. Mason getting addicted to the bump gum was somewhat fun, and it’s at least nice to see him invested in something. It was sweet to see the millennials show up at the end of the episode to steal Jack and Rachel’s couples-talking thing to mend faces with Rachel, and after their exit, it seems like we’ll be seeing more of this couple again soon.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 13 “DTR” (B)

This show is, more than anything else, about just how different millennials are from their elders, and therefore it was inevitable that we would see Jack trying so hard not to become the thing he hates so much. Hooking up with a younger woman wasn’t the best idea to begin with, and then it turned out that she was Mason’s roommate. Jack’s horrified reaction to the sight of first Mason, then Clark, then Emma in her apartment in the morning was funny, and of course these three spend so much time together outside of work that they carpool to the office. Jack’s efforts to keep up with the young lifestyle didn’t go too well, and his inability to understand basic parts of modern culture that he probably should have - like what “molly” actually means - did him a true disservice. Brooke had the chance to join in on the fun and mock Jack along with the millennials, and I can’t wait until their past romance comes to light and she gets to go back on the defensive. Eddie also got to offer some commentary, mainly pointing out that Jack wasn’t keeping up with what was going on, since he’s considerably more in-tune with the hipper vibes simply because they come to spend money at his bar. After learning that everyone and their best friend was in a relationship with his new girlfriend, Jack made a much smarter choice - to reach back out to the woman we met at the start of the episode. I’ve been a fan of Maggie Lawson since she first appeared on “Crumbs” over a decade ago and enjoyed her most on “Psych.” I hope that she’ll prove to be a great addition here and that she’ll have the chance to come out of her handshake-driven shell a bit too.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 12 “Paul’s Surprise” (B+)

So, twelve episodes in, we finally got to meet Paul, who it turns out is very real. I like that, stupid as it may seem, this show is committed to making Paul seem like a cat, giving Jack enormous uncontrollable satisfaction for having a joke he made actually come true. Paul was definitely very annoying, cracking unfunny jokes one after another and then saying “gotcha” to prove that he had absolutely no sense of comic timing. Being asked to read Roland’s incredibly long toast with an intermission was an unfortunate development that Jack probably would have been smart to turn down, and instead he managed to get all three of his adoring underlings to not talk to him since they truly couldn’t believe how mean he had been. Even Esther wouldn’t overshare with Jack because she was so mad at him. The interpretation of Jack as an emotional otter seemed appropriate, and his enthusiasm for apologies was, as Eddie pointed out, proof that he wasn’t doing it right. Having the millennials prepare a very weird version of New Orleans was a sweet way of making up for his behavior, and getting them a ride on a private jet to the real thing was even more selfless and kind. I enjoyed the subplot of Clark, Mason, and Emma trying to figure out which one of them was in charge, leading to their eventual discovery, as summed up by Clark, that they were part of a “rock paper scissors management style” that actually proved to be quite effective.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 11 “Mason Blows Up” (B+)

This storyline was coming since the show started, and though much of it was pretty predictable, I’m pretty happy with how it all played out. Jack was keeping all of the good stories for himself because he didn’t think that any of his mentees were competent enough to really put the work in to do well and didn’t deserve to because of their millennial attitude. Mason scoring big with his exposé about the missing tiger was completely dominated by his obnoxious “Y’busted” catchphrase, something with Brooke hilariously insisted on defining for Jack while wearing the shirt and generally getting into the vibe of being up with what’s hip. Mason being asked to do a reedit of Jack’s piece and getting all the credit was the last straw, and their appearance on the radio show hosted by a whispering Ravi Patel in his most subdued guest spot ever was a real low point. Jack agreeing to give him real things to do was an important moment of growth, though he’s clearly not ready to listen to Clark recount his dreams. It was fun to see Clark, after unwillingly encouraging Emma stay with her boyfriend, start helping out at Eddie’s bar and recommending that every customer give up on their relationship. Accidentally guiding Emma’s boyfriend in the right direction was an unfortunate if totally foreseeable development, and now his likelihood of romancing her is considerably more diminished. My favorite part was Roland’s wild metaphorical lesson that involved threatening to shoot a real parrot with a water gun, a truly odd show of force indeed.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 10 “The Explorers’ Club” (B+)

While most of this show takes place in an office, a big part of it has to do with the larger-than-life stories that its characters tell about their time spent in nature. Roland’s invitation to speak introduced our millennial employees - and us as viewers - to a world in which Jack is the Clark, constantly trying to fit in and subject to endless barbs about his appearance, character, and so much more. Fortunately, Joel McHale is great at assuming a certain role, and seeing him get awkward and desperate is entertaining. Roland was also more than capable of dishing out his own insults directed at Mather, the haughty president of the Chicago Adventure Society played by Barry Bostwick. Roland’s incredible story about how his friend Arturo died was torpedoed by Mather’s attempt to discredit him, and what we saw after that was not great. Roland wasn’t down for long however, as his graphic tale of hollowing out birds to sleep in them and dying from explosive diarrhea helped to vindicate him, and even inspired the millennials to write an article to clear his name, actually putting in effort for once. Emma serving as a mentor to someone because she felt like she already had so much insight to offer at age twenty-six, and naturally the younger person would accomplish enough to make her think that she was becoming obsolete. Eddie thinking everyone was planning a surprise for his birthday was plenty uncomfortable, but at least they eventually did something so he didn’t feel totally unvalued.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 9 “The Mediocre Outdoors” (B+)

A lot of this episode was silly, as this show in general tends to be, but it actually worked pretty well and I found myself generally entertained. It’s no surprise to me at all that the millennials on this show have never actually been camping and that Brooke hired them even with that knowledge. Naturally, Jack wouldn’t want to take them with him because he’d probably either go insane or kill them, but some secret communication with Roland was enough to convince him. The idea that Jack, Roland, and Brooke fluently speak languages from around the world is fun, mainly because we never actually get to see them traveling around to the far corners of the Earth; we just hear seemingly made-up stories about their exploits. What’s funnier is that, when Roland dropped Jack in the middle of the woods and then he did the same to Clark, Emma, and Mason,they were retreating to a fancy stay at a nearby hotel, where they could indulge in all the things they were withholding from those being forced to encounter the elements. It took some time and an Uber Eats delivery for the kids to wake up and realize what they had to do, and it was nice to see them “retweet” without their phones. That was far more peaceful than the sight of Brooke smearing snake’s blood on her face as war paint, something that was apparently quite enticing to Jack. I think this is the closest to the outdoors we’ll get with this group, and it was good fun.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 8 “Office Romance” (B)

Clark’s crush on Emma was going to come up sooner than later, and it did in a big way when Jack walked in on Clark telling his best bud Mason about it and couldn’t resist the opportunity to meddle. I love that Clark keeps his secret eight-year-plan to get with Emma hidden in a Settlers of Catan box, something that intrigued Brooke enough late one night to inspire her to stumble upon it. Naturally Clark doesn’t know a thing about dating, and he was actually relieved to know that there was a ban in place on interoffice dating since it meant he didn’t have to accelerate his plan past the non-moving speed at which it was proceeding. Jack had no trouble getting that obstacle removed, with unforeseen consequences of course, namely the fact that he tuned out of a date and ended up agreeing to a relationship with a coworker that he had absolutely no desire to be a part of and wanted out of as quickly as possible. Clark pointing out that he could actually be helpful in breaking up with a girl since he’s been dumped so much was a fun twist, and while Jack didn’t quite follow his advice, it was nice to see him able to be useful for once. Clark grabbing Emma’s hand while coaching Jack was sweet, and her reaction to his playbook was equally positive, which was great. Mason’s obsession with knowing secrets is random but fun, and I like that Eddie accidentally told him that he didn’t know all of the office secrets, prompting him to dig deeper and, sooner than later, uncover Jack’s relationship with Brooke, which neither of them want to get out to their millennial colleagues.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 7 “At Emma” (B+)

I know it’s not sophisticated, but sometimes this show just cracks me up. I’m happy to ignore all the hopelessly sexual innuendos that Clark cluelessly made at the zoo, and instead focus on the main millennial problem of the installment: Emma expected a raise for not actually doing anything spectacular and got a harsh reality check from our good friend Jack. Framing it as a warning rather than a promotion since he had just seen her literally sleeping - unapologetically - on her desk moments earlier predictably sent her running, and in this new information age, that means getting a job at a rival company right away. I enjoyed Jack and Roland’s efforts to do her hourly tasklist, with the higlights being Jack’s blurry “hashtag lapm” picture and Roland confusing Google and Twitter, typing in such things as “private mode Judi Dench bikini” and then posting them. Emma’s new workplace was totally absurd, and I loved Jack’s interactions with the hipster who was not at all impressed with him, a sentiment Jack echoed perfectly. Jack’s hire was also pretty poor, and his attempts to defend her fell very flat. Eddie’s eagerness to rebrand and dabble in magic was a fun subplot, and the best part was when Clark freaked out when, somehow, Eddie delivered his order of a hot dog by telling him to check behind his ear. I’m not so sure that’s possible, but there are plenty of things on this show that require a considerable amount of suspension that has to be excused for it to work.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 6 “Going Deep” (B-)

This show definitely isn’t sophisticated, but even this relatively weak installment was still pretty entertaining. We haven’t seen too much of Eddie thus far as a character in his own right, and in this episode, he got to play a bigger part, reeling from his divorce being finalized and not being sure how to move on. It was fun to see Jack disconnected almost entirely from the millennials and from his adventurer job, instead serving as a questionable influence for his best friend with his flighty advice and easy-to-regret solutions. I like that Brooke showed up to combat Jack’s ideals, instead offering a different form of therapy for the man I guess she calls her friend. Her best solution was definitely the creation of a divorce registry, something that led to the revelation that her registry expired because her engagement has gone on for almost four years. Obviously Jack is still pining for her, and she’s completely clueless that he might be a better choice than the man obsessed with a different kind of jam session. The goings-on inside the office weren’t as enticing, though it was sweet to see that Mason’s first reaction to Clark’s admission that he was into Emma was not to mock him but to be upset that his best friend hadn’t shared it with him. The early episode visit to the cart with free insults hurled at customers came back in a great way when Jack pulled off a fantastic prank by recommending it as a destination to Clark and Emma when they went on their sort-of date.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 5 “No Bad Ideas” (B)

This show is always close to the line of becoming a very formulaic sitcom, particularly when it comes to the receptionist who welcomes Jack every day with a different irreverent overshare about her personal life. Starting out with an old-fashioned sensitivity training video for how to work with millennials almost had a similar effect, but that’s this show’s hook, and it’s sticking with it. Clark reciting his review word-for-word as Jack was reading it was an excellent example of how absurd this workplace is, and Emma and Mason never even considering doing work after they finished selecting a new intern reinforced that in a big way. Clark’s hot mom coming into the office to tell Jack off for giving her son actual criticism was a humorous development, and I do hope we see her again, especially since I’m curious to see what would happen if Jack started dating her, which seems inevitable. I love that we saw a lot of Brooke in this episode, trying to rap to tell an intern what to do and then saying all the wrong things while trying to search for diversity in the workplace. She hasn’t been used all that much over the course of the show, and I’m eager to see more of her too, particularly when her romantic past with Jack inevitably comes to light. Closing with Clark taking careful notes during the O.L.D. seminar was a great capper to this episode focused heavily on the generational gap that this show so loves featuring.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 4 “You Don’t Know Jack” (B)

This show continues to be entertaining even if it’s hardly the most sophisticated series on the air at the moment. This episode in particular was a skewering parody of the 90s and the way that cultural norms and technology have evolved. Finding an atlas and exclaiming that “they used to print out Google Maps” was the epitome of the inability of our three millennial employees to comprehend what once was, and they didn’t even know where to start with the cassette that was in Jack’s answering machine. I love that Emma was the one who got invested in the search for information about Jack’s ex since she usually isn’t as invested as her male colleagues, and she masterfully hid four empty Red Bull cans to go along with the eight on her desk, leading to an inevitable crash shortly thereafter. If Jack was a hacker’s greatest challenge because he never posts anything, Jessie was much easier to track and locate. I couldn’t figure out where I knew her from, and it turns out that she was played by Dorian Brown, best known for her role as Ryan’s sister Kristen on “Wilfred.” Finding out that she cheated on him was definitely a blow, but it helped him to move on to be his own person. I’m still excited to learn more about his romance with Brooke, who shocked her underlings in this installment by dressing up in a way that showed her to be far less square than they all thought.

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The Great Indoors: Season 1, Episode 3 “Step One: Shelter” (B)

Okay, so this show is a little silly, but I’m enjoying it and I think I’m going to stick with it, at least for the time being. The levels of excess at the magazine really are crazy, but the notion of a massage chair and a frozen yogurt machine don’t seem so absurd when you hear that Jack is charging a luxury hotel room to his corporate card and hasn’t paid for a place to live in decades. Clark’s apartment was truly comical in its tiny proportions, and the explosive air mattress was a sight to behold. I think that’s going a bit far in terms of what it represents about these millennials who have no concept of what it’s like to really have your own space, but Jack threw in enough barbs about sleeping next to Kylo Ren that it was all relatively worth it. I’m not sure which was more off-putting: the shower that also serves as a sink and dishwasher or the toilet that pops out of the wall and can only be flushed once a day. Especially since her father made her tell her mother that they were getting a divorce years earlier, it was about time that Brooke refused to be the bad cop. Unfortunately, Roland is pretty terrible at it, either apologizing and offering even more expensive crowd-pleasing alternatives or chewing out people for the simplest things just to see them sweat. I’m never a fan of spoilers, but at least I watch “Game of Thrones,” so the three bombshells that Jack dropped to get the Korean family out of Eddie’s home didn’t devastate me.