What I’m Watching: Good Girls

Good Girls: Season 3, Episode 7 “Vegas, Baby” (C-)

Okay, now things have gone too far, and I’m giving this show one more episode before I just give up. The botched robbery was the first sign of how these three women, for how clever they are to be able to stay alive so long, continue to make absolutely poor decisions that lead to very expected and poor consequences for them and those around them. Annie is clearly the least responsible of the three, and technically this wasn’t her fault, but she would probably have been a better fit to have created a diversion outside than to be in charge of defusing a situation where someone ended up getting shot. Stan getting into illicit business because he decided he wasn’t righteous enough to become a cop again hardly seems like the most logical option, and he’s definitely going to get into trouble as he sees the potential for financial gain. I don’t even want to touch on Dean making a power play when Gayle tried to fire him since it’s both stupid and uninteresting. Beth introducing Max to Rio was in no way a good or plausible idea, mainly because there’s no reason that Rio wouldn’t have done some research and known what the problematic boyfriend he wanted to kill looked like. Most absurdly, Rio spent an extraordinary amount of effort to neatly move every single thing in Beth’s home, a symbolic message that will have Beth’s children making too much noise and will accomplish so little. It’s just too unbelievable, and I can’t imagine this show will go somewhere positive after that.

What I’m Watching: This Is Us

This Is Us: Season 2, Episode 16 “Vegas, Baby” (B)

Now that we’ve officially moved on from the tragedy of Jack’s untimely death, we’re back to exploring him and Rebecca as a couple and how they were generally overwhelmed with happiness whenever they stopped to appreciate what they had. Jack got a lot of credit for the gifts that he would get Rebecca and the way that he would celebrate, and naturally taking a year off wouldn’t actually mean much. It was sweet to see the kids try so hard to do something special to their parents and then pretend to abandon it as soon as they got confirmation that they weren’t getting a divorce, leaving them to discover the actual surprise upstairs after they cleaned up the mess. For the first time in a bit, we spent some solid time in the present, with Toby and Kate having concurrent bachelor and bachelorette parties in Las Vegas, a smart idea to keep everyone close to together. Kevin and Randall did seem way too distracted by what was going on in their lives to spend time with the groom-to-be, and it was nice that a push in the right direction from Kate got them to give him the affirmation this lonely brother needed. Beth and Kate also got to bond, which was good since Beth is probably the most underappreciated character on this show, and hopefully Susan Kelechi Watson will join the rest of the cast as an Emmy nominee this summer. It’s exciting to see things work out for Kevin and his movie in a way that didn’t negatively impact his relationship with a very understanding Ron Howard, and Randall got the worst kind of affirmation that he was right about Deja when they found her sleeping with her mom in her car.