In case you missed Superstore Season 5 Episode 16, you did not miss a lot.
As traditional, there was nothing drastically horrible in regards to the episode. The issue is that there was nothing drastically good about it, both.
Though the present has improved throughout the second half of Superstore Season 5, “Worker App” felt like a step backward from the progress the sequence has just lately made.
The episode did have its humorous moments, beginning with the storyline between Jonah and Garrett.
Jonah and Garrett’s friendship has all the time been one of many extra entertaining points of Superstore, and the sequence hasn’t been paying them the identical quantity of consideration it used to.
Jonah pranking, or “gaslighting” Garrett, was an attention-grabbing flip of occasions. It was satisfying to see Jonah get the higher hand on Garrett for as soon as, provided that it is often the opposite method round.
It was revenge for appearing like I am the loopy one! I even bought Ken to behave bizarre round him, too.
Jonah
Nonetheless, Garrett’s anger at Jonah felt unwarranted. That is to not say it wasn’t in character, however fairly, that Garrett wants to appreciate that you must deal with individuals the way in which you wish to be handled.
That is Garrett we’re speaking about, in order that’s possible a lesson he’ll by no means be taught, however I hoped for Jonah’s prank to go off with out a hitch and Garrett would come to his senses about Zephra’s new app.
Garrett: It is me! I appear like Uncle Phil! Man, why’d you do this silly Google search?!
Jonah: Woah, settle down.
Garrett: No, I am not gonna settle down! You settle down! You are all the time beginning stuff! “Hey, Garrett. Let’s Google tips on how to homicide any individual.” Effectively, you content now? What’s subsequent?! “Hey, Garrett. Let’s inform Zephra to e-mail the police and inform them I simply planted a bomb within the retailer!”
A company forcing its staff to obtain an app that may monitor their location at any given time should not be ignored.
Certain, some individuals could not care as a result of they do not have something to cover, however why does the corporate want all this data, within the first place?
The accuracy of the app’s GPS ought to be sufficient to make any sane particular person suspicious.
Realistically talking, an organization would have issue telling if somebody was within the breakroom or exterior within the hallway, however the extent that Zephra has gone to micro-manage every particular person ground employee is scarier than something Cloud 9 has ever accomplished.
So to reiterate, we should obtain an app that may monitor our telephones, after which we should carry our telephones always. And everyone right here is simply superb with that?
Jonah
Does this imply that Zephra is not as open-minded as they appeared on Superstore Season 5 Episode 15?
On condition that the union storyline did not have a satisfying shut, I will not be shocked if Jonah rallies the workers to battle towards the tech firm.
The sequence could also be referred to as “Superstore,” however it could actually get a bit repetitive when the characters by no means depart their administrative center.
Though the principle story is wrapped across the loopy conditions that occur to retail staff, the characters are so dynamic that they will flourish in any setting.
Amy and Dina’s journey exterior the shop was a pleasant change of surroundings, and it allowed them to hash out their points.
Viewers have seen a extra weak facet to Dina these days, and he or she opened as much as Amy for the primary time shortly.
I overreacted to the entire muting factor. I simply had a very arduous yr. My birds flew away. My dad turned out to be an enormous nothing. I am unable to even keep in mind the final time I had a boyfriend. Even Sandra bought married. Who noticed that coming?
Dina
Dina’s birds could have been launched throughout Superstore Season 4, however part of me all the time thought they might someway return.
Nonetheless, how a lot time has handed, it feels secure to say that the birds are gone for good.
It is a disgrace given how huge of a job they performed in Dina’s life and in establishing her character, and it makes me why the present determined to ditch Dina’s fowl’s, within the first place.
Was it merely a tactic to drive a wedge between Dina and Garrett?
There’s all the time a chance for Dina and Garrett to begin issues up once more, however contemplating the period of time that is handed since their fling, it is starting to really feel much less and fewer possible.
The content material of their scenes by no means indicate that there is nonetheless one thing between them, and until the present is planning on leaving that dynamic previously, it is curious why they determined to downplay the character of their relationship.
Jonah and Amy often is the Superstore’s important couple, however Garrett and Dina’s relationship was liable for an enormous chunk of the story.
We will not assist however hope that the sequence will come full circle and readdress what these characters are or aren’t to one another.
Now that Dina is hitting issues off with the vet, this might both be a possibility to push Garrett’s outdated emotions to the floor, or for Superstore to shut out that storyline, altogether.
Total, “Worker App” had some enjoyable moments.
There have been only a few causes to snort out loud, however there have been a handful of scenes that have been well-crafted.
All comedies are sure to have fillers, and that is precisely what this episode’s goal was.
We have got our fingers crossed that subsequent week’s installment will push the plot alongside, whereas concurrently giving viewers loads of alternatives to search out humor in Superstore’s ridiculous forged of characters.
Stray Ideas:
- Dina and Amy by no means discovered {the teenager} who purchased the chafing gasoline. Hopefully, that does not come again to hang-out them.
- Can we begin a petition to advertise Marcus to a sequence common? He went from changing into probably the most annoying character on the present to the funniest.
- Glenn was lacking from this episode, nevertheless it wasn’t a noticeable absence. I did not even understand it till after the very fact. Though his storyline has improved since changing into shift supervisor, his character has felt irrelevant ever since he stepped down as the shop supervisor.
- Was anybody else hoping for one thing larger to occur with the bomb squad? Sending one man to regulate the scenario after Garrett despatched a bomb risk to the police felt a bit anticlimactic.
It is your flip, Superstore followers! What did you consider “Worker App”?
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Superstore airs Thursdays at 8/7c on NBC.
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