Zoey lastly opens up her coronary heart (songs) to another person in an outstanding finale (that wraps up a tonally uneven season in an ideal little bow). Learn on for my assessment of “Zoey’s Extraordinary Goodbye”:
It looks as if nearly everybody round Zoey is in good spirits, residing their life and singing a track (particularly “Sing a Music!”) Zoey, nevertheless, can’t share within the predominant good temper. Max’s farewell get together is rapidly approaching, and as she faces saying goodbye to her greatest pal, Zoey begins to have second ideas about whether or not placing issues on pause with him was the precise concept.
Her coronary heart set elsewhere, Zoey makes to interrupt up with Simon, however he really beats her to the punch, bringing it up in a second alone at work. “Right here I used to be pondering this was gonna be laborious as f–k,” she says. Simon expresses the identical feeling that Max did earlier within the season – “You understand every little thing about me, Zoey. And there’s a chunk of you that I can’t know. That you simply gained’t let me know.” Nonetheless, the 2 nonetheless half amicably (later, she hears Simon singing “I’m Nonetheless Standing” by Elton John, indicating that he didn’t take their separation too laborious).
Max and Rose’s goodbye get together finally ends up being an important place for your complete prolonged solid of characters to “Shake it Off,” say (you recognize the track). Many alternative supporting characters are prepared to maneuver ahead with their lives. Mo and Perry, as an illustration, who’ve been on dangerous phrases since Perry confessed his hesitations, sing “We Can Work it Out” after Zoey prompts them to acknowledge their lingering emotions for each other.
Leif finds out that an organization that’s suing SPRQ Level over the Dronephone is a small start-up made up of younger individuals of shade. Danny Michael Davis had supposed to squash them in court docket, however discovering this out makes Leif really feel like a special plan of action could be extra acceptable. Leif brings it to Simon, who reveals curiosity in figuring out a greater answer for everybody concerned. Simon goes to Danny the following day and suggests buying the corporate as a substitute, so the opposite crew can proceed to develop the challenge and in addition work their means up in SPRQ Level’s ranks. Danny takes to the concept, and promotes Simon for the second time, placing him in command of the challenge.
Everybody toasts Max goodbye, however in relation to Zoey’s flip, she begins to speak about how she received the SPRQ Level job over him (which, as we recall from final week, she really didn’t, though Max by no means informed her). After seeing her coworkers’ confused reactions, Danny tells Zoey the reality and she or he totally realizes how a lot Max has all the time given to make her blissful. Pissed off that he would do such a factor and never inform her, Zoey begins to berate Max in non-public, however Max confesses that he didn’t quit the job out of pity, however as a result of he really felt she deserved it extra. “Sorry you needed to discover out like this,” he says. She stops him earlier than she leaves, however solely tells him that she’ll miss him.
That evening, Zoey has a dream of her father within the SPRQ Level workplace, the place she tells him about all of her stresses and struggles together with her life and her powers. She goals of Max leaving and panics, not eager to let him go. She realizes this complete time she’s been afraid of taking a threat with him, resulting in her being closed-off towards him and pushing their potential relationship to the backburner. Encouraging her to chase after what she needs with no regrets, Mitch sings her OneRepublic’s “I Lived” and so they dance collectively. When she wakes up, she has a brand new conviction.
Within the traditional romcom transfer, Zoey and Mo rush to the airport to cease Max from leaving. Zoey is about to run as much as him and confess her love however she hears him singing “When a Man Loves a Lady” as he palms Rose her luggage. Heartbroken, Zoey leaves with out going as much as him. “It’s over,” she tells Mo.
With this, we start an finish of season wrap-up – Maggie decides to start relationship once more, Mo and Perry (and Perry’s youngsters) begin to work issues out, Tobin and Mackenzie keep collectively, Simon leads his new crew, and Emily, David and Miles are all doing effectively. Everybody appears to have found out what’s proper for them – apart from Zoey and Max.
Zoey sits alone on the park, taking part in together with her defend ring that she was given firstly of the season. Instantly, she hears a well-known voice behind her – it’s Max, come to inform her that he broke up with Rose on the airport. “She might inform I used to be distracted. Occupied with another person.” His coronary heart track was about Zoey, not Rose! They each confess their emotions for each other, and Zoey guarantees him that she gained’t be afraid or run away from her emotions anymore. Instantly…
With a shocked look on his face, Max hears Zoey singing and dancing to Fashionable English’s “I Soften With You,” coronary heart song-style. Did he and Zoey swap powers? Did he additionally acquire powers? Within the (ill-defined) logic of the present’s universe, this is senseless, however metaphorically this concept actually ties the season collectively. In season concerning the immense problem Zoey has opening as much as others, now that she has fashioned an in depth and intimate relationship, it does match thematically to wrap it up with somebody who can now perceive her inside emotions the best way she is aware of everybody else’s. How they’ll clarify this away within the universe is one other story totally – I doubt Max received any MRIs or encountered any psychics on the best way dwelling from the airport.
What an episode! Whereas, admittedly, season 2 was a step under the primary season in most methods, there may be nonetheless so clearly loads left for Zoey to provide. This finale merely couldn’t high final 12 months’s, but it surely got here fairly dang shut, and I see no points with retaining this storyline going. The present has disproven my best concern – that it had nothing to run on as soon as the unique grief storyline had ended. And now the love triangle (ugh) has been resolved, so season 3 (if we get one) must be clear skies from right here on out!
What did you consider “Zoey’s Extraordinary Goodbye?” How do you are feeling concerning the season’s ending? What would you need to see in season 3? Let me know within the feedback!
Zoey’s Extraordinary Quotes-Listing:
Zoey: I simply needed to let you recognize, I really haven’t informed anybody about you and I… apart from Mo. Oh! And my mother.
Simon: Wow, all proper. Properly perhaps it’s greatest that we preserve it that means, only for tonight? For them.
Zoey: Oh, yeah, yeah! I agree. Let’s not make tonight about us. For Max and Rose’s sake. Oh – there they’re! Wow, you guys look nice!
Max: Thanks!
Zoey: Simon and I broke up.
Zoey: Oh. Oh, oh – you don’t have to return with me.
Mo: Are you kidding me? I’ve been by way of all that different nonsense with you, I’m not lacking the perfect half!
Danny: Oh, did you run this by Zoey but?
Simon: Oh, as a result of she’s –
Danny: Your boss.
Simon: Oh, no, however she’ll be wonderful. She’s a really understanding and rational particular person.
(Cutaway)
Zoey: How are we gonna do that? Bomb menace? Drive onto the tarmac? Oh, are we gonna stuff some medicine into Rose’s backpack?
Max: Zoey…I feel you simply sang a coronary heart track to me.
Zoey and Max (collectively): …What…the… – (Finish of episode).