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May. 18th, 2019 10:47 pmI fell into watching Superstore by accident early in this season- NBC's website directed me to it after an episode of Brooklyn 9-9 and I had a half-hour free so I clicked. [Also I admit part of me watching it was hunting to see if Jonah danced (he does, episode 4x17).]
It's a sitcom about working at Walmart, and it's largely a very smart and funny one, balancing surrealism with realism as it tackles serious modern issues of class and power and race and politics alongside stories about all sorts of relationships, always keeping the jokes front and center in spite of its depth. At the beginning of the season, Todd VanDerWerff called it the Great American sitcom, not entirely facetiously.
But holy shit the season finale, by taking itself seriously, and working from the humor to the consequences of the humor, did a dramatic turn I'm not sure I've ever seen a sitcom pull off as effectively as Superstore just did.
It's a sitcom about working at Walmart, and it's largely a very smart and funny one, balancing surrealism with realism as it tackles serious modern issues of class and power and race and politics alongside stories about all sorts of relationships, always keeping the jokes front and center in spite of its depth. At the beginning of the season, Todd VanDerWerff called it the Great American sitcom, not entirely facetiously.
But holy shit the season finale, by taking itself seriously, and working from the humor to the consequences of the humor, did a dramatic turn I'm not sure I've ever seen a sitcom pull off as effectively as Superstore just did.