![]() ![]() He’s since courted Erica, who’s now, naturally, spitting venom at Carol. Other Phil’s sights are suddenly on her since before they parted ways the two of them were very much an item. Carol’s “mole” status feels even more contrived due to the way it clunkily antagonizes her for the sake of an obstacle. It’s a little too sitcom-y and Three’s Company for a show of this caliber and dimension, but it doesn’t meander at least. That’s why when Phil’s brother inevitably returns and Phil is given someone back, while everyone else is losing, it should make for a very interesting karmic development when we get to that point.Īlso, isn’t it crazy how much mileage the show got out of Will Ferrell by simply having photos of him peppered throughout the episode? I had to keep reminding myself that we never saw additional footage of Gordon from what we got last week yet it really does feel like we’ve gotten to see a good deal of the character by the clever coverage they apply.Ĭarol playing coy and hiding the fact that she’s still with Phil isn’t my favorite direction for the show to be going in. Just heaps and piles,” as Carol elegantly puts it). It wants us to be laughing hard, but also never to forget the dire situation and extreme loss that all of these people have faced (“Oodles and kaboodles of death. The opening scene is a great breakdown of the series as a whole as the show consistently plays seesaw with the extremes of the emotional scale. Todd struggles to get through his moving gesture of song at the ceremony, while everyone else is brought to tears as Carol continues to tug at her metaphorical collar. This is the funeral for someone that they all (particularly Gail, considering he was her lover) seemed to have very much grown to love in the few months that they got to know him. Make no mistake, it is a very funny scene, but for Melissa, Gail, Erica, Other Phil and the rest of these Malibuians, it’s also a deeply sad one.
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