Post by Boink on Sept 27, 2018 10:11:09 GMT -5
In spite of Cybill's wonderful performance here, I am NOT a fan of this so-called "Wonderful Job" and consider it to be, by far, the low point in what I have coined, "The Atomic/Wonderful/Poop Trilogy." Like the episodes immediately preceding and following it, this one seems to belong in its own alternate universe, but for the uniquely unpleasant reason that it's just way too far off the rails in terms of where the characters were emotionally at this point in the series.
EVERYONE is just way too hard on Maddie, and even David is coldly and uncharacteristically disconnected from her feelings in a manner that feels contrived.
As for Maddie herself, I find it particularly off-putting that her first reaction to the idea of losing Blue Moon and her entire history with David (everything we as an audience have invested in thus far) is one of sheer delight. Having grown consistently closer to him since the day they first met, with their bond spoken of in "All Creatures" and demonstrated in "Mulberry Street" (the previous two episodes in the "true" Blue Mooniverse*) more than ever, I just can't accept it, even from a fantasy perspective. Only hitching a ride with herself on the fast-track to suicide seems to fully turn Maddie around, and when she ends up kissing David on the desk, the moment is treated as nothing more than an immediately forgotten punchline to an unfunny joke (which, in my estimation, is about what this episode amounts to).
Sorry. It just didn't work for me.
*I briefly thought that I had oh-so cleverly invented "mooniverse" in reference to Moonlighting until, out of curiosity, I found here that it also means something Maddie and David had largely avoided up to this point in the series: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mooniverse
EVERYONE is just way too hard on Maddie, and even David is coldly and uncharacteristically disconnected from her feelings in a manner that feels contrived.
As for Maddie herself, I find it particularly off-putting that her first reaction to the idea of losing Blue Moon and her entire history with David (everything we as an audience have invested in thus far) is one of sheer delight. Having grown consistently closer to him since the day they first met, with their bond spoken of in "All Creatures" and demonstrated in "Mulberry Street" (the previous two episodes in the "true" Blue Mooniverse*) more than ever, I just can't accept it, even from a fantasy perspective. Only hitching a ride with herself on the fast-track to suicide seems to fully turn Maddie around, and when she ends up kissing David on the desk, the moment is treated as nothing more than an immediately forgotten punchline to an unfunny joke (which, in my estimation, is about what this episode amounts to).
Sorry. It just didn't work for me.
*I briefly thought that I had oh-so cleverly invented "mooniverse" in reference to Moonlighting until, out of curiosity, I found here that it also means something Maddie and David had largely avoided up to this point in the series: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mooniverse