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Halfway through the season Dwight Schrute -along with Jim Halpert Stanley Hudson Ryan Howard Erin Hannon and Cathy -travel to Florida to help set up a Sabre Store where Nellie Bertram is introduced. Andy abandoning Kyle at this point in their trip is a choice that seems designed to give her a last-second heroic moment when she’s least expected next week, not a natural thing for someone to do to their foster sister.The eighth season largely centers around Andy Bernard's ascension to regional manager as well as the antics of Robert California the new CEO of Sabre a fictional printer company that owns Dunder Mifflin. While their undercover Chucky assassination mission last week was useful for getting newcomers oriented to what these characters are all about, their scene here felt far more like pure finale setup. Like last week, Chucky checks in on Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) and Kyle (Christine Elise)’s journey to Hackensack. “Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss” fumbles its use of legacy characters in both the present day and flashback. The relationship is beginning to feel redundant to the incoming Alex and Kyle, whose goals are seemingly the same.
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They’re both on the same page that Chucky’s plan, whatever it may be, has to be stopped at all costs. Arthur and Lind’s chemistry and banter is still fun, but there’s no conflict between the two. Jake and Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) aren’t in a much better place, with both seeming to be finished with their own development as characters. Not only does focusing so much on Junior’s loss shortchange Devon of good emotional material, it also just feels strange that no one’s talking about Kim, a detective investigating a string of murders, being murdered herself. But that’s for next week - in the here and now, I’m more disappointed in how the loss of Devon’s mother is treated as an afterthought. Chucky’s soul-splitting voodoo and to what ends it’s being used for remain one of the more exciting mysteries of the show, and the image of the platoon of Chuckies all turning their heads to the kidnapped Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) allows for some ambitious ideas to be in play. And ending with Junior and Chucky singing “We Got the Beat” just felt right, as the show usually does when leaning hard into the bizarre.Ĭhucky’s malign influence is raising much more interesting questions across town in his childhood home, which Tiffany is using as a staging ground for some kind of Good Guy doll army. Logan’s death scene is brutal and well-shot. Chucky has had a lot of fun exploring the negativities the Good Guy doll can represent to each character for Junior, it seems it may be something as dull and blunt as a weapon to beat his jerk dad to death with after that last straw breaks. But lately, it’s felt like the show has actively worked to keep Junior totally isolated so that we’d buy it when he snapped. Junior was always a foil to that and, after being cast aside like clockwork, has fallen victim to the same way of thinking. Put under immense pressure by his father, ignored by his girlfriend, convinced Jake has it out for him, Junior’s been a ticking time bomb all season.Įarly on, Jake was framed as an outsider that Chucky could exploit, until he connected with other people and insulated himself from the killer doll. Junior’s descent into madness has been a long time coming, but his heel turn still feels forced. That process involves sucker-punching Jake (Zackary Arthur) and suspecting his dad of having an affair with Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) after she shows up to Bree’s funeral and kisses him (classic Tiff). With two main characters having a dead mom to cope with, Chucky devotes more time to Junior’s (Teo Briones) grieving process. But aside from pushing one character past their point of no return, “Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss” feels like Chucky stalling. Last week’s frantically paced “Cape Queer” had a lot of paradigms to shift, so “Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss” slows things down to build some tension for the finale.
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Two murdered moms mark quite the place to start an episode of TV, but this is Chucky, and we deal with dead parents on a regular basis here.