Season 4 Episode 05: Employee of the Bearimy

[enemyofperfect]

Getting ahead of things for once, have a reaction post!

I might be able to watch tonight's episode when it airs, but please go ahead and get as spoilery as you like in the comments in any case -- I'll set aside all the notification emails until I'm caught up, I promise.

I look forward to everyone's commentary!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I was rather surprised that the episode took the opportunity to present conflict between Eleanor and Tahani rather than sisterhood as well, especially since Michael and Jason did do some bonding in their way. One thing it also set up by doing so is that Michael and Eleanor are leaders since each one was managing the others as well as trying to solve a problem.

In a way, I saw Tahani's complaint as the writers hanging a lantern on how they really haven't developed her the way they have the other characters. Because up until this season I'd say that Jason was also underdeveloped but so far we've seen him really coming into his own in the last episodes. So far that hasn't happened much for her, so I'm hoping this will change.

[erinptah]

I definitely felt like they were lampshading the fact that Tahani hasn't had anything to do this season, but with a whole episode to go, they could've just...given her something to do :(

And yeah, Jason's getting some good material, at least.