Season 3 Episode 12: Pandemonium

[sorchasilver]

Here's your reaction post for the season 3 finale, airing tonight in the US. Feel free to squee, yell, flail, discuss and speculate in the comments.

I'll be watching it when it hits Netflix here tomorrow (once I catch up with last week's ep, *cough*), so I'll join you when I can ;)

Comments

[author_by_night]

I just sent this in a Facebook message to a friend:

That moment when Joss Whedon dies and comes back to life as Michael Schur.

Other questions:

- How did Simone die? Also, will she and Chidi wonder why they're the only ones who worked at the same place? Although I guess if Eleanor's tormentor knew Eleanor...

- I really hope we don't get a contrived love triangle, because those irritate me. Knowing this show though, it'll somehow only last about two episodes.

- I am glad to see Simone back, though. I always wondered if there was more to her than met the eye. She was way too cool about Chidi dumping her for no apparent reason.

- Is the Judge just evil? Because I'm sorry, but... what Shawn did really was epic cheating. Of course, that's probably the whole point.

[yourlibrarian]

I get very impatient with love triangles too (which is why I'm glad they changed their minds about involving Tahani in one).

[littlestclouds]

Schur seems pretty steadfast about not doing a love triangle (x) so I'm keeping my fingers crossed:

So rest assured that even as Schur and his writers throw a very familiar wrench in the Eleanor and Chidi love story in Season 3, it won’t wind up being something audiences have seen before. The sitcom introduced Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Simone, Chidi’s extraordinarily likable co-worker and new love interest. Even audiences rooting hard for Chidi and Eleanor to connect will have a hard time disliking her. But despite its familiarity, Schur says this new dynamic won’t develop into a worn-out love triangle audiences have seen again and again.

“I personally hate, more than anything, stories in which women fight over men,” Schur says. “I think it’s the single most retrogressive, sexist, and frankly boring trope in the history of television. We were very careful to design a scenario with Eleanor and Simone where the point was never, not once, not for one second, jealousy or ‘how dare you—that’s my man,’ or any of that boring old crap that people have been doing in a very sort of like reductive way for decades. There’s no reason Simone and Eleanor shouldn’t be friends. There’s no reason Eleanor and Tahani shouldn’t be friends. Like we just sort of like wipe the slate clean with all that stuff, and as a result, I think we are telling more interesting stories than we would have been if we had just kept everything going the same way.”