While it
has a few issues, this is, on the whole, a hilarious episode. Tons of great jokes, sequences, and bits, and
some top-notch comedy from Andrew Rannells.
Things are heating up now!
Can’t get
too much into specifics, as pretty much all the plots are reactions to stuff
that happened last week. Suffice it to
say, Blair and Tiff’s wedding is getting closer, and with both parties wavering,
Mo and Dawn are working overtime to keep those two crazy kids together. While Dawn gets more than she bargained for
at Tiff’s bachelorette party, Mo plans a wild night for Blair that gets wilder
than even he expected. Meanwhile, Keith
finds himself in a tight spot and tries to gain the upper hand.
The
timeline stuff is still bugging me a little.
Two major plots have basically been put on pause since the last episode
(which took place almost two months ago,) and another is kind of getting lost
in the shuffle of the time jumps. For
the sake of spoilers, I won’t get into the details, but while we’ve been
getting bits of this latter storyline in short bursts, I’m still not sure how
much is exactly going on with it – if what we see is really all there is to
see, or if it’s an ongoing situation.
It
doesn’t bother me as much here as it did last week, though. In part, it’s not as pronounced, and what’s
more, this episode is just outright funnier, which makes me more
forgiving. As I said in episode 4,
putting Dawn and Tiff in the same room pretty much automatically leads to gold,
and they have some great scenes here.
There’s some spectacular banter on 16
Candles (with a great callback from Mo later!), featuring headwear adorned
with phalluses.
And Mo
and Blair are just awesomely funny! Everything these two get up to is hilarious,
from Mo’s policy of never apologizing to white people (“Why? Because Sting won all those Grammys instead
of Thriller?”) to their argument
about how much lessons from The A-Team
should be applied to real life, and beyond.
It’s getting down to the wire for Mo, and, with plates wobbling in the
air, he doubles down on the scheming and manipulation in a bid to stay afloat
until he crosses the finish line.
I thought
Andrew Rannells was hilarious last week, but he might be even funnier
here. The man is just a comedic
treasure. Blair has had it up to here
with basically everything, and it shows big time. His blasé reactions to some truly insane
goings-on are amazing, and I like watching him vacillate between irritated,
unimpressed, terrified, and pumped.
Rannells’s back-and-forth with Don Cheadle is so good; they’re two
actors I wouldn’t have pictured playing off each other, but they’re just gold
together.
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