Community, seasons 5 and 6
Times I have given up on Community, a show that is A Lot for good and ill:
1. Original run: the season 4 episode set in "Pierce's mansion" which is clearly a lightly decorated version of the main community college set.
2. Original run: the season 5 "MeowMeow Beans" episode; also the weird G.I. Joe parody.
3. In 2020, desperate for literally anything to watch: probably somewhere around "Pillows and Blankets"
I would not have guessed that this show had it in itself to produce a relatively normal, much less good, final episode, but it did. The relatively younger adults are all set free to go and find themselves in the world, and the relatively older adults, all mostly friendless kind-of failures, find some others to understand and appreciate them. It's not happiness, but it's direction and stability. It could be worse.
(The comp for the last episode, for me, is the finale of You're the Worst, a show that was good for one season, okay for another, and then got and stayed kind of bad until somehow nailing the appropriate tone and content for an ending.)
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