I'm not going to be the person who is going to give ultimate low score only because a character I hate got focus and a "fav" is nowhere to be seen. This episode was bad, but not that awfully bad, just by focusing on secondary characters.
I'm going to be fair.
The only good scenes on this episode were the ones with the main cast (mostly in the beginning and the ending).
So basically:
- The firefighter action in the beginning
- Harry taking the first step to move on from his trauma
- Harry and Lou bonding
- Notice how the latest 2 points are me stretching a single scene from the ending in part
- Lou (I actually want to se more of him)
- Grant-Nash family finally reunited after the Jeffrey trauma
- Chimney surprise appearance
- Karen and Hen (although I don't particularly like how they recycled the Eva story line again, it felt a bit out of nowhere)
With the positive point said, my general thoughts about this episode are all about how the staff behind this show obviously need to work out the communication between their departments (Marketing mostly) because nothing from the promo was on the ep, heck barely the main characters were on it, LOL, They got as ghosted as the ghost roommate call.
Now let me be honest, I don't mind other secondary characters such as David (in next ep) Lou or (even) Taylor getting the a spotlight, if it is for the plot to move on and make the show better. The thing is: this ep didn't feel like that. We got a single call, then the focus shifted to secondary characters who kept going in circles for 40 minutes until suddenly the episode had to be over.
Now, I can see Lou bonding with Harry as a positive thing for the plot since it helped Harry to move on from his trauma in some extent, but this wasn't in Lou story-line focus, it was Harry's. Now I can only hope this Taylor story line is the writers giving a last screen-time to build up the character leaving, because there is not much explanation on why they did a morning news journalist reporter play detective.