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9/10
Disagree With The Bad Reviews - Loved It!
allurose26 December 2022
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I won't give this episode a 10/10 purely because I would agree that the musical bit was hit or miss (though I'm not a musical person, so if you are - watch it and form your own opinion!)

Having said that, the bad reviews for this episode seem biased on personal experiences. Don't like drugs? Cool, that doesn't mean the episode is bad. Sorry if they're not for you, and perhaps a warning at the start would have been nice, but I personally didn't see a problem with this. It's ayahuasca, not heroin lol.

We FINALLY get an answer as to why Alice's relationships never pan out; she's trying to fill the voice that Dana left when she passed in the original series. I think this could be true for anyone who has experienced the love of their life and felt very real. With Alice being my favorite character and someone I've always identified closely with, her scenes brought me to tears. I was so moved by her in this episode.

Sophie and Finley come to an end, and it's honestly for the best. Finley was way too co-dependent and needs to find a way to live her life for herself. Sophie needs to find herself and not the hero/fixer she thinks she is when she's in a relationship. This plot point paved that way for both of them and although it hurts, I'm happy to see the growth.

Shane didn't get a solid answer as so why she always blows everything in her life up, but she did come to an Aha! Moment and realized that Tess was right for her (and that she needed to do everything she could in order to earn back her trust.)

Please watch this episode and give it a fair chance. Form your own opinion - you may discover that it differs completely from mine or others'.
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10/10
Best episode of the season
lacylt25 December 2022
I loved it. It was funny and sad; plus, we get a moment most OG fans have been waiting for. It focuses on three character arcs which is great because sometimes it's too much in a tight space. We get great Alice and Shane moments plus something else.

I am not part of this bring back Tina and Bette protest that's going on. If you like the show, especially if you are an OG fan from back in the day, watch it for yourself and form your own opinion. Aside from Jenny bringing us into this world, it was never a show with a central character. It's about love, sex, and friendships.

My only complaint is that sailor song was stuck in my head for two days. Haha.
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1/10
This episode was a torture
balmatrouk26 December 2022
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No idea what did I just watched! In general I'm not a fan of Gen Q (big fan of the OG) but this season so far was actually a bit better than the previous two apart from this episode. Turing this episode to a musical was just a waste. You could easily skip this episode and not lose much of a plot. I suffered through the entire musical part and what happened in the musical did not make sense whatsoever and somehow all the characters figured out what they are doing in life from this weird fantasy. Shane and Alice always had the best friendship why would they ruined it but that weird interaction even if they were both high!! I would say the best thing that happened was Sophie and Finley breaking up even tho it was a stupid way to break up but it finally happened.

I'm pretty sure most people skipped most of this episde.
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Cliche and Harmful
meanyowen26 December 2022
Glorifies drug use as some fun, exciting, mind-opening experience when in reality it can cause permanent bodily harm and is not a substitute for therapy. The characters know this. The writers know this. The producers know this. The viewers know this. Everyone knows this, so why does this keep getting written into television shows? The answer is the writers couldn't think of any other excuse to film an irrelevant fantasy musical number with Shane as a sailor, which they wrongly assumed would be more entertaining than an actual well-written plot that takes place in the real world of the show.

This is a tired, cliché drug trip episode that is so over played out in television. It's a harmful trope that wasn't fun to watch the first 5000 times in 5000 other shows, and it's not any better in this one.
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1/10
This one is mostly a zero
moov_e_c_er28 December 2022
As a fan from original series to this reboot, the reboot has always been struggling for me. It's supposed to try to bring in more woke bull, types and such but that is where it absolutely fails. In this third season it started to really balance out again, has good character and story development with ups and downs with a little old school popping in. I started to love this show again as it was getting to what I wanted. Now with this musical episode it's like there was a stack of ideas that didn't work, they were all collected and thrown into the trash, and then someone took them out and said "musical" and then wrote this outright garbage. The songs are unbalanced. The choices of sailor, housewife tv show, and game show was another stack of garbage ideas. The only purpose of this episode is to try and shake things up for what I hope is later episodes and why sudden changes (instead of a development of character, development of plot, and natural progression of story). In short this episode is "we don't like the way it's going and we don't know how to move to the next level so now this episode throws out everything we were doing and now let's skip to the next part". I was happy but now I might not watch this show at all because I fear it's all going to do what original did: more woke bull, more new characters that only distract from the ones I want to watch, too many characters, teach the audience the new definitions and how there is a new definition of man and woman, and you might as well bring back Jenny and that stupid murder who dunit crap... I wish to refocus on the good stuff, a little old school, and not the new garbage it seems to be aiming for.
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1/10
WHYYYYY did they make a nonsense musical episode????????
volter-hagman10 April 2023
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Actually impressive how they somehow managed to make Dana look like cgi? They bring that beloved character back and they do her like that? What the actual ****?? Whoever did her make up must have either had a day or someone in post wanted to get fired because it looked like an ai from 10 years ago.

Making the token musical episode, like many other modern shows, is just sad. Oh so sad. There was no weight or credability to it. It was all like some plastic Alice made up cliche scenarios. And the old sitcom bit, Wandavision much? There was no reason to put any of it in the show.

Yikes yikes and yikes.
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