You know, I don't even remember the A plot of that episode, but the B plot, which I haven't watched in years, is one of my fictional touchstones. Everything you say about representation, of course, but more than that. It was so genuine, so real -- and during the most saccharine season of a show with a tendency to the saccharin. Long before I lost my own dad, that plot of complicated feelings -- complicated about grief, and about religion, and about loved ones -- rung very true to me.
It probably helped that they cast Theo Bikel, of course. 😂
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Date: 2020-08-21 02:10 am (UTC)It probably helped that they cast Theo Bikel, of course. 😂