Man Seeking Woman– Another good season., I liked it a lot After following around Josh for two seasons as he bounced into a relationship and out of one, season 3 changed the perspective to what happens in a long-term relationship. Smart move as this gave a lot of chances for the people around Josh to change with him. His girlfriend Lucy obviously gets the lion’s share of time with Josh but the show how she deals with it too. Friendship dynamics changing (and peer pressure), meeting parents for the first time, realizing you’re in a long relationship and wondering about the future with this person, the pressure of proposing…there is a lot of pressure to navigate. The show is expanding beyond Josh (I’ve always liked how they give his sister a solo episode each year) in great ways and next season is going to offer all new ground as well. They cast this show really well too, it’s always fun to see what they’re going to do next. Looking forward to next season.
It’ Always Sunny in Philadelphia– Ten seasons is a crazy milestone for a show and this year was one of the best. That’s almost more impressive. I don’t think there was a bad episode this year and often they’re really smart episodes. Super happy to see some major character milestones in the last half of the season. While they wisely left some old material behind some time ago (Charlie and The Waitress) or glance off old material here and there (Mac being in the closet) they finally took these two long time Always Sunny beats and moved them forward. Mac’s episode in particular was insanely funny. Cricket got a great piece too! In a great bit of story telling, he was in one episode as a cameo and then went back an episode or two later to show what he was doing that day. Hell, they even had a cliffhanger finale! I hope they can keep up the creativity for the next season, this run was a blast.