This week’s bottle episode is titled “Beard After Hours.” Its name is a reference to Martin Scorsese’s 1985 black comedy “ After Hours,” starring Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette. At the very least, there are more of us getting run over, narratively speaking. Just last episode, it seemed a little cruel to me that the showrunners required Sarah Niles (who plays Sharon Fieldstone) to learn to ride a bike for her part and then had her hit by a car.īut this seems crueler. Just a few book ended moments of Ted and Roy and Nate. No Rebecca, no Sam, no Keeley, no Higgins. And Nate was still on a psychological journey to the dark side that seems likely to soon turn him into the English Premier League’s Kylo Ren.Īnd this week? No reference whatsoever to any of those story lines. In that same episode, the mismatched lovers Rebecca and Sam apparently hooked up, a development that will presumably have significant consequences. Sharon Fieldstone have significant work to do - probably on her mental health as well as his. So … we waited through eight episodes for the revelation last week that finally gave this season a clear arc: Ted’s father committed suicide when he was 16, and he has definitely not figured out how to deal with it.
And now for something completely different.
