Welp, last night was the end of the seasons for 30 Rock and Community. I’ll now be able to watch TV lying down, not taking notes, and not constantly shushing my husband, on Thursday evenings. And you’ll all go back to glaring at the fancy cable show recaps, wishing you’d picked a different major and could afford cable. It will suck to be us soon enough again. But last night, with these finales, we poors were given something beautiful.
30 Rock
Avery and Jack decide to renew their vows following Avery’s return from North Korea. (Vow renewals a cheap trick reality shows pull for ratings. Can’t hurt for 30 Rock to try, too!) Then Jack learns that Avery has fallen into a fingertapping romance with her co-captor. Liz and Criss inch closer to having a plant/baby together. Jenna is still out to get Mabel—“Can’t hack it in the big city? Gonna move to the bay area now and pretend that was your dream the whole time? Have fun always carrying a light sweater!” Kenneth and Hazel (ew) kiss, and then he finds out that Hazel sabotaged his page application. Tracy learns about racism and black role models from a guy who is not Questlove.
We’re perfectly set up for next season, the show’s last. Liz will finally get her kid, which she could not have done earlier in the series because the writers knew that babies ruin grown-up shows. Jack will be single again and we’ll wonder if he’s gonna hook back up with Avery’s mom, maybe rekindle things with Nancy Donovan, or pull a Don Draper and marry a hot 20-something? Kenneth will come back into the page program. The only people I’m not sure about are Tracy and Jenna. They'll be insane narcissists, I guess? I’ll miss this show but I’m happy with this season, and I think it’s going to wrap up in a graceful and timely manner next year.
P.S. Happy birthday, Tina Fey! I got you something. It’s a hastily written blog post that’s mostly about a different show. Hope you like it.
Community
And then there's this. The 90-minute three-parter was almost more than I could handle. In the first episode, “Digital Estate Planning,” the study group is transformed into adorable 8-bit video game characters, causing me to say, out loud, “Oh Jesus Christ, you guys.” Because it was so cool.
These guys really know how to sink their poorly-rated talons into our prematurely-nostalgic demographic, don’t they? The episode doesn’t exactly fit into the bigger story arcs of the spring, but it doesn’t matter. The bit with Annie and Shirley committing a double homicide—LOL, right?! And Britta finding a home in a witch lair and being NOT the worst at making potions. And especially this: