This episode’s title, The Replacement, pretty much says it all. The episode kicks off with the until-now absent Galvin walking on a deserted island in an effort to help find Macy a cure for her dark side. He finds a mysterious glowing artefact and takes it with him, however on his way back, a dark shadow attacks him. Meanwhile, the
Read moreThis episode did the rare thing of picking up right where the previous episode left off. The family (sans Maya) get together to help JJ make his submission film for NYU. His submission film is “Wheelchair Planet”, which is, according to JJ, a Twilight Zone-like film that is dumb but shows good technique, and is about a world where everyone
Read moreThis episode revolves around a DiMeo family game night. The episode kicks off with JJ coming home from a date with Izzy and Maya immediately bombarding him with a PowerPoint presentation on the fact that she hasn’t met Izzy. JJ agrees to let Maya meet her and sets up a game night. The A story revolves around the game night
Read moreThe job of a pilot is to establish the show’s premise and characters. I feel that this pilot did half the job. This shows premise or rather its titular character was summarised in one sentence: “Mr. Black moves in with his daughter Angela and her boyfriend Fin to receive extra care. Mr. Black joyfully sets about psychologically dismantling Fin in
Read moreThis episode was the season’s Valentine’s Day episode. The episode kicks off with JJ and Izzy planning their Valentine’s Day at school and discovering that Maya is cyber stalking Izzy’s social media accounts. JJ rushes home via his wheelchair’s “stop mom” mode. The episode than goes into it’s usual A, B and C stories format. The A story revolves around
Read moreThis episode showed a lot of character development. The A story revolves around Maya and Melanie progressing with building their business by broadcasting a television ad and attending the 2019 Abilities Expo—a convention for vendors with accessible products. However their excitement about their progress quickly disintegrates when they realise that they have feuded with pretty much everyone in attendance. This
Read moreThe episode kicks off with Maya and Dylan at Lafayette attending a mother-daughter morning tea, where they notice the clearly unhealthy dynamics between many mothers and daughters, including Dr Miller and her own mother. Maya and Dylan brag to each other about how great their dynamic is, however the moment is ruined for Dylan when Maya tells her that she
Read moreThis episode kicks off with establishing why this episode was given its title. The cold open establishes that Kenneth and Joyce had some sort of fling due to Kenneth’s hyper-sexualised greeting of ‘Hey, You’ to Joyce. When the family point out how creepy it is to Kenneth, he tells them it’s his way of giving a nod to a good
Read moreI felt that this episode focused on the importance of honesty and also provided many meanings to the term roll/role model. The episode kicks off with JJ and Kenneth shopping in a rival grocery store of the store Kenneth works at, at Maya’s request. They run into Maya who tells JJ about a young boy, Owen, with cerebral palsy, and
Read moreThis episode kicks off on a hilarious note with Maya thinking the family is holding a meeting but to her horror discovers it is an intervention for her. Jimmy reveals that USC called to schedule an interview for JJ and then called back to schedule an interview for Maya. Jimmy firmly tells her that she is not following JJ to
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