This show was basically ignored to death.
I really enjoyed this show. It wasn't the best show ever, but I liked the stories and I liked the characters. It was stultifying to see Fox push this off the Thursday night schedule in order to make room for more American Idol, etc. I can't stand those shows. "The Boy With the Bucket", the season (now series) finale was the best episode by far. It was filled with the most sentiment since "The Conversation", the episode that referred back to Leo's daughter's birthday present. (The emotional energy of that episode was stretched a bit thin, but Leo's character had the strength to pull it through for me...) In "The Boy With the Bucket" we got to meet Walter's brother and parents, and many a tear was shed. It brought everything to a wonderful head and blew almost everyone's world apart, leaving Leo to be Leo - either the old Leo or the new Leo, either to try to pick up the pieces and make sense out of what happened and help get Walter out of the hole, or move on with his life and be callous and firm. I get it that this show was not high brow and that it was uneven and unashamed to bring in the most spectacular absurdities. It had wonderful potential, and the series finale, "The Boy With the Bucket", showed how enjoyable an episode could be when it rose to meet that potential. The choice to use "Is it like today?", one of my favorite songs, for the soundtrack over scenes of Willa hitch hiking and trying to escape Shad nicely summed up the mood of the episode and now sadly, the series. (you can easily find the lyrics on the web - lyricstime.com/world-party-is-it-like-today- lyrics.html)score 7/10
dst-thomas 12 May 2012
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