DispatchesFromElsewhere concluded with a very meta, very personal episode; keeneTV unpacks the show's final, mind-bending hour:
has been a rare gem amid the recent TV landscape. It’s earnestly sincere and sweet, following four broken people who are thrown together to play a strange game about two warring creative factions, the Jejune Institute and the Elsewhere Society. Like its spiritual cousinwas never about the mystery so much as the connections among its four leads.
That, of course, ties back in to the series’ first episode where Octavio tells us that Peter is us, and that later, Simone, Janice, and Fredwynn are also us. There are some caveats to each, but essentially, the understanding is that there are universal aspects to every character that will somehow resonate with us. When Octavio tells Peter, in a pre-recorded message, that he’s “special,” it makes him cry.
Here, and elsewhere, are flickers of inspiration that lead character-Jason to spend four months writing, which Simone reads and gives notes on—including the need for him to take responsibility. His clown-faced-boy past says the same: “You’re 40 years old, and this manchild victim shit has to end!” There is a lot of catharsis here, and so much that Segal seems to have personally poured into the character, the episode, and the series overall . And yet, it’s entirely relatable.
Janice tells Jason that he’s not unique, and what makes him special is not that he’s different, but that he’s the same. “The only thing we need to know at any given time is what to do next,” Janice/the game tells Jason. It’s a variant of being in the moment, of taking things one day at a time. And it’s good advice.’ penultimate episode was, then, the true finale for its characters. But this, “The Boy,” is the finale for us.
This episode, and these last moments in particular, will be polarizing. Everything about the show, and the game, from the start though had this kind of meta tinge to it, so that’s not necessarily a stretch . And there’s something satisfyingly tongue-in-cheek about Segel acknowledging the tropes of TV series and finales in particular, giving everything an intimate, homespun feel inline with the series’ overall aesthetic.
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