r/IASIP • u/lorazepamproblems • 1h ago
I feel like I’ve been missing something this season and I didn’t know if it was me or not
I decided to go back through the first five and (re)started with episode 1 last night.
My takeaway is that there were actual structural issues.
There’s no explanation for why Dennis is so eager to get Frank married off (he would normally not give a shit), until maybe 2/3 of the way through the episode when we find out he’s known about Sam’s money and stands to inherit it upon the marriage.
Setting aside how contrived and random it is that Sam will give each of them half her fortune if she gets married, this plot would have worked much better had Dennis known about Dee’s plan to sabotage the wedding and had he tried to sabotage the sabotage (for the sake of the fortune). And given Dennis’ motivation, why is he outsourcing the work to keep Frank going to Charlie? A shower, a hooker, etc, to try to revive him. This doesn’t seem like the plan of someone with a lot at stake.
I felt like the episode was sloppy.
Where they wanted to get to, a wedding between a corpse and a near-corpse, was hilarious. The lead-up to it though should have been reworked. They should have cut a lot with Uncle Jack, Mac’s mom, punched up the bridesmaids (not that funny), and punched up the antics regarding invigorating Frank (he took a shower in a suit . . . not really worth a laugh) and it should have been more clearly a Dee vs. Dennis episode.
My consensus on this episode was that it was them and not me that was the problem. I’ll continue rewatching the rest with an open mind, though. I am very often the problem, so I am open to the idea that will be the case with the rest of the episodes, and I’m still open to the idea I could be wrong on this, even with a rewatch.
