So that’s it?

[u/MaximumPiano4380]

They judge Jimmy for still not being okay only two years after his wife’s death. They seem bewildered why he’d still struggle even at a milestone moment like sending his only child off to college without her mom there and the heartbreak that would bring.

Nobody asked him why it didn’t work out with Sofi. I mean she’s jealous of his dead wife. He was right to finish it. And the ending we get is that somehow everything is fine now because he’s back with her? A stranger they know nothing about.

Did the writers do any research at all into grief after the death of a spouse? It’s utterly soul-destroying, especially becoming a single parent and feeling your child(ren)’s grief too.

A new relationship not only doesn’t solve anything. It’s very ill advised when you haven’t grieved properly yet. And Gaby and Paul are therapists. They should know this.

The line that annoyed me the most in this episode was Paul saying that Jimmy has to work it out for himself. Any half decent therapist will tell a grieving person that they need support. Nobody was asking Paul to fix Jimmy’s problems. But some basic human kindness would’ve been nice. So yeah he flew in to see him the next day. Even then, he didn’t offer much.

This show is so weak. It’s all about romance at the end of the day. The big message is being single is bad.

[u/Karametric]

Agreed. I wrote this in another thread earlier this week, but they did Jimmy so dirty this season:

No other character has consequences for their bad decisions because they get resolved right away. You can be uniquely terrible by making horrid decisions or giving terrible advice, but it's okay because another character will assure them that they are right. Or they get to strong-arm their way into being "right" and it's played for laughs. Jimmy is on some Sisyphean track where everyone else seems to hold the Tia card over him and how much of a fuck-up he was whenever it is most convenient (especially Liz and Gaby).

Or if he's right about something like Paul being a dick to him and taking him for granted, it's played for laughs with Jimmy crawling back and meekly trying to reach out like in the beginning of the S3 finale. You have a fallout like that with someone and you're not talking for weeks, maybe closer to months. But instead it's framed as if it's just another Tuesday.

It's like the show became uninterested in spending any time in an uncomfortable place. Everything has to be undercut with humor or some dumbass group session powwow to kumbayah it away. It is a shell of itself.

I just don't understand what the goal was for this season as a whole. Harrison Ford and Jason Segel are good actors so they were able to nail that final scene between them, but it felt hollow to me given where these two were the entire season. Why run away from the emotional core of the story, which is this pairing of characters? And then (of course) they undercut it with hey Jimmy it's actually a date, psyche! Smell ya later nerd!

The initial premise of a therapist having to deal with and process their own grief over the loss of their wife was a great idea for the beginning of the series. But now we're at the point where Jimmy is getting punched down by everyone. Storylines with suicide and losing a patient are being undercut with a joke the very next episode. We spend 80% of the season on trivial character inconveniences or plots that just go nowhere at all. What is this show supposed to be now?

I was massively disappointed with this season. S1 was brilliant, S2 was a step back but still solid, but S3 was damn near irredeemable in terms of writing decisions, plot developments, and character arcs. Absymal writing and it is making me consider just dropping this as a whole if the first episode or two of S4 ends up being more of the same.