The "Superstore" series finale was perfect but bittersweet
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God, I’m gonna miss Superstore so much.
The NBC sitcom said goodbye last week after six excellent seasons, and the TV landscape is going to have a significant gap without it. There are so few sitcoms that focus on blue collar workers, let alone one that covers topics like unions, immigration, and labour rights, all while landing joke after joke and incorporating a ton of heart.
Superstore had to rush towards its conclusion a little this season, as NBC announced its cancellation and reduced its season episode count to 15. So plot points like Jonah dating Maria Thayer were quickly done away with, Dina’s breakup with her boyfriend Brian came about sorta suddenly, all so they could wrap things up in a neat little package.
And you know what? Great! Because the finale episode was the perfect wish fulfillment episode. Amy returns to first try to help the store not be shut down by their parent company, and when that mostly flops, she returns to work the floor on the store’s last day. She apologizes to Jonah for breaking up with him, and after a bit of waffling on his part, they kiss and get back together. Dina and Garrett finally get together for real, and while Glenn initially thinks he’s going to retire, he decides to reopen his dad’s hardware store (and hires Mateo and Cheyenne in the process). And in a montage of the future, Amy and Jonah are married and have had another kid together, Jonah’s running for city council, Dina and Sandra are working together, running the Zefra warehouse, and the whole team stays in each other’s lives — yes, even Carol. (Oh, and let’s not forget that it’s revealed that Elias is the one who’s been leaving severed feet in the store!!! A quick but excellent payoff to that runner.)
A little pat? Sure. But I do not care in the least, because I’ve grown to love all of these characters and I want to see them happy and doing well. And I think the writers knew that’s what all of us wanted to see, too.
I really hope to see the cast in more things — with a special shoutout to Kaliko Kauahi, who was just so, so great as Sandra. The entire ensemble cast was amazing, though, and the show did a really good job of giving each of them their own personalities and backstories.
As I’ve written about before, Superstore has been one of my main comfort shows during the pandemic, and this final season was no different. It’s a brilliant show that I’m going to miss a lot, and I really hope we can get more funny, sweet, poignant sitcoms like it in the future.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go binge all the episodes from the beginning again.
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