We open with George suffering from amnesia – the toll of
taking the souls of the living and watching them die is bothering her and she
can’t stop thinking about death. She does the insomnia work through the town,
hating everyone who is maliciously sleeping while she can’t (oh I’ve done that
a few times)
Everyone else was sleeping just fine – unfortunately – because Rube has called them in for a 1:00am meeting at the Waffle House. It’s time for their joyful self-assessment forms (which everyone complains about – Daisy tries to weasel out of it, Mason needs more drugs, Roxy glares at the waste of her time)
George’s wandering brings her to the Waffle House where
everyone is grumbling through their exams and is bemused why she’s not involved
and what people are actually doing. Rube grabs George and pulls her away and
gives her a wonderfully cryptic non-answer about why she’s not taking the test
in between talking about his desire to learn how to paint. George is almost
offended that she isn’t taking the test.
For some reason art and George whining leads to lots of
flashback clips about Rube and food. That’s the second lot of rather convoluted
flashback clips that have been shoe-horned into this episode.
Which is when we switch to Roxy doing her test and get a series of clips of her as well.
Which is when we switch to Roxy doing her test and get a series of clips of her as well.
Really? Really Dead
Like Me? A clip show? You are actually having a clip show? A clip show on
episode 12 of your first season? You don’t have enough material for a clip
show!
On to Daisy – and her clips. Really? Daisy hasn’t even
been in the show that long yet I get a clips recap? Mason’s recap follows
before George and Rube discuss art and, seeing a picture that looks like Daisy,
George corrects Rube’s opinion of her shallowness and tells him she thinks
Daisy is sad. Oh, and Mason and Daisy torment the poor waitress Kiffany for
test answers. She even offers to help Roxy. Rube also keeps focusing on a
couple eating in the Waffle House.
And George learns Rube has a job – a soul to Reap, that
morning, at her old house. George, naturally, freaks out a little while Rube
lays down the law – she cannot interfere. Rube tells her it’s not about her and
tells her she has a problem with rules (excuse me – one of her family could be
potentially about to die and he brings it down to a “problem with rules”? That’s
grossly off base for Rube). This convoluted segue leads us to a set of George
flashback clips.
George goes to stalk her house to see what’s going to happen – and we get a clip show of her and her mother. And of Reggie and her mother. And Rube joins a highly emotional George who admits that she can’t save whoever it is on the post it. She cries and asks why she can’t sleep and Rube tells her that she’s too close. And Rube reaps the milkman – which is a shame because he’s a really nice guy. George reflects that even not knowing him, it’s still hard.
In the Waffle House, the three reapers are all stuck on
the same question – “why are you here?” They must deal with it because they return and
Rube collects there answers.
We have some George emotion – which was well done – but it
wasn’t about any issue she hasn’t already covered; being too emotionally
attached to the people she’s Reaping. Hopefully this is going somewhere
The rest? Yeah, I’m not impressed. Most shows at least
have the decency to wait until season 3
before they waste my time with
a clips episode. Was there a writer’s strike or something during this? I am
unimpressed by these shenanigans.
