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5.6 Lotto Fever Marsha: "You're not a millionaire, Boyd. You're a mailman with a mental condition." Cue the "going postal" jokes. Johnny has been kidnapped before. I don't mind story repetition when it's done well. This wasn't done well. I mean, here we have this guy, Boyd Lumely, the postal worker. Lumely, quite irrationally, blamed Johnny for poor decisions that Lumely made all on his lonesome. Lumely committed a felony by kidnapping Johnny at gunpoint, and risked Johnny's life in order to fix his own problems. And in the end, the two of them were shooting the breeze together like all of it was a mild fraternity prank. I don't know. I'd be thinking restraining order at the very least, and five to ten in Sing Sing at the most. With plots like this, it's easy to see what's coming. You know they're going to get caught in difficult situations, but everything will work out in the end. What you need to do is (1) make the characters very likeable, and (2) add in a few surprises. Maybe it would have worked if Lumely had been more likeable, and I had really cared that he was planning to off himself for the insurance. But no. Frankly, I just wanted to smack him. He won the lottery, and just frittered all the money away. And then he blamed everyone else for what he did. Grow up, buddy. The scenes I liked the most were Johnny's inept attempts to win at poker. I also really liked the early scene where Johnny found out lots of different things about Lumely by touching each of his keys. But that was it. Bits and pieces: -- Wow. Sarah exists. At least for a couple of minutes on the phone, anyway. -- They just happened to end up at Lumely's daughter's school for the midnight whatever. Yes, that's when they usually have grade school events: midnight. -- Anthony Michael Hall looked fabulous in a black tux. -- No Bruce in this episode. I just didn't like it. And I'm getting discouraged about season five. Two stars, Billie |
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