“Someone wants to buy my canoe!”
Wow. What a finale. What an ending. What a bromance.
I think we can say that most threads end on a note not of certainty, but of hope- because plot threads life never wrap up: life goes on until we die. So yes, Doug breaks up with Megan and returns to Elsa, and it looks like they’re intimate again- things look up, but we can’t be sure their marriage will survive. And Izzy, with her deprived and chaotic background and confusion about her sexuality, has the self-realisation to apologise to Casey. Their relationship looks hopeful, at least. And a nice chat with Evan means they part as friends- and it’s nice that, because of her, he’s getting somewhere in his life. Ironically, she accepts his advice which parallels hers to her long ago, and decided to push herself by trying for a sprint scholarship to UCLA. Even if she had to “drop the drama”. Like that’ll happen.
But the core of the episode is the race to find Zahid and stop him marrying Gretchen and jeopardising his future. It’s a fun adventure, interestingly involving Sam’s uni mate Abby- a more prominent character for the future? Gretchen turns out to have dumped him at the altar, and the reunion of the homies is touching. All is right with the world, to the point of Elvis blessing their refound homiedom and the two of them moving in together. It’s nice to see a close friendship being given the weight normally only given to a romance.
Things very much end on a high, with even Paige getting a better job and selling the canoe that symbolises her failure. It’s worrying that the series could potentially end here- let’s hope it doesn’t. This third season, after a slow start, has been easily as good as the first two. Top telly.
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