If not through a relationship, I’d love to see Penny find happiness in some way. The poor, unfortunate Penny has been through so much heartbreak, this year especially what with her self-loathing despair following her breakup with Pete. But I’d like to see them start a family - the pair is tailor made to raise a child.Īnd Penny. No advancement yet there, as Happy Endings is perhaps pathologically phobic when it comes to shark jumping (no changes… ever). And it took that realization to come to terms with how much, in fact, all of these characters mean to me.īack when we first meet Brad and Jane, they were discussing the possibility of having a baby. It took this possibly eternal breakup for me to realize how much their staying together meant to me. That’s what I, and so many of us, want for Dave and Alex. And those two, no matter how wrong they might have been for each other, ended up together. A long, torturous, misguided love affair is all we need from Dave and Alex. Season 2 ended with Dave and Alex back together, so I can only assume that the show’s plan has been to wrap each season with a new update for the central couple. Just because, hey, we’ve gotta do something to cap this year. I’m sad that it seems to have not worked out, and for no particular reason. As such, I’m not validated by their separation, and not too comforted by their decision to stay friends. While the couple doesn’t exactly have a perfect track record, the reveal seemed to come out of nowhere - a cliffhanger for cliffhanger’s sake. But if not, then this is what we’re left with: Dave and Alex broken up forever.Īnd while I still do firmly believe that Happy Endings is pretty much all for the jokes, I’m not sure I want to live in a world where there’s no shot of a Rose-Kerkovich future. And if a Season 4 does amount, there’s a large possibility we’ll see them back in each other’s arms at one point or another. Their relationship throughout Season 3 has exhibited some bumps and some sweet moments alike. Subsequent twists and turns had them reconnect, decide against a union, and then wind up together again. The pilot tore this lifelong couple apart. Now, if this were a simple season finale, I’d have hope. The double header introduced the ill-fated plan of Dave and Penny’s still-dating parents (Michael McKean and Megan Mullally) to adopt a baby it created a new character, Jane and Alex’s controlling older sister (Stephanie March), fully acknowledging the peculiarity in her never having been mentioned before it had Max wearing a headband and, most importantly, it broke up Dave and Alex. This week’s episode of Happy Endings, tragically, might well be our final farewell to the Chicago clan. Happy Endings might tout itself, in title, a show working up to an ultimate romantic explosion, but it is really the joke-paved path that we sign on for. This show has forgone the manipulation of audiences’ sap centers in favor of nonstop comedy. There wasn’t much meat to Penny’s unrequited affections for Dave never a good deal of intrigue in any turns taken by Jane and Brad’s relationship. Although we might love spending time with the sextet week in and week out, we never really seemed to give much of a damn if the goateed V-neck addict and the flighty, rib-scarfing half pint would actually end up together in the end. Although a riff on the likes of Friends and Cheers and Suddenly susan and all the will-they-won’t-theys of the sitcom history books with its Dave and Alex throughline, the emotional investment in these two characters’ union has been tepid at best. Happy Endings has never really been about… well, anything.
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