Marry Me is finally showing its fangs! This episode delivers the greatest strengths of the show in a single half hour and it enhances them by a very well executed bottle episode with fun flashbacks, amazing one punch liners, perfectly timed fast pace and crazy gags common on the golden age of Happy Endings (seasons 2 and 3). This episode just showcased how great the show can be and it makes the fact that its rating are so low all the more devastating.
I can understand why people could be initially reluctant to get into the series, but this episode proves one single thing: if you are not watching you are missing out the best comedy series of this fall.
The premise is simple: Jake and Annie are celebrating their date-anniversary, but so far every single one has been hell as something has happened to ruin them, and as such they are treated as a curse, called “Annicurse”, and the gang goes through one of those cursed evenings.
The cursed anniversary is explored ground on comedy, but Marry Me executes it extremely well.
The thing is, there is a tornado during this episode that forces the gang to be trapped inside the building, and it brings out many funny situations along with some new traits from our characters that we didn’t know anything about. Dennah and Gil shine through the episode showing us the funniest traits of their characters so far.
There is so much chaos and so many things going on, but the punchlines always come on the right timing and the fast pace of the show just enhances the comedy and as such minutes just flew by. The episode is 21 minutes long, but it sure felt like it was barely 7 minutes long, I just enjoyed it that much.
The cute aspects of the show take over mostly by the end. Marry Me has the need to always come back to its status quo by the end, and as such it is not groundbreaking comedy -at least not yet-, but it doesn’t need to be; the show executes common comedy plots on incredible ways, especially this week. The show is willing to be chaotic and crazy, but it will always come back to the single fact that these guys love each other, and that’s ok, because it is the route the show chose and it embraced it while doing its best to deliver great laughs, and it works.
Considering all the goodwill put in here by both cast and crew, the perfect timing on the jokes, and the potential to become even better than what it has already shown us, the ratings for Marry Me become even sadder; a show like this which has been trying its hardest to make the best first impression should be doing better, and to think that now the best I can hope for is for all its 13 episodes to roll is pretty depressing. If by any chance the ratings can bounce back and this show can stick then that would only be doing justice to how great material there is in display here.
So I’ll tell you now: tune in the show, it is really good, and even if it ends up being just a one season wonder of 13 episodes, those 13 episodes will be worth watching.
Grade: A
Stray Observations:
-Even though Darrin was featured on last week’s episode, this is the first Marry Me episode that truly feels like a Happy Endings episode, and that’s a huge accomplishment.
-Dennah has a date that goes wrong in the most surprising -and funniest- way.
-The only thing I could complain about the episode is that Kay is a bit underused in a promising situation and Jake is still too serene and calm to be actually funny.
-You’ll see Gil taking charge of everything and it’s going to be epic; best way to add some layers into an otherwise uninteresting character so far. Also, at some point he will be appointed as a king. Yeah, wait to see how that happens!
