Record snowfall has frozen the doors shut.
Assistant manager Dina (swaggery Lauren Ash) has a survival plan that doesn’t involve immediate cannibalism.
Here’s an old-fashioned workplace sitcom where work is an economic prison.
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Employees wear matching blue vests and matching grimaces, caught between customers and corporate overseers.
It’s a riot.
I live for sequences in the break room, when laugh lines pinball through the brilliant ensemble.
Superstore’s fourth season has been on hiatus since December.
It was a nerve-wracking break, frankly, for a show that never gets the attention it deserves.
Thankfully, NBC just announced a season 5 renewal.
And a burst of new episodes starting Thursday exemplifies this sitcom’s goofy-sharp charm.
The screen fills with product placement every scene is a chance to play “Spot the LaCroix!”
but what other show has ever dared to make (funny!)
jokes about Oprah Winfrey, AIDS, and Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, all in one minute or less?
In our binge-everything era, the episodic plots are uniquely welcoming to newcomers.
(Late to another party, I only started watching last year.)
Some gags can feel a littletooold-fashioned, misunderstandings piled atop overreactions.
And this season has wonderfully showcased Ferrera (who’s also a producer).
Amy’s ambition is a downbeat joke that the show also believes in.
Believe inSuperstore, too.
On paper, it’s a no-concept throwback: People work together, laughs ensue.
All hail the Cloud 9 employees: Their drudgery is joyful.A-
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