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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I both struggled in season 2 with how incredibly unlikeable Jack (Will Forte) was. They kind of redeemed him by the end but it was hard to get to that point.

I get that the idea was that he was grieving his friend, but they all lost a friend. His pushiness in wanting everyone to grieve the same way reminded me of people in my real life and it was so irritating -- the narcissism of deciding your feelings are everyone's feelings and if they can't get on board with how you are expressing your feelings, it must be because their feelings are wrong.

Also it was extremely on point that he was the most insane about Covid precautions but then his insanity resulted in them all getting Covid. Tracks, that happened in our friend bubble too![/quote]

I think Jack was just sort of a doormat in season 1 so they needed to give him some texture.  I found his need to have peolel grieve in a specific way to be realistic and fitting his character but what was irritating was everyone else’s inability to validate that feeling and then say “that’s not right for me though.”  But I guess it made sense in the context of Tina fey’s character having a pathological need to avoid upsetting  or emotional conversations.  He has basically accommodated that their whole lives by being the easy going one, emotionally, so then when he hits a rough spot, that dynamic doesn’t work.  And I think nicks death hit him harder because it was clear that was his only friend and Nick was sort of his “cool guy North Star” friend.  The other couple have all their fabulous gay friends that they keep mentioning.

The whole show was basically about how the habits you’ve developed over decades can fall apart in middle age, for various reasons.  Each one of the couples had a dynamic that was shown to be dysfunctional in season 1 and in season 2 they had to basically rearrange that dynamic.  (With anne, it was her utter dependency on Nick —when Nick died, she replaced him with his gf/baby and became their caretaker … then realized this is f—ed up and I don’t even really remember who I was before I started down that path.). [/quote]

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