I mean what can I say? I'm in tears as I type. As a viewer, you get sucked into these peoples lives, watching like a voyeur, as through their lives are your own. You are living through the eyes of each character as they learn how to navigate in the world and what a pleasure it is to get to watch them experience all of the universal feelings of love, loss, grief, pain, happiness, sadness, loneliness, anger, elation, success, failure and Everything else in between. These universal truths are what it means to be human. People everywhere, no matter where you're from, or what you do, have lived through these same emotions at different points throughout our lives. As a viewer, you are moved, not by their success or technical savvy, but by their pains and gains, their ups and downs, their happiness and unhappiness, their grief or joy, their shared experience and the their shared nostalgia from their time spent together. It's something everyone relates to. If nothing more this episode in particular emphasizes how Necessary, and sometimes tragic, human connection can be. It was never a show about the computer boom, or the upward tech movement that was the 80's, it has always been a show about people and their relationships at its heart. People who we cared about. People, who by one way or another, found each other, or crossed paths with one another, which lead them through their own personal journey and self discovery. For all of the achievements they made professionally, as well as the failures, the show never lost site of its true narrative. Personal connection, Relationships, families, friends, lovers, while all extremely important, it is rather messy. Life is messy that way, and this show never shyed away from the messiness of it all. The connections that are formed, either out of love, spite, envy, admiration, lust, or whatever the reason, they all end up going through The same personal and collective highs and lows, that is life tosses at. Life lessons are universal, and this show understands how to portray love and loss, grief and pain, sadness and happiness, success and failure, friendship and betrayal, feelings of bitterness, or rivalry and jealousy with style and substance. Things get messy because relationships are messy. Life is messy. It's human nature. So, Instead of being a show with technology at it's core, you come to realize that technology is just a prop in the story with human connection being its true core. It's a heartfelt portrayal of the struggles, the relationships, the good times, and the not so good times, that is what we call life. One day your just living your life, and the next day something happens, and you realize that what you once believed to be so important, ends up being trivial I'm comparison. We get to see the characters through their journey to self discovery, and how The end up reaching that conclusion in different ways. Life really is about the little things, and the people you meet along the way, and the ones you get to share it with. It's about making lifelong friends, and sometimes foes, but coming out the other end knowing that for better or worse, sick or heathy, rich or poor, none of it matters if you have no one to share it with or to care for. Each character reaches a point where they learn to value each other more than placing so much value and effort into becoming successful in business. Some come to that conclusion earlier than others, some perhaps never do, but all those things they have experienced and lived through to tell the tale isn't as great If there is no one to tell it to or share it with. At the end of the day the material and need for success isn't as important as it use to be. It's a story of what happens when you're so busy living your life, always busy thinking of the next big thing, that you forget what matters most. Life is all about the people you meet along the way. The ones who helped shape your life. Those who stuck by you. The people who know you the best. The people who you've seen, and who have seen you, at your worst and at your best, and everything in between. It's how you end up forming lifelong connections with people, knowingly or unknowingly, which shape each others lives in one way or another. It's a moving portrayal of universal themes such as: love, loss, grief, success, failure, sadness, happiness, togetherness, loneliness and everything else in between. It's what makes us human. Sure computers are great and all, but it's the connections made between humans that really make computer's worth pursing. Because at the end of the day, it's the relationships we formed over the years that really matter. The rest of it is just figuring out what to do next, while going through the motions, on your path to self discovery, all to end up discovering it's those connections with those people that matter the most in the first place.
Review of Goodwill
