Superstore: Guns, Pills and Birds (2016)
Season 2, Episode 3
1/10
Astonishingly Bad 'Cause' Episode
7 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Gun control and birth control were explored in this episode, but in a phenomenally bad and unrealistic way.

In essence, the problem here is the character Jonah, who has a job, but seems to think he is entitled to say what he can and cannot do on the job.

If this were the case, then there are endless teen-agers who would be paid for doing nothing, as they are offended at being told what to do.

Since gun control is a liberal issue, the episode sought to achieve a balance with another character protesting birth control, but in his attempt to control the selling of the morning after drug, he purchases all the pills THEN turns around and must SELL them as he spent too much money on the non-refundable items.

We get nothing like this with the gun control issue. Oh, I have to do my required job, which is sell these guns, or I won't get a paycheck.

Tossed in is an astonishingly ridiculous sub-plot with crows in the store.

In the end, the episode offers no humor (as tho it were lightening these topics) and resolves nothing on either issue, so no point of the entire episode.

Thumbs down.
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