Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
Not unlike this season's "Girl Meets Fish," "Girl Meets Commonism" felt jarringly out of place, and that's because it was literally out of place. This episode was shot in 2014 and remained unaired until this week, which made parts of this storyline feel dated. Farkle's brightly colored outfits were the dead giveaway, but the characters themselves also seemed less enlightened than they are now, which at the time was probably fine but this far into Season 2 was a little hard to watch.
That said, "Girl Meets Commonism" was a fine standalone episode -- much better than "Girl Meets Fish" anyway. The class's crash course in communism was definitely an interesting basis for an episode, if also simplistic in execution. For example, Cory's "incentive leads to advancement" speech hit on all the major points of why democracy works in America. At the same time, this episode did a good job of showing why communism might appeal to young, developing minds. However, it didn't seem very characteristic of Riley, Maya and Farkle to blindly embrace cheating, even in their earlier days. Which is to say, the inciting incident was pretty weak.
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Not unlike this season's "Girl Meets Fish," "Girl Meets Commonism" felt jarringly out of place, and that's because it was literally out of place. This episode was shot in 2014 and remained unaired until this week, which made parts of this storyline feel dated. Farkle's brightly colored outfits were the dead giveaway, but the characters themselves also seemed less enlightened than they are now, which at the time was probably fine but this far into Season 2 was a little hard to watch.
That said, "Girl Meets Commonism" was a fine standalone episode -- much better than "Girl Meets Fish" anyway. The class's crash course in communism was definitely an interesting basis for an episode, if also simplistic in execution. For example, Cory's "incentive leads to advancement" speech hit on all the major points of why democracy works in America. At the same time, this episode did a good job of showing why communism might appeal to young, developing minds. However, it didn't seem very characteristic of Riley, Maya and Farkle to blindly embrace cheating, even in their earlier days. Which is to say, the inciting incident was pretty weak.
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