Season 4, but especially Season 5 seems to be hated and disliked by most fans. While I don't hate it (I actually like Season 4 a lot), I can understand why many didn't like Season 5.
While the final episode of Season 4 gave people some hope for Maddie and Dave and promises of Lamaze classes together, Season 5 skips right past all those plot points. It feels like they wrote some episodes that we just never got to see.
Last we knew, Maddie told Agnes and Walter that she KNOWS the baby is Sam's! Although that never made any sense, because how can the fatherhood be determined if none of the fathers where in a hospital with Maddie for a blood test.
So either Maddie lied to David and Agnes and Walter (which would beg the question as to why?) or the writers really dropped the ball here.
Either way, the episode now established that apparently it IS David's baby. But neither he nor Maddie can actually know about this, so the sad ending of the episode and the follow-up in the next episode don't make much sense.
The episode itself isn't completely bad. Bruce playing a baby is kind of cute. I also really liked "Water-cooler Roulette" between McGillicuddy and Viola.
This was one episode the creator of the show, Glenn wrote himself (even though he had left the show after season 3) and I wonder if he tried to fix the mess the show had started to become due to Cybill's pregnancy that surprises the producers and writers (he commented on that in the commentary for "Sam and Dave" in season 3 and how the show had a different outlining and plan originally).
Unfortunately the entire "Maddie Hayes pregnant" plot seems to be what put the kibosh on the show.
Many said it was because her and David had slept together, but I don't think that was it. After all, "The Nanny" did that too and the show didn't drop after.
So the episode gives us a bittersweet feeling. It's not bad, but it also reminds us of how much better it could have been if it would have been able to follow the plan the show originally had. One can't help but wonder...
I give it a 7/10.
While the final episode of Season 4 gave people some hope for Maddie and Dave and promises of Lamaze classes together, Season 5 skips right past all those plot points. It feels like they wrote some episodes that we just never got to see.
Last we knew, Maddie told Agnes and Walter that she KNOWS the baby is Sam's! Although that never made any sense, because how can the fatherhood be determined if none of the fathers where in a hospital with Maddie for a blood test.
So either Maddie lied to David and Agnes and Walter (which would beg the question as to why?) or the writers really dropped the ball here.
Either way, the episode now established that apparently it IS David's baby. But neither he nor Maddie can actually know about this, so the sad ending of the episode and the follow-up in the next episode don't make much sense.
The episode itself isn't completely bad. Bruce playing a baby is kind of cute. I also really liked "Water-cooler Roulette" between McGillicuddy and Viola.
This was one episode the creator of the show, Glenn wrote himself (even though he had left the show after season 3) and I wonder if he tried to fix the mess the show had started to become due to Cybill's pregnancy that surprises the producers and writers (he commented on that in the commentary for "Sam and Dave" in season 3 and how the show had a different outlining and plan originally).
Unfortunately the entire "Maddie Hayes pregnant" plot seems to be what put the kibosh on the show.
Many said it was because her and David had slept together, but I don't think that was it. After all, "The Nanny" did that too and the show didn't drop after.
So the episode gives us a bittersweet feeling. It's not bad, but it also reminds us of how much better it could have been if it would have been able to follow the plan the show originally had. One can't help but wonder...
I give it a 7/10.
