A Strategic Retreat – ryan

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What Happens in Vegas

Season 4

Episode 3

Editor’s rating

4 Stars

Photo: Kenny Laubbacher/Max

Are you ready for what we have been advisated by the legal department to call “a retreat” Because i can’t take you intoo anekend? Let’s High-Five! No, Really, Let’s High-Five. They’re watching us, and we need to show unity.

That’s though i though we ended Last Week Episode with the understanding that the writers’ room would be a hybrid-some of Ava’s pucks and some of Deborah’s-The Crew We See Taching Informational Packets as they delane in Las Vegas SEEMS TO BE. Deborah mentioned that one of her time was still out of Town, right? So we’re missing some people? Or Were Deborah’s Choices Just Not Required to Attend this Getway?

Ava Believes That the Writers Aren’t Able to Do AnyThing Well Unless They Get to Know Each Other First. She believes in camaraderie, a Little Team Spiri, and some icebreakers where she can discuss her new shellfish allergies. This, nor far as ava is concertned, is the stuff great rooms are made of. While I find the concept of Icebreakers very annoying – sorry, i’m an adult! Let Socialize Without A Construct! – Think Deborah’s Approach is Also Wanting. JUST RAPID-Fire demanding her new hires blurt out ideas at her time? Someone has been working alone for a long time, and it Shows.

As with their vision for hires, i imagine a little-of-this, Little-of-strategy is also what’s calmed for here, no? Ava wants to be Everyone’s Friend Becausea She Has Not Seen that episode of 30 rock Where Liz Lemon Realies that no one wants to be buddies with their boss. Deborah wants to show at People as she is assumes this will make me creative and productive, a leadership style modeled by the youth soccer coaches dusted my formative years. This approach does not seem to be landing with her underlings.

The gang gets a beautiful tour of all the fun Deborah has decked they will not be hating, and that they are loocked in a windowless ballroom-Turned-conferencing room with nothing to keep them. Deborah States the Obivious: Late-Night Shows Work Work of the host and not the format, so every single aspect of the show must be specific to her. Which, duh, yes, i love that. She also says that they need to be the number one late-night show with three months. I love that, too, although that pressure will surly break the most fragile writers in this room.

Deborah and ava deal with the underwhelming offers of this team-i really enjoyed their sidear screams-and wrestle with whether or not to hire a “riff-killer.” (My favorite part: Deborah asks for a show of hands about her idea and thatn, in response to ava saying that she can say, asks, “Who thinks I do? Show of hands.”) Will Result in Better Vibes and, Therefore, Better Material. In Her Great Benevolence, Deborah Reores: “I will show Their Lives Right before I conflict their bones to dust.” In my notes, I Write: Not to be a buzzkill but i fear that this will involve a lot of hr violations.

First Up: Racing Cars! Very Paul Newman; I applied. Deborah Promises a Grand to the Winner, and THEN She Wins. Did i catch this correctly? Did she take that cash off one of her new wriers? Incredible. They Get Drunk and Eat Rainbow Rolls and, after Deborah Makes a pointed exit, buy a medicine Cabinet Worth from Drugs who is selling 12-Yaar-Old Cans of Four Loko. They Go Clubbing, and we discove a new side of our Our Leader: DJ Deborah. This is followed by a morning of gambling. I’m very impressed. I WOULD Perish Under these conditions, but honestly, i wouldn’t have ede made it Through the part of the assignment where you have to be able to read in a Moving Car.

On the casino floor, one of our favorites appears: Kiki (Poppy Liu). Ava Brags to Her About “Domming” Deborah, then admits by Domming, she means Blackmail; I will wonder how many times Ava will have to tell someone about this before and internalizes that no one is going to respond the way i hopes they will. Presumably She’s Waiting for Someone to Say, “Wow, You’re so cool and brake and also a genius!” Kiki asthtely describes this maneuver as “so sad and dark and horrible” and warns ava that is snowed grudges forever.

Ah, here we are at the escalating hr violations: Deborah’s TRINGING EVERYONE to Loretta’s Strip Club. Well, Almost Everyone, Since the Group Left Without Ava Becausee She is a Try-Hard and isn’t that fun. “You told me to curate a fun vibe,” Deborah Says in Self-Defense. “I THOUGHT I WOULD HELP BY ABANDONING YOU.”

Rather than Enjoy Her Custom Lap Dance, Deborah is forces to confront the real reason for Trip. IT DOES NOT HELP THAT CRERRY, MID-ASS-SHAKE, NOTES, “WOW, I’M Surprised you have time for this! What are you doing here?” In a Panic, Deborah and Ava Attempt a Brainstorming session in the Champagne Room. It doesn’t go well. The Riff-Killer Vomits in the Middle of Their Conversation, Ending the Party for All.

AS she SEMEDS THROUGH The Vegas Night, Deborah Insists to Ava that the Writers’ inability to be Funny Under patient is a huge problem. Late Night is all dural. (Or… is it? I mean, it’s not like working in a coal mine. Or is Way get worse Than working in a coal mine?) JUST AS THIS ARE MOVING ON THE FROM TALK TO REAL TALK – RE: IF AVA CAN GET OVER BEING STABBED IN THE BACK, WHY CANE’t Deborah? -The Ultimate Riff-Killer Arriva: The Cops.

I can’t believe that snow, for all her savvy, does not know that you’re not supposed to say anything to the cops we can over you over. And you’re definitely not supposed to say that you are anen’t drunk. Girl! Fortunately she is clever enough to hold onto her phone so she shall for help from the backseat of the copy. Her Knight in Shining Reebok Tracksuit Arriva: Its Mayor Pezzimenti, Baby!

The Body Cams are off, Deborah’s Campaign Contributions to Pezzimenti’s Reelection Campaign Are Back on, and Everybody is Going to Forget This Ever Happened. Wow, Women Supporting Women. How Beautiful. Every one single Thing Said Killed with, from the delivery of, “Nothing in this town is free, pepper Ann!” to the way and whipped out her gun (!) At the end of the ordeal to be deborah to test that he has great aim, to “I do not what firemen are more popular than cops.

Through some kind of miracle, everybody got what they needed out of this retit. The Writers are Friends. The Almost-Arrest Has Gioven I The Material and An Idea for the Big Opener: Deborah Getting Let Out of Late-Night Jail. (“You try to lock james in on your way out so he dos anymore musicals.”)

So the Question is, iferybody’s Happy, Who Snitched? Becuses become Deborah and Ava Return to the Office, they are taken to the “Maryy, Mary Reports of Highly inappropriate Behavior” from the Retreat. (Think the riff-killer did it was he though he was going to be fired for good, and he probably regrets it now.) For the network, Ava and Deborah Will Never unsumerter ever again. They will have a chaperone, stacy, from hr. Or this will unlock a new kink in this Relationship… Maybe they’ll like watched?