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I always love seeing more of the security guard and his behavior. the only reason people didnt like the episode is because it focused on black people

Remember when NBC gave us Seinfeld, the show about nothing that actually talked about a lot of taboo things in the 90's? Seinfeld proved you can be funny and include some message and people will accept it, if it is funny. Superstore is a comedy, it's ok if they want to deliver some progressive message but it has to be in the context of what the show has been for 5 years: a sitcom. This episode was just painful to watch, it came across as preachy, only thing missing was Garret turning to the camera and scolding the white viewers. Not funny at all, not a good vehicle for what they were trying to convey. It's bad enough they had to shoehorn C19 in there, but also a lecture on CRT. By far the worst episode of the show.

I think this is, controversially, one of the better written ones.

The Garrett/Jonah dynamic (and that of the rest of the staff) is a great take on how the two "groups" interact with eachother about racism. Their dialogue as a whole was a great metaphor.

Although I don't think it's *that* in-your-face, such a political statement at the cost of the usual cynical ""woke"" humour doesn't really fit this series and makes it a slightly uncomfortable episode.

It's a shame because Superstore did a great job at making fun of various woke causes in previous episodes, especially all the ridiculous rules for Halloween costumes which quickly start to contradict each-other. Is it appropriation or representation/appreciation?

At least this episode acknowledges that "anti-racist" crusades often get lost, become vague or end up explicitly discriminating anyway (usually against whites). And Jonah is the annoying liberal who actually seems to care more about feeling good than anything else.

It doesn't seem to occur to any characters that decisions to lock up products which black people buy might be based on the reality of crime statistics. It's not hard to find hundreds of videos of looting, with a non-random distribution of looters, especially these days. And crime statistics are tracked by the FBI along with many state and city authorities independently.

They assume that stereotypes arise out of thin air rather than realising that real problems tend to grow into stereotypes which reflect the problems.

The subplot with Cheyenne and Mateo was mildly amusing. Most of the jokes missed because everything seemed to take a sideline to the main, shallow and obvious political message.

Seasoned imdb users can measure how explosive or provocative a certain episode is by the massive spike in imdb user votes and imdb user reviews, and Hair Care Products you could see a mile away as being in this category particularly with the number of one star reviews that prolific reviewers have taken the time to post I guess to get things off their chest.

Anyway, let's focus on some humorous moments like when Dina dismissively referred to Garrett as the Balcony Muppet and the role of pizza, which is an Italian invention by the way, was a primary, powerful and provocative motif in Hair Care Products.