When it began, Man Seeking Woman was a show about, obviously, a man seeking a woman. It was more clever than funny - though still usually plenty funny - with all kinds of common phrases and feelings turned into bad puns and played out to absurd conclusions. It's hard to describe. It's kind of like a sketch show, but not really.
Anyway, here in the third season the showrunners wisely decided, "Hey, know what? Our hapless idiot main character can't stay single forever, and we've already dried up that well. So let's give him a girlfriend already." And that's exactly what they did, and they spent these last ten episodes visiting new territory and doing the same thing to "man finds a woman" that they used to do to "man seeking woman."
This has never been my favorite show or even close to it, but it's always been a show I've rooted for and enjoyed. It's original and relentless with whatever it sets its sites on. Some episodes over the years have completely tanked for me, but at least they aren't afraid to go all out for it, you know? Pivoting tone and joke alike sometimes two or three times per episode. So if this ends up being the last season of Man Seeking Woman I'll be sorry to see it go, but impressed that it lasted for three straight seasons of all-out absurdity. (And it ends with a wedding, and its got miserable ratings, so really, why not? Where do they even go next? Having kids? That's an entirely different show for an almost entirely different demographic.)
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