I am really trying to like this show and am willing to be patient with new shows as they find their feet, this one might eventually as well. The characters are all caricatures and that's fine, that can even be funny at times. This show has a decent cast who are all trying their best with the VERY limited material they have to work with. The first five episodes of this show have seemed to work really hard to set this up as light, fun but forgettable comedy, again that's fine and something I was actually looking forward to.
All that out of the way, let's now specifically talk about this episode. It just has to do what all shows seem to need to do these days and ram a hot topic down the audience's throat. I am not here for this, I am here for fun and to escape the miserableness of the world for a bit.
This episode man, what a mess. The whole criminal thing is stupid, regardless of the in your face issues this show VERY messily and stupidly handles about race and vandalism v artistic expression, why are we suddenly implying kids are smarter than adults? Is this suddenly a kids' show?
If so, a lot of the previous episodes' unfunny jokes aimed at adults become quite inappropriate. If it is not a kids' show, why are they suddenly trying to make all the adults look stupid and the kids super smart? As an adult, this is not what I want to switch in to watch and that is also quite offensive. Is this 'protest' really the hill the bailiff wants to die on?
This show is bland and this episode an absolute mess, even in terms of the race topic, Abbott Elementary just did an episode around the same topic albeit a very different setting and managed to make it both funny and relevant. Watch that show instead.