A hilarious win-win for Reggie Dinkins viewers suggests some painful losses later in the season (The Fall And Rise Of Reggie Dinkins Spiking)

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Late in an episode packed with potentially show-changing moral quandaries, Reggie and Monica reveal to Arthur Tobin’s cameraman (the unseen but pliable Marty), that they’ve just pulled off “a win-win-win.” “Our first one!,” Reggie exclaims as they embrace the return to Dinkins house status quo. The callback to the very first episode’s concluding deal between Reggie, Monica, and Arthur highlights just how The Fall And Rise Of Reggie Dinkins is planning to keep its loose, amiably low-stakes gang together.

A sitcom episode needs an inciting incident, and this week it’s Arthur’s video chat with his documentarian mentor, Vernon Bellow (played as a fussy scold who can’t work his Zoom filters by ever-delightful Broadway legend André De Shields ). After Arthur goes to Bellow for absolution about his cushy and questionably ethical living arrangement with his film’s subject, the elder filmmaker (whose motto “There is no art without suffering” he proved by spending six months as a corpse to ferret out “corpse abuse at a small town crematorium” in his award-winning doc The Smell Of Silence) scoffs, “I mean, it’s not like you’re letting them pay for the film—that would be a betrayal of the most basic documentary ethics.”

But the broke Arthur is letting Reggie and Monica pay for everything, as inevitably comes to light when Monica interrupts the call to demand Arthur censor footage of her getting stuck in the elaborately disgusting pasta-eating mishap that gives “Spaghetti Loop” its title. (Reggie, doubling the joke, restates the arrangement with Arthur in the bluntest and most incriminating terms for Bellow to hear.) With an errant kitty face filter undermining his judgemental dudgeon, the natty Bellow storms off, branding his once-treasured mentee with an imperious, “Judas!” (Somewhat undermined by an errant spray of onscreen balloons, but Arthur’s still devastated.)

And since every inciting A-story needs a solid B, Rusty similarly undergoes a crisis of conscience when Brina, confronted by Rusty scarfing down her off-limits jam, accuses him of being a moocher. That both of these feints toward destabilizing change are resolved by the end of the episode isn’t surprising—that’s what traditional sitcoms do. What’s slyly satisfying about each resolution is how they circle back to restate narrative necessity, more than mere “because we need things to stay the same” convenience.

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