Just Shoot Me! # 005 The Maya-Nina a-story tracks a fairly...

Just Shoot Me! # 005

• The Maya-Nina a-story tracks a fairly predictable course. Jack advises his daughter to be nice to the ex-supermodel on her birthday, which proves difficult until Maya spots a chink in Nina’s armour and they bond.
  
• Stories like this are important in sitcoms to establish/illustrate bonds between characters who spend most of their screentime throwing insults at one another.
  
• The Elliot-Finch b-story is much funnier.
  
• Best gag? In the c-story Jack has been buying gadgets and one of them is a whistle that only birds can hear(!), which causes a bird to suddenly crash against the office window behind him. Very funny.
  

7/10

Just Shoot Me! # 004

Love David Spade, love Finch, but this episode drags. Not enough story/gags. The Nina b-story is one-note. The visual gag gets it’s one laugh early one, and repeated it doesn’t yield new laughs. 6/10

Just Shoot Me! # 003

Brilliant, hilarious episode with cast shining as the characters accidentally take hallucinogen candy. So funny. Lovely tender moment at the end, too, as Maya realises that her father has let be the first person (other than him) to prepare the entire magazine. 10/10