User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Egg/@comment-30307603-20170930155451/@comment-31194372-20171001024030

Definitely. A consistent issue with "The Egg" is that people are viewing it as focusing on something that it isn't, and they're thus disappointed that the show doesn't deliver as strongly in that department.

That, however, directly feeds into my issues with "The Pest" - it places significance on something that its preceding episode didn't, which makes the intensity on display difficult to believe. You have an interesting idea there about how it further demonstrates both family's incompatibility, but did "The Egg" not do enough to demonstrate that? Season 4 really loved its sequel episodes, and I can't blame their desire to elevate upon its more successful efforts, but "The Pest" struggles by offering up a continuation that is both unwarranted in the necessity of its story-telling ("The Pest") and a desire to really see more ("The Awkwardness").

Yeah, so I'm making an effort to alternate between weekly disses on "The Apprentice" and "The Worst," solely for the sake of doing it, I guess. I couldn't possibly defend either episode - you have to understand that I legitimately appreciate every episode I talk about in "A Second Opinion" articles (excluding "The Picnic" and some from "Individual Appeals," where selection was out of my control) and I don't feign any of my positions - but I might find some way to meaningfully discuss both from a different angle. There's only so many more episodes I can defend before I have to move on to another concept.