User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Dress/@comment-31620203-20171014012451/@comment-31194372-20171014055541

insert glass ceiling joke

That's an interesting point to make - how would the show handle "The Dress" now? We've already seen that the show is able to elevate something so painfully juvenile into something masterful (i.e. "The Slap"), so I'm led to believe that they could find some way to pull off the premise better, to some capacity, though maybe swapping out Darwin for another character. This is an episode driven by humor and humor alone, so its success rests more in how far it's willing to take its jokes, and that's honestly where all the issues with "The Dress" lay: it disregards quite a bit in order to make itself work in the end. Even then, though, it's not bent on breaking some preestablished hierarchy, as in episodes like "The Ex" or "The Stars," so I can't say it bothers me too much.

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