Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Synopsis

While the School performs Fairy tale shows to local kids Doris learns life is no fairy tale after she is mugged.

Meanwhile Dwight struggles with his feelings towards Holly when they have to work together on a show.

My Review

I like this episode a lot. Season 4 is definitely lighter than the three previous seasons and even though the storyline of Doris being mugged is pretty heavy they have approached it in a unique way. Linking the events to what is happening in the fairytale makes the story feel lighter than if they had done a straight forward mugging storyline.

At times the writers are a little heavy handed in achieving this like having someone the Kids call Grandma who lives next door to the school and the acting of the children is a little over the top but I can forgive the show these little issues.

I like how, at first, Doris is all gungho and the show must go on but when it finally hits the mugging is all she can talk about. This is Valerie’s last big storyline before she leaves and it gives her something to get her teeth into.

I love the relationship between Doris and Danny. We already know that they are really good friends but it’s nice to see that demonstrated here with how Danny wants to do things to help Doris.

I also like the on going storyline of Dwight’s crush on Holly, it gives us some great continuity. However, I was a little confused as to Dwight’s issue of even talking to Holly. In previous episodes we’ve known about his crush but that hasn’t actually stopped him talking to Holly. Maybe it’s the added pressure of having to kiss Holly that has changed how he acts around her. Still it’s good fun how how he pretends Holly is his pet dog.

I was also a little confused as to the facts that the other kids didn’t want Dwight going to the movies with them. Dwight has been hanging around with the other kids at Caruso’s in season 3 and at Lou’s previously in this Season and no one ever seemed to have issues with that. It irritates me that writers change how friendships work and how characters behave to fit the current storyline without any regard for what has already been established and don't think the audience will notice.

The music in this episode is great. I really love Valerie on “The Child In Me” and her singing with Nia and Jesse on “Happily Ever After”. Presumably David Greenlee isn’t really a singer as they turned his song into a poem for him to perform. Still with the music it works really well and I like the whole performance. Cynthia then performs “Lucky Star” which is nice as there haven’t been very many solo songs that Cynthia has performed this season.

One other thing that confuses me is when Cynthia performs “Lucky Star” Dwight is dressed in his frog outfit. Then later on when the two rehearse again he asks her what she thinks of his costume as though she’s never seen it before.

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