Reboot Season 1
Episode 7 Preview & Review
Reed doesn't want to play anymore, but Zack convinces him to help because they're a player.
First off, Reed isn't playing his best game. But when the kids start teasing him, he steps it up. In a fit of excitement, he accidentally hits the youngest child in the face with a basketball, breaking his nose.
A girl records the incident and says she will leak the news that Reed is anti-Semitic (all the kids are Jewish) on social media. Reed tries to steal her phone, but is caught on video by another girl.
When Zack approaches, the girls shift focus and declare that they are big fans. So Zack makes a deal with them: He'll take them to prom and they can't leak the videos.
Hannah, meanwhile, struggles not to mess up Clay's lines. And Gordon can't stop the writers' room from turning into chaos. Bree keeps interrupting others to make her character look good.
But Hanna doesn't have an easy time with Bree either. When it becomes clear that Bree is not helping, the actress leaves.
Selma follows him to cheer him up, but also gives him some tough advice. He tells Bree that if she wants to make it in the writers' room, she needs to lose her vanity, be extremely funny, and make others see her talent.
Bree decides to go back. Instead of making an empty suggestion, he makes a joke. Hannah and the other writers love it, and Bree gets a taste of what it's like to be a writer.
Gordon tries to use a "tough love" approach with Clay to help him cross his line. But nothing works.
Finally, he asks Clay how he got worse at this than before. Clay says that drinking used to help him, but now he's trying to stay sober.
Gordon has an idea. He walks over to Clay, hugs him tightly, and asks him to read his line. Clay sings it flawlessly. He's finally done – but it takes a while longer to let Gordon go.
After a long day at work, Hannah and Gordon congratulate themselves on a job well done.
Episode Review
Keegan Michael-Key gives a comical, whimsical performance in a rather odd basketball game. Other than that, there isn't much to invest in this episode of Reboot.
It's a strange decision to make this episode about Hannah and Gordon when it could have gone deeper into Bree and Clay's characters and their goals. Instead, Hannah and Gordon pat themselves on the back for barely doing anything.
There is even a false equivalency between their actions. If Hanna does nothing to encourage Bree (why didn't the writers make her talk to the actress instead of Selma?), Gordon at least provides some sense of comfort for Clay.
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