Lena Hall's singing really delivered. It really did.

Heh, that you can relate these things with your own experience as a creative worker does say quite a lot. That does seem to be quite the dilemma in such professions. It's a very careful balance between success and authenticity.

Svengallop... Honestly, to me it looks like it was for the best that he was the stereotypical insensitive, overbearing and entitled, high-horse, classist douchebag snob. Clearly he's only there to deliver on the conflict and that does seem to have been delivered well. The story really was about Rara making this choice. Speaking of which...

Yeah, it is pretty open-ended. Something I've said before is that maybe she and AJ will be writing wo each other again. There she could tell AJ about how she's been managing things. I could imagine her settling for a more modest lifestyle with the perk to that being a more whole-hearted way of life.

Amy Keating Rogers. This is what she wanted and now she has the chance to go work for Disney. May she succeed in her endeavors but not lose sight of herself.

With another writer moving on, there's definitely going to be change to the series down the road. Who is to say what season 6 will bring.

Lena Hall's singing really delivered. It really did.

 

Heh, that you can relate these things with your own experience as a creative worker does say quite a lot. That does seem to be quite the dilemma in such professions. It's a very careful balance between success and authenticity.

 

Svengallop... Honestly, to me it looks like it was for the best that he was the stereotypical insensitive, overbearing and entitled, high-horse, classist douchebag snob. Clearly he's only there to deliver on the conflict and that does seem to have been delivered well. The story really was about Rara making this choice. Speaking of which...

 

Yeah, it is pretty open-ended. Something I've said before is that maybe she and AJ will be writing wo each other again. There she could tell AJ about how she's been managing things. I could imagine her settling for a more modest lifestyle with the perk to that being a more whole-hearted way of life.

 

Amy Keating Rogers. This is what she wanted and now she has the chance to go work for Disney. May she succeed in her endeavors but not lose sight of herself.

 

With another writer moving on, there's definitely going to be change to the series down the road. Who is to say what season 6 will bring.

Agreed. You can just tell that she's practically on a whole other level (at least, when it comes to the types of songs she's singing).

I only hope most of the things it says are good XD But yeah, productivity and personal investment can be a tricky think to balance. One can often make you lose sight of the other.

I'm definitely curious as to what they'll do with Rara after this. She could just go the way of Cheese Sandwich, but while Weird Al was certainly game, Lena Hall definitely sounded more enthusiastic, of the two. I could see an episode about the difficulty in maintaining long distance friendships, especially when one of you is a celebrity with more prestigious figures in your life. There might, say, come a point where they'd have to crack and admit that they worry about the other one feeling awkward about on the whole thing.

As long as Meghan McCarthy's the director, the direction and tone of the series will probably not change too much (unless she starts really feeling the pressure to come up with new things for the gang to do). We might get a few new, slightly different styles in there, but I think it's more just the general quality of the episodes hinging on this. Although, if we have Amy Keating Rogers on her way out and Neal Dusedau, Nick Confalone, and Gillian Berrow on their way in, I might be just a tad nervous...