YMMV / Jack & Bobby

• Broken Base: The flash-forward scenes, some like them and think they make the show unique, while others hate them due to finding being too distracting from the main plots.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Bradley Cooper is the recurring character grad school student and Grace's lover interest Tom Wexler Graham.
  • Tom Cavanagh appeared as the boys' uncle Jimmy, long before he was making the Flash's life miserable.
• The Scrappy:
  • Missy. She does nothing but complicate Jack's life, first with her wanting to date him, the pregnancy scare, and her inability to see anyone else's position, cares only about herself, and worst of all, detracts the plot away from Jack and Bobby's development into their adult selves.
  • Grace. Surrounds herself with sycophantic college students and tried to manipulate her son into being just another one of her followers. Neglects her kids so she can get high and tries to make her older son a Parental Substitute for her younger son. Got caught breaking a rule that she wrote and called everyone else sexist for trying to enforce said rule, even though she wasn’t punished at all. Publicly shamed an observant Muslim student for being religious. Blatantly employed all the usual victim-blaming tactics she always rails against when a friend of hers was accused of sexual misconduct. In the future, Bobby almost lost the election to maintain her lie about his father.

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