"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Gets Raves Reviews for It's Unexpected Awe-inspiring Season Finale Gay Episode

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Wtf?

That was so unsettling to watch. Just wtf... Beautiful but so sincere.

I read the av article thanks op. But i still don't get it. What was that?!

That music... Haunting. Makes me worry about death and panic about not having really lived.

FUCK — late night death panic, like someone on DL was talking about.

Thanks a lot....

Did not see that coming. Wow!

Meh. Mawkish and pretentious.

I want McElhenney to fuck me so hard. Look at that body.

Got to agree with R7. I watch It's Always Sunny for comedy, not self-indulgent crap like that. It doesn't help that it came at the end of a particularly poor season.

I agree R8 his body is amazing

It was moving and everything, and I think in any other show it would have worked for me. But given how they've previously handled extremely serious issues like Charlies uncle molesting him throughout his childhood, and racism with comedic episodes that turned out to be some of their best. I don't think I liked them looking at an important step in Mac coming out to his psychotic bisexual dad and deciding to play it serious.

It was fun - glad they did it.

I think he should have been dancing with a guy.

If they wanted to be serious they should been different than Mack wanting approval from his horrible father.

Still I think it a very nice dance and a nice moment.

That dance number got me a little emotional. Well done.

I think they wanted to do something since because they received thousands of letters after Mac initially came out.

[quote] When asked why he decided to end Season 13 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” with an unprecedented modern dance sequence, co-creator, star, and dancer Rob McElhenney said a recent experience reframed his perspective on the long-running FX comedy.

[quote] “Something sort of extraordinary happened to me when Mac came out [last season],” McElhenney said during a TCA panel earlier this year. “I had a massive response [from] our fans in the LGBTQ community that reached out and told me how moved they were and how important it was to them that they felt represented on a show that they loved. I was not expecting that — I mean, thousands and thousands and thousands of people.”

[QUOTE]I think he should have been dancing with a guy.

You really didn't understand it, did you?

Unexpected. and stunning.

Mac has spent all 13 seasons desperately trying to gain the approval of both of his parents who could care less about him. It was moving to me, because I think he can move on them from them now. Frank has always said that he didn’t “get” Mac, and in a lot of ways, Frank really is the only present father figure Mac has ever had. Mac lost a father, but gained another one.

Also, I loved the scene where Frank and Mad are going to the fetish club/buffet and Frank asks Mac to watch his back because he doesn’t want anyone to hit on him. Mac goes, “Your 70 years old and your face looks like rotting hamburger meat, I think you’ll be safe”

Great line @R19. I think I'll save it to use the next time some queen here posts about how he's 70 y/o, could pass for 25 and can't leave his house without some twink hitting on him.

^ r20 can't come up with his own lines to use on an anonymous message board where nothing may be what it seems

" It's Unexpected Awe-inspiring Season Finale "

OP is an idiot.

Nobody seems to realize that it's a Martha Graham spoof.

Kudos to the choreographer, it was beautiful.

But I don't get what it was supposed to mean.

Who's Martha Graham?

R24, earlier in the episode he tried to come out to his dad but explains it in a very confusing, emotional way that the father interpreted as Mac saying he had gotten a girl pregnant. The dance is a physical version of Mac’s awkward explanation.

[QUOTE]Who's Martha Graham?

She's the inventor of the Graham Cracker

R26, thanks for the explanation.

Does Mac have a boyfriend?

Mac’s boyfriend is either Dennis or Jesus

"Who's Martha Graham?"

R25, she's the Liz Taylor role in "Virginia Woolf."

I also think he should have danced with a man. I get what they are going for but it's not that kind of show, I don't watch it to learn a lesson.

Did those saying he should've danced with a man not watch the episode? Specifically:

[QUOTE]Wait wait wait...you’re gay, but you’re dancing with a hot chick, and she’s God?

[QUOTE]Yes.

[QUOTE]The Catholics really fucked you up.

one of the most touching awesome things ive seen on tv

kudos to rob.

hot! sexy! brilliant !

Sunny has reached peak self-indulgence. And it used to be so funny.

god dam he is hot. I will now watch that show every episode.

Can someone let me know how the episode ended?

Five minutes before the show finished, my cable company switched over to a Dancing With The Stars rerun, in which the celebrity did a routine that was way over his ability and obviously got him sent home that week.

Its a spoof.

I wanna spoof all over his hot ho hot fukin body

yumz

R36 Mac finishes the dance, and his father, looking angry and annoyed, leaves the performance. Mac notices and collapses in the arms of his dance partner who comforts him. It then cuts to Frank in the audience, who is crying and says he finally “gets it”

Also, this isn’t the first time the show has dealt with emotional topics. Last season, Dennis stood up for the little girl in the water park who he thought was being neglected by her mother, and he also emotionally decides to move to North Dakota after realizing he doesn’t want his son to have a shitty, emotionally distant father like he had growing up

Whoosh for R39

The water park one was not emotional at all, it was done jokingly. Even Dennis leaving wasn't anything like the dance and actually had a funny ending. Though given how you missed R36's joke, I guess you don't have much of a sense of humour.

‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Finale: Rob McElhenney’s Epic Dance Routine Takes Season 13 to a Profound New Level

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[quote]You really didn't understand it, did you?

No, most of us didn't. Explain please.

A generous free buffet of fried food at a gay sex club is six kinds of WRONG

R44 God was a woman to represent Mac's belief he's a failure to God for not being attracted to women. Her telling him "it's okay" is meant to show God reassuring him she accepts him as he is.

Whaaa?

I don;t get it either. Why would he dance with a woman and not a guy? Please explain to me.

Literally can't put it any simpler than that. He dances with a woman to show that that's what he thinks he should be doing, but it isn't really what he wants. Again, it all goes back to Frank's line of

[QUOTE]The Catholics really fucked you up.

It's not a Martha Graham spoof. There isn't any semblance of her style of choreography in it.

It's just more 'X Factor' 'So You Think You Can Dance' stunt partnering, typical of TV show choreography that's completely debased the art form into a snazzy short routines similar to trained seals.

It would have been effective if he was dancing with another man. Blah

So literal in your thinking r51

I liked it better by Neil and Melanie Moore on So You Think You Can Dance. Trained Seals? No. But I get what you're saying R50. Still no one wants to watch Appalachian Spring or a full ballet on the TV.

When the dancers are this good and they imbue the choreography with subtext and emotion, even a100 second routine can tell the story. This is a different story than IASIP tried to tell, or is it?

Shows like 'So You Think You Can Dance' have trained TV and live audiences to hoot and holler like barn animals for every lift or double pirouette.

Basically he's showing his toned, jeans-clad ass in 5-second cuts. Picking her up as she's doing the real heavy lifting.

It's too artfully precious and obtuse for most people to understand that dance. The woman is "god?" And god says it okay to be attracted to men? What, huh, what? Yeah, okay, I guess it makes sense. But there should have been another man in there SOMEWHERE. The whole thing was waaaayyy too heteronormative in that regard. Because it was a highly sexualized dance with those hard bodies. Which pulled focus from the "meaning" of it.

Why do you guys think God should be a man? Mac is not who he tried to be. He's gay,not heterosexual. God may not have a gender, but it's ok for Mac to think of God as a nurturing mother. It's ok not to be what you think you are supposed to be. You are loved by the divine force anyway.

I like that I got to see a bit of his butt.

But not enough to justify that bilge.

I only watch dat tv show for the hot muscle guy

dam he fine

and dances good evid

go man go, naked!!!

For the next season he will be reverting to "Fat Mac," though.

no sir, next season he goes full frontal

I finally just watched the episode, and I hadn't read anything about it going into it, and I was blown away by the last five minutes. In part because this was so out of character for the show. I kept expecting a cut to what the dance really looked like, as they have done before. To see Mac demonstrate his internal struggle, his father walk out, and for Frank to say "I get it" was incredibly moving, and I think an amazing moment for the show,

I just sat there stunned for a good five minutes after the episode ended.

I watched the dance sequence again, and Danny Devito's performance was amazing as well. His facial expressions has he wordlessly began to understand what Mac had been trying to tell him earlier in the episode was pretty incredible. Kudos to the show for daring to break so far out of their mold.

I was frankly floored. It was very moving, and Devito -- his character a hideous joke throughout nearly the entire episode -- nailed it at the end. A genuine surprise.

It's not about sex. It's about acceptance. A man would have made it sexual. She's God.

I just watched this - shockingly moving. Indeed I didn’t expect this from IASIP (of which I’m a fan). I hope it gets an Emmy.