The season ends with Jason sitting in a field, surrounded by the series’ key characters, who comment on what they’ve seen. Following confrontations with Simone and the boy in makeup (i.e., his younger self), Jason learns to take responsibility for his life, his choices and his pain, channeling the new perspective into a script called Dispatches from Elsewhere. Setting out to find himself, Jason surrenders to the unknown, learning a couple of fundamental lessons along the way: 1) Neither he nor his pain is unique, and that’s OK and 2) the only thing he needs to know at any given time is what to do next. He is then quickly inducted into the same mysterious game (or social experiment) the series has explored all along. Soon, though, we learn that this isn’t Peter-that the person speaking is Segel, himself.Īfter the meeting, Jason bonds with Simone (Eve Lindley) over his inability to figure out his next move. At first, we think this is Peter-the character that series creator-star Jason Segel has played throughout Season 1. Subsequently, we transition to a meeting where a familiar face describes his struggles with alcohol, and how lost and empty he feels after being used up by the industry that made him a star. Inspired by what he’s seen, the boy becomes an actor, ending up in the clown makeup we’ve seen him wear since episode 3.Īuditioning for a room of executives with a rendition of “Make ‘Em Laugh”-the iconic song from Singin’ in the Rain-the young thesp shoots to stardom, only to realize that show business isn’t all he hoped it would be. Titled “The Boy,” episode 10 of the freshman AMC drama opens on a boy in a black-and-white world, watching such classics as The Muppet Show and Harold and Maude on his small retro TV.
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