Seeing a bit of blowback about the “happy ending” undermining the message about stoicism and missing the opportunity to portray challenges like moving as an opportunity for new adventures and growth. Seems fair in my view.
I will love it they do a moving away episode with another character to show both sides. Rusty maybe, military family…
Can someone please give me a run down on why everyone seems to love this show? I know nothing about it, coming from a corner of genuine ignorance here.
Because it’s less a show aimed at children, and more aimed at their parents - especially millennial parents of youngish children. It’s clever, it’s earnest, it’s trying to teach it’s underlying philosophy but not in the ham-fisted “what did we learn today kids” format that most kids TV takes. It’s full of in-jokes, references and callbacks that most kids aren’t going to pick up on, and does a fantastic job at characterisation for all it’s supporting characters.
See if you can find the episodes “stickbird” and “baby race” - if those don’t land, then the show probably isn’t for you.
I would also add “Onesies”, really hit too close home for a lot of us. And I loved to see Brandy back on this last episode. Edit: mention to the last episode S03E49.
Could you give some examples on how it appeals to adults? I have 2 children with autism and I’m looking to find something safe for them that doesn’t get obnoxious
I’d say the best way for you to be judge is to take a look yourself if you can. The previously mentioned episodes ‘stickbird’ and ‘baby race’ are excellent examples of how the show appeals to adults as well as children.
It’s not overt in trying to appeal to parents with cringey side-jokes or too advanced themes.
It’s more situational - for example in baby race, bluey’s mum Chilli recounts comparing baby Bluey’s progress against the other babies at playgroup - a situation many (all?) parents can relate to. She (SPOILER) gets advice from a friend and learns to ‘run her own race’ - the concept that Chilli is trying to teach Bluey when she compared to her younger sister Bingo.
The whole show really is a masterpiece. I particularly like the music, and the fact that it’s set in my home town 🙂
When Chili tells Bluey she doesn’t want to leave either, she specifically says, “You took your first steps in that house!”
When they’re all taking their last looks in the house, Chili is standing in the kitchen staring at the spot where Bluey took her first steps in Baby Race!
The song played at the end is Megan Washington’s Lazarus Drug. Here’s the link to the Bluey version played at the end, including the bells ending with the bats.
My favourite part - Winton’s dad’s house is the house with the pool that they’re selling.
Great callback to the episode ‘helicopter’ where Winton tells Bluey to drop him in the pool at his dad’s house - "it’s the one with the deep end and a shallow end!"
Not relevant to this episode, but I loved the subtle continuity. Like in season 2, Stumpfest, Chilli says to one of the other parents, “I want to put in a fish pond.” And then like 60 episodes later, they do it. All the way in Season 3 episode 32.
Also, I laughed out loud when Bandit was putting Bluey to bed and they cut to Chilli putting Bingo to bed and she was buried under a mountain of stuffed animals.
Will need to watch it again to see if I missed anything in the background and quick cuts, and also because I missed a lot of the last few minutes with all the tears in my eyes
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