Naturally, Jonah stuck around, but not just because he fell in love with Amy. Our main guides through this world were Amy (America Ferrera), a young woman who had never intended to end up working at Cloud 9 for as long as she had, and Jonah (Ben Feldman), who took a job there in the series’ pilot, intending to leave as soon as possible. Like a lot of the most acclaimed sitcoms of the last decade, Superstore featured characters who fundamentally liked each other on some level, who worked together to try to make their bland and boring workplace a more exciting place to be. But its last arc - in which Cloud 9, the titular superstore, goes out of business as its parent company shifts toward online shopping during a Covid-19-related downturn in bricks-and-mortar sales - revealed the show at its most trenchant and most poignant. The series’ sadly truncated final season (which was reduced from a 20-episode to a 15-episode order) felt a touch rushed here and there as it worked to pull disparate story threads together and end the show. And that might be the most succinct way to characterize the daring but understated comedy, which never got the acclaim it deserved over its six seasons (though I surely tried to do my part). “Sometimes, it’s nice to be nice,” my wife said as the final episode of NBC’s Superstore wrapped up.
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