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Giving Burski an empathetic side pairs him well with Danny in this episode, even if their journeys are markedly different in construction, tone, and resolution. For the first time, Undateable is exposing the hopeless romantic under Burski’s defensive surface, a facade made of raunchy jokes and creepy fetishes that still make their way to the surface in “Rivalry,” but act as footnotes to a more complex human being, rather than the defining actions of a weirdo nobody should want to hang out with. It’s stronger than ever in this week’s half hour, which sees Burski scrambling to get a suit so he can surprise Leslie and be her date to an event she’s going to be recognized at (more on that in a second).
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While “Sibling Rivalry” is very much about Danny showing his sister that he actually cares about her, the episode also takes on a number of other interesting ideas, chief among them Burski’s pursuit of Leslie, which has a noticeably different tone than their interactions did last season.īurski’s perversions are still well-noted (in this episode alone, he admires a tailor for giving him extra room in the crotch of his pants), but “Sibling Rivalry” and previous episodes this season have added an endearing angle to this. There are still times where it feels like the show’s a little too focused on The Burton, but “A Sibling Rivalry” shows how it can actually use an extreme focus on Danny as a gateway to stories about other characters. Yet Undateable has avoided this problem masterfully, and it’s done so by using Danny’s story to illuminate the lives of other characters. While Danny’s maturity makes a great focal point for defining the character, the story – in theory – could become so centered around Danny (just how he’d like it, I imagine) that it could marginalize the other players of Undateable, reducing them to reactionary forces orbiting around the bright sun of Danny Burton’s perfect hair and inability to comprehend compliments from other human beings.
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The Evolution of Danny Burton has been the overarching story of Undateable‘s second season, which puts the show in an interesting, and challenging position.