OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)When CJ ends up using used motel sheets for the camp tents, the kids are sent into the wild for the night, causing much confusion. Max is happy to be free from supervision, but Neil starts thinking they might be infested (title drop!) with lice, which starts driving him nuts and leads to him shaving some of the other kids’ heads. Max sees the fire and assumes the camp is on fire, but then comes back to find Neil off the deep end, which ends in the two of them totally bald. The adults return and explain the situation, only to get caught up in the shaving too.OUR TAKEAnd just like that, Camp Camp is…over. Maybe for awhile, maybe forever. I’d say this was the weakest season finale, but that wouldn’t really be fair to say seeing as it’s…NOT a finale. Solid episode for sure, and good job to Armando Torres for writing it and playing CJ. He made a touching Instagram post earlier today talking about how thrilled he was to get to write the script and play the character, so hey, kudos to him on that. This probably makes the best use of CJ of his four episodes and shows how much he’s like Campbell, prioritizing cost-cutting and looking for any possible shortcut or spin doctoring to keep things technically legal while making sure to keep people thinking it’s a bargain. Maybe if there was more time, we could’ve seen that fleshed out a bit more. I have little doubt there was more planned for the character and this second summer as a whole, but we likely won’t know for at least a year what exactly that was. That’s the thing, it’s hard to really give the episode itself much focus when all I can think of is how this is likely the end of the series and that Rooster Teeth is mere weeks from ceasing to exist.But okay, let’s give the episode its due. As mentioned, good use of CJ. It’s also another episode that puts the kids in the wild, where some of the better plots have taken place, but it doesn’t really take it to its full potential, where those better episodes have. It further shows Max’s development over the course of the series, with him initially wanting to cut loose without being supervised, but then finds himself needing to be the responsible one when Neil loses it. Oh, and they make a joke about how Max and Nerris have different voices now, which made me chuckle! Again, perfectly fine episode, second best of the four I’d say, it just…doesn’t feel like a finale. But that’s because it wasn’t MEANT to be a finale! This whole season has been absolutely acceptable, it’s just unfortunate that this is where it ends. And yet it is, but hopefully just for now. That’s that, I guess, which means all that’s left is the Season Review next week…but that doesn’t really feel right to send off the whole show, now does it? Well, check back next week after that review goes up and maybe there’ll be something extra to really look back and give it a fond farewell. And as always, Campe Diem.
