Review: Quinnipiac

Few shows can be great. For every Friends, Seinfeld, and Breaking Bad there are a hundred more shows like Go On, Mr. Sunshine, and The Odd Couple – and those are just Matthew Perry shows! However, even rarer than great shows are the ones that seemingly last forever. Finishing up its 87th season, Quinnipiac falls in the latter category.

Quinnipiac, the perfectly mediocre liberal-arts college in New England, has never been short of competitive rivals. However, this might be the year they were than them all. Yale struggled with their strange Halloween email storyline, Wesleyan had another boring year in the middle of nowhere, and the upstart Albertus Magnus was the lowest-rated show of the year. Meanwhile, Quinnipiac repeated their Frozen Four storyline, had a Jamie Lynn Spears/Fetty Wap cameo, and even had a missing girl for 40 minutes!

There were negatives, for sure; the number of scenes where people complain about working at the polling institute could be cut down, Friday nights for non-seniors are very boring, and the city of Hamden versus the school storyline seems like it will never end.

However, Quinnipiac must be commended for it’s incredibly nuanced portrayal of John Lahey. Lahey, who began the show as the clear protagonist, has turned into one of the best villains on television, oozing pure evil whenever he steps onto the screen. Whether he’s firing teachers, taking selfies instead of working, or giving speeches to drunk students about buying people’s houses, the character of John Lahey is always making the morally reprehensible choice – it’s what makes him an iconic character!

If you want to watch the next season of Quinnipiac, prepare to pay up – a yearly subscription to Quinnipiac’s streaming network Bursar costs close to $40,000. Is it worth it? Probably not – I recommend watching Community instead.

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