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“Fucked-up people are good at helping fucked-up people.” Leave it to Paul to distill this show’s main theme so eloquently.

There’s a concrete goal to work toward this time: He really wants to attend his best buddy Stan’s wedding tomorrow but just doesn’t know how he can bear to sit alone at a table of strangers. The scene when the two girls make up is nice, but the episode saves with the biggest Alice-and-Jimmy development for the end: Jimmy spots his daughter at a restaurant with Brian and Louis, seemingly only minutes after they agreed to tell him they’ve been hanging out. At the microbrewery, Mac mounts a full-court press, presenting Liz’s hung-up dog photos and telling her how cool and funny and talented she is.

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