Superstore (TV Series) Guns, Pills and Birds (2016) User Reviews

The Crow

[safenoe · 8/10 · 30 January 2023]

It's hard to believe Guns, Pills and Birds was screened seven years ago, and it's only recently that I've made Superstore my series to view (and invest my emotional time in!). Anyway, here a crow runs havoc in Cloud 9, and it runs amok for sure, causing anarchy.

Alfred Hitchcock would be proud of this episode for sure.

Michael Douglas would also be proud, because one of the shoppers, who was sacked after 20 years, wants to buy a gun. He is dressed like the Michael Douglas infamous character from Falling Down. Now if Cameron Douglas (son of Michael) had played the shopper, then that would have been meta.

This is my 2nd viewing

[jpapanone · 8/10 · 14 April 2020]

I started off neutral, giving the show the benefit of the doubt. It started off VERY slow...and my expectations rapidly decreased. I can't remember where it got good/watchable, but it may have started to find its niche in season 2, going into season 3.

The things I like about the show are here in this episode... as well as the things I don't like. Damn...I didn't realize how much I really dislike Ferrara's voice and lines. It got on my nerves in later seasons...but it seems it has been there the entire time...it just hadn't bothered me.

Going back and watching a second time...damn. It's been there the whole time.

I don't really take this show seriously, so really nothing it does can offend me. I think the most offensive part of the show in general is... uh...the ideas, most of the dialogue, most of the plots etc.

This offends you as a Jewish person? No, I'm offended as a comedian.

Title: NRA, Freddy Prinze Jr. and cawing

[Br4ve-trave1or · 10/10 · 5 July 2018]

Now, this is hilarious!!!! This is superstores funniest episode so far, mark it: season 2 episode 3! After my last review of the last episode praised it for firing on all cylinders, here comes this episode, Guns, pills, and birds. I cant remember the last time I had so much fun watching TV for 20 minutes!

Fine, maybe it was my latest watch of community but this reminds me that theres still excellent incredible comedy series out there that i have yet to discover. I only just found this series this week and since the middle of season 1 till now I have been loving this show! This has been the year of comedy for me. I discovered community, Brooklyn NINE-NINE (LOVE IT and had 5 seasons to binge), brockmire, and now superstore. All are masterful so far and maybe nothing will compare to the first 2 seasons of community but finding BR99 made me realize that there is a series that exits right now that has a fifth season as good as its first. Superstore now has me dying each episode and it seems I'm watching it just in time for its fourth season coming in August.

Please, if you're thinking about this show, just watch this episode and I guarantee you will watch this show. One of the things I love about Hulu is its feature of playing a shows best episdoe randomly among shows. This one so far is the nominee! 10/10

I will no longer watch this series

[markallenfrost-98338 · 1/10 · 11 January 2017]

This has been one of our most favorite series since it began. We love the comedy, the characters, everything was perfect. Then we watched this episode, the one we missed from the last season, and were completely mystified and disgusted with how they chose to end it. We will no longer watch this show. We are going to boycott it and will tell anyone who cares to listen that they should also boycott it. My wife and I have been having an ongoing conversation about why it is so common for movies and TV programs to contain scenes in which animals are killed. Does it further the plot? Do they do that to satisfy some innate human blood lust in the viewer? We are animal lovers in our house. We love animals of all kinds and do not appreciate seeing them killed on the screen, but especially not in a freaking comedy show.

Astonishingly Bad 'Cause' Episode

[richard.fuller1 · 1/10 · 7 October 2016]

Gun control and birth control were explored in this episode, but in a phenomenally bad and unrealistic way.

In essence, the problem here is the character Jonah, who has a job, but seems to think he is entitled to say what he can and cannot do on the job.

If this were the case, then there are endless teen-agers who would be paid for doing nothing, as they are offended at being told what to do.

Since gun control is a liberal issue, the episode sought to achieve a balance with another character protesting birth control, but in his attempt to control the selling of the morning after drug, he purchases all the pills THEN turns around and must SELL them as he spent too much money on the non-refundable items.

We get nothing like this with the gun control issue. Oh, I have to do my required job, which is sell these guns, or I won't get a paycheck.

Tossed in is an astonishingly ridiculous sub-plot with crows in the store.

In the end, the episode offers no humor (as tho it were lightening these topics) and resolves nothing on either issue, so no point of the entire episode.

Thumbs down.

Worst episode yet.

[kemority · 1/10 · 7 November 2019]

I started watching this show last week. Loved it. And then I find myself suffering through this episode. I get what they were trying to do, but it failed on every level imaginable.

Jonah - do your damn job, or go home without pay. Or quit. Glenn - stop imposing your zealous idea of morality on others. NRA members - owning/carrying a gun is a right. Protesting on private property is not.

Nothing else that happened is worthy enough to even be mentioned. I hope future episodes return to this series' roots.