The Conners Season 5 Needs To Fix Harris’s Story

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Harris had a rough time in The Connersseason 4, but season 5 can allow the sitcom to fix this issue. Harris’s story in The Conners season 4 was a perfect example of a common sitcom problem in action. While the plot of her dating an older man, fighting with her mother over the choice, moving in with him, getting engaged, and eventually breaking up wasn’t too depressing in one-week installments, it was a pretty bleak and pointless story once the season wrapped up and viewers could look back on it as a whole.

Harris’s break-up with Aldo provided the saddest moment in The Conners season 4 finale, even though the scene was necessary for the character’s growth. However, seeing Harris get put through the wringer wasn’t a fun time for the sitcom’s viewers, and The Conners owes the supporting star a more stable season 5. While it shouldn’t be smooth sailing for Harris inThe Conners season 5, her character arc also shouldn’t be a slow-motion train wreck like her season 4 story.

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Harris’s ill-considered relationship with Aldo was believable but grim, and its surprisingly slow dissolution was too slow and dark for The Conners upon a rewatch. In season 5, Harris needs a more proactive storyline with a quicker pace that doesn’t leave her saddled with dead weight and in stagnant conflict with the family for weeks at a time. Aldo and his father, Jesse, provided solid laughs inThe Conners season 4, but seeing Harris repeatedly fail to realize the mistake she made by doubling down on the relationship in agonizingly slow weekly increments was too enervating for the high-energy antics of The Conners. Season 5 should fix this by giving her a story with conflict that