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It breaks my heart that an episode of TV spotlighting two Tony Awardwinning musical-theater icons is so bland.

Its a tiff that spotlights Melissas stubbornness and the ways she rationalizes her thinking when shes wrong.
Its unclear what were supposed to take away from this flashback.
Is this an example of Melissa and Josh overcoming some sort of challenge together?
Id still rather have this complicated ambiguity than the emptiness of their new relationships in Schmigadoon.
But it never reaches that point.
After being abandoned by the countess, Melissa finds herself lost and alone on the outskirts of town.