As it continues to shatter the fourth wall, it continues to blur the line between where fiction ends and reality begins. Dispatches From Elsewhere Episode 10, despite insisting that its characters couldn’t be us, nonetheless allows us to recognize that the advice they give each other, the lessons they learn, are also applicable to our own lives. So often as viewers we look for ourselves in the stories we consume, but so rarely we find them. It’s an unsettling thing to be addressed directly by a television show.
But the Dispatches From Elsewhere finale is also careful to assure us that we can do that without losing our connections, our aspirations, or our sense of wonder. As “The Boy” gradually reveals itself and the rest of the first season to have been more specifically about Segel’s life than we thought, it becomes even more relatable as an instruction to grow up and take responsibilities for ourselves and our lives. Our own individuality has always been central to Dispatches From Elsewhere a reminder that our pain is genuine, our hopes and fears are all valid, and that we are special – Peter was brought to tears when Octavio told him that in the first episode, but it took him the entire season to believe it. Grant) insistence that each of these people could have been us, which it turns out was a lie since nobody but us can really be us, we take the point, even if we’re happy to still see ourselves in these diverse players of an elaborate game. The versions of Simone (Eve Lindley), Janice (Sally Field), and Fredwynn (André Benjamin) are slightly different from their counterparts that we’ve come to know over the last ten weeks, but not so much that you wouldn’t recognize them. The Dispatches From Elsewhere finale tells, at least in part, the story of the clown-faced boy who is really his character, Peter but the essential reveal of Dispatches From Elsewhere Episode 10 is that Peter is Jason Segel playing a version of himself in recovery from alcohol addiction. Jason Segel was never who he pretended to be either.
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