Boys Meet Shangri-La and the Death of the Utopia

As Boys Meets World continues its strange march into the series finale, so too are we following like the lemmings we are. (In reality, lemmings do not actually all throw themselves to their deaths, that we nature documentarians trying to make things more exciting for the viewers at home (capitalism baby!) but I digress.)This week, we watch possibly the strangest episode of Boy Meets World since Cory thought he was turning into a werewolf in a thinly veiled allegory for puberty I guess, with "As Time Goes By". It is a tribute to noir and hard boiled detectives and an examination of the very concept of the utopia and how easy it is for it all to come crashing down. Or maybe the writers ran out of ideas and are scrambling, it is hard to tell. Either way, its a fun time.