For a sports family in the workplace comedy, Running Point sure knows how to deliver a dramatic cliffhanger ending. In some ways, the season 2 finale of Running Point was similar to the first. Both seasons ended with championship game and Cam Gordon (Justin Theroux) pulling some nonsense that sabotages his sister Isla (Kate Hudson). But the specifics could not be more different.
In the second season, Isla dealt with Cam’s return from rehab and the complete dissolution of her engagement to Lev (Max Greenfield) on top of trying to lead her NBA team to the playoffs and beyond.
The other Gordon siblings officially oust Cam from the Waves.
Running Point season 2’s penultimate episode ended with Cam officially announcing that he wanted his old job back and Isla out as President of the Waves. However, when he arrived at the office his siblings confronted him about using company money to pay off his rehab and Jackie’s (Fabrizio Guido) urine to bypass his mandatory drug tests. They can’t have an embezzling, bribing, drug addict in charge of the team. They inform the board of directors, summarily fire him, and Isla gets back to business.
Jackie and Sofia may be on a break…
Isla encourages her kid half-brother to join her middle brother Ness (Scott MacArthur) and best friend/coworker Ali (Brenda Song) on a recruiting trip in Europe during the off-season. He was planning on accompanying his dancer girlfriend to Washington D.C. and just hanging out while she completed her internship. Isla tells her not to be “the girl who didn’t go to Paris” like a friend of hers. Jackie realizes that she’s referencing LC on The Hills, which Isla admits is true because Lauren Conrad is her actual friend—easily one of the best jokes in the second season. At the end of the episode, Jackie tells Isla that he’s going to Europe, but Sofia wasn’t too happy with his decision. Hopefully they can work things out in season 3.
Speaking of romance and/or the Europe recruiting trip, is anyone else picking up on the potential sparks between Ness and Ali? Sandy (Drew Tarver) surely was. What is going on?!
LA Waves win the friggin’ championship!!!!!!
The team beat Boston, their biggest rival which happens to be coached by Isla’s secret lover Jay Brown, played by Jay Ellis. (Oddly specific same-but-different Heated Rivalry deja vu, anyone?) Even Marcus’ worsening health conditions can’t keep them from that ring.
Cam, Al, and Jay teamed up against everybody??
Isla and her siblings wake up, hungover after a well-deserved night of celebrating, to some truly diabolical news. They learn that Cam is bringing an old NBA franchise back to the City of Angels called the LA Industry. If he can’t run the Waves, he’s doing to destroy them. Cam will be the Industry president, Al Fleischman, the self-appointed “toilet king of Orange County” will be the owner, and Jay is coming on to coach. The evil dream team, with their evil monosyllabic first names, will be the Waves biggest competition.
We can only hope that Isla dumps Jay after a betrayal like that. Maybe she’ll start dating the owner of the NHL team who shares her arena, Luke McShay (Scott Speedman), who also happens to be from a rival sports family. (Again… the oddly specific, same-but-different Heated Rivalry deja vu is strong for a show that went into production last summer. Maybe it’s a me problem. Or maybe, as I have always suspected, all sports are the same.)
That said, we can assume that, if and when Running Point returns for a third season, Jay and Cam will poach some of the Waves players. He might try to tempt some of his siblings, or maybe Cousin Bennie (Ike Barinholtz) over to the Industry side as well. This is still a comedy, but after that finale things could get very messy very fast.
