Smartly, “The Proposal” hides its bigger stories from sight for the majority of the episode, relying on the audience not remembering that the pilot took place on Brody’s 29th birthday, thus serving as the anniversary of when him and Jenny met. Often, the charm in Ground Floor is found in its ability to breathe life into tired sitcom tropes the first part of “The Proposal” is an amalgamation of them, from the spoiled surprise proposal to the extravagant trip for a minor character. It’s debatable whether it needed to use every single second of its 21 minutes to get there though it’s much harder to argue that “Part 1” doesn’t end on an evocative, suspenseful image. However, it has to fill that short journey from point A to B out into 20 minutes of material unsurprisingly, “The Proposal (Part 1)” does that masterfully, able to execute what is essentially half a story, subtly building to a powerful final moment over its closing scenes. As a table-setting episode, part one of Ground Floor‘s season finale really only has to do one thing: get everyone to Vegas, where Mansfield is holding his daughter’s wedding (after his island blew up, and his backup in the Alps was “eaten by the mountain”).
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