Superstore
Essential
TV Flash files “Essential” as a desk essential hour — Superstore (2015–2021) on NBC, season 6, episode 1, aired 2020-10-29, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 98 of 112 in the Superstore guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 2020-10-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “California Part 1” (S05E21). Next is “California Part 2” (S06E02).
Essential hour: “Essential”. Essential opens the pandemic season: clipboard tyranny as the era's joke, fluorescent truth still the lighting.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After the coronavirus hits, Amy and Jonah try to bring some order to the chaos in Cloud 9 while being pulled in multiple directions. The employees learn what it means to be considered "heroes" while Amy and Jonah's impending move to California looms large.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Essential sit in the Superstore guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 98 of 112 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did Superstore S06E01 air?
Essential aired 2020-10-29 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is it still good after America Ferrera leaves?
Ensemble depth kept it strong after cast changes, including Ferrera's exit. The floor crew is the show; Amy is a center, not the only aisle.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Cloud 9 fluorescent truth: America Ferrera's Amy, Jonah's idealism, Dina's clipboard tyranny, and episodes that smuggle strikes and ICE raids into NBC workplace farce. Class teeth under sitcom color — the stealth-best network ensemble, still funny after the exits, still honest about who stocks the American aisle.
NBC did not hide labor in a Very Special Friday. **2015–2021**, six seasons, one hundred twelve hours: Justin Spitzer's Cloud 9 fluorescent truth — America Ferrera's Amy, Ben Feldman's Jonah, Lauren Ash's Dina and the clipboard tyranny, Nico Santos's Mateo, Colton Dunn's Garrett, Nichole Bloom's Cheyenne. Employees of a mega-retail store juggling romances, corporate nonsense, and real economic precarity. Bright sitcom colors, sharp class teeth. Episodes smuggle strikes and ICE raids into floor-shift farce. Rex…
Filed against
- America Ferrera as Amy Sosa
America Ferrera’s Betty Suarez outworked Ugly Betty’s fashion closet until braces became a protagonist — 2000s catalog telenovela energy on ABC, then Superstore smuggling class teeth into fluorescent NBC farce. TV Flash files her as the…
- Ben Feldman as Jonah Simms
Ben Feldman’s Jonah Simms brought Superstore its fluorescent idealism — Cloud 9 truth, America Ferrera’s Amy, Dina’s clipboard tyranny, episodes that smuggle strikes and ICE raids into NBC workplace farce. Class teeth under sitcom color.…
- Lauren Ash as Dina Fox
Lauren Ash's Dina Fox ran Superstore like clipboard tyranny with a pulse — Cloud 9 fluorescent truth, America Ferrera's Amy, Jonah's idealism, NBC workplace farce that smuggled strikes and ICE raids under sitcom color. TV Flash tracks her…
- Nico Santos as Mateo Liwanag
Nico Santos’s Mateo Liwanag gave Superstore’s Cloud 9 a floor that could smuggle ICE into a joke — 2010s NBC workplace farce, America Ferrera’s Amy, Jonah’s idealism, Dina’s clipboard, class teeth under sitcom color. TV Flash files him as…
- Colton Dunn as Garrett McNeill
Colton Dunn played Garrett McNeill on Superstore — Cloud 9 fluorescent truth, America Ferrera's Amy, Jonah's idealism, Dina's clipboard tyranny, episodes that smuggle strikes and ICE raids into NBC workplace farce. Class teeth under…
- Nichole Bloom as Cheyenne Lee
Nichole Bloom’s Cheyenne Lee kept Superstore’s Cloud 9 fluorescent truth from becoming only Amy and Jonah’s will-they — 2010s NBC workplace farce, Dina’s clipboard tyranny, strikes and ICE raids smuggled into sitcom color. TV Flash files…