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Only two of those spots remain unclaimed, but that hardly makes this Decision Day anticlimactic.

It will feel anticlimactic, and for good reason.

After weeks of preparing myself for the emotions of “the last first day,” the start of my youngest child’s senior year was distinctly anticlimactic.

But a show that tells its story over eight or 10 episodes, just to fill that space, can go off the rails with unnecessary side plots or flashbacks or anticlimactic pacing.

The ending, in which a male dancer is gradually abandoned by the others, feels a little anticlimactic.