The Simpsons Season 28: 7 Things It's Got Right (So Far)
5. Going To Boston
The Simpsons are going to Delaware! Wait, no that was done. This season, they went to the exotic locale of... Boston.
Of all the places The Simpsons have been, how Boston was missed is rather mystifying. After all, it's one of the most iconic American cities, and the family has already been to Hollywood, New York, and all around the globe.
So Boston was overdue, something corrected in The Town, a nod to the Ben Affleck film of the same name. Smartly programmed to air the same night as Tom Brady's return to the NFL, The Town could have simply been an overly long jab at the New England Patriots. Instead, it was a better than average episode that saw Homer take up candlepin bowling (the third ball being one more than he's used to), Marge fall in love with Boston, pretty much the whole family enjoy the city except Bart, and the Springfield Atoms football team (the answer to baseball's Isotopes).
Importantly, for once, the city was central to the story, something that hasn't really happened in recent seasons of The Simpsons for a while. Past visits to New York and Tokyo made the locations the stars, but that hasn't happened in a while (see: The Simpsons go to Toronto, where they only show up in the city during the last segment of the episode).