All American: Homecoming: Simone and Lando grow closer in season three's bubble episode

As All American: Homecoming comes closer to its series finale, "Have You Seen Her?" offers a bubble episode, with Simone, Lando, and JR acting as the only members of the main cast to make an appearance, and with JR only appearing in two scenes.

JR's role is the episode is fairly quick and specific, meant to write him out of a majority of the storyline with the reasoning that he is unable to take Simone to her appointment but was able to find a replacement.

Simone immediately realizes that JR has sent Lando in his place, and thus, the rest of the episode is entirely reliant on Simone and Lando needing to carry the episode's events without any other series regulars or even significant guest stars to help carry the load.

With the events of the episode placed entirely on their shoulders, All American: Homecoming works to portray how Simone and Lando have rebuilt their friendship and help each other through difficult emotional aspects of their lives, such as Simone feeling physically undesirable and Lando's discouragement toward his future in photography.

Without the rest of the main cast being present, there are no distractions at play, such as whatever platonic or potentially romantic budding struggle that JR and Keisha may have triggered with their respective partners by growing a little too close to each other.

Instead, All American: Homecoming offers a more in-depth look at how Simone and Lando, just portrayed in a platonic friendship, highlight their emotional connection as they help each other see the potential and beauty in the other.

There is certainly a chance of this duo's friendship growing back into a romance, and if anything, "Have You Seen Her?" may be a decent argument for why it could work to bring them back together by the season's conclusion. However, it is also important to reference how this bubble episode does not rely heavily on romance, choosing instead to focus on how Simone and Lando act as two people with a connection, regardless of it is platonic or romantic.

There have been moments where the show's main found family dynamic has lacked the chemistry to feel like a strong united front, no matter how much the dialouge may try to argue otherwise. But, Simone and Lando's connection is a dynamic that offers a more organic approach to how even taking a year apart from each other can still result in determining that they are better off with the other in their lives.

Simone's cancer storyline has been a particularly controversial one, especially as All American: Homecoming seems to insist on putting Simone in some sort of struggling circumstance rather than focusing on her growth as an athlete on the tennis court.

Season three, so far, has all but completely ignored Simone's tennis dreams, choosing to verbally reference them but never offering Simone the same focus playing the sport or the seriousness surrounding going professional as All American offered Spencer or that All American: Homecoming portrayed for Damon.

All American: Homecoming may not have enough time left in its run to fix some of these problems, and "Have You Seen Her?" may not have done much to push the show's full narrative forward, but it did do a few crucial things, such as deepen the connection between Simone and Lando and finally have Simone's mother learn the truth about her diagnosis.