I love a monologue declaring romantic feelings soooo much, BUT the writers for Superstore having Amy ask Jonah why the hell he's stuck with working retail longer than he's ever committed to anything in his life before, and Jonah just saying, "Why do you think, Amy?" instead of going on a whole spiel was SO GOOD.
Obviously we as viewers can infer the whole inner monologue based on that, we know that he could tell her that he still loves her, and that even when she wasn't working in the store anymore he stayed because it was a reminder of her etc. etc., but we don't hear him say it out loud. Instead we get straight to Amy's reaction, knowing that she already knows damn well that Jonah still has feelings for her, and stayed in his shit-ass retail job because it was the one thing still slightly connecting them, and it just hits so much better like that.
I've watched the show through 3 times now, and I still tear up at this point because you just get the sense that Jonah is so defeated by his own feelings for her that he, the king of generally unnecessary monologues and poetic verbal bullshit, can't even form the proper words to explain how heartbroken he still is, when to him she seems fine and happy in her nice job without him and just moved on with no problem, even though it actually was really freaking hard for her too.
They say hardly anything in this scene but the things they do say are so carefully chosen to evoke all the emotion and aaahhhhhhh it's just such good writing (and acting) and I love it.
