Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: A- | 74 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Silver Linings Playbook
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.10.2013
While Bizzy’s plan for a spread in Voulez isn’t going to work out, she’s still got the ability to force Emily and Victoria to be friends. At their lunch meeting, Aidan comes in right on cue to demand an audience with Emily. Victoria insists Emily go and as Bizzy wrongfully assumes Emily wants Victoria’s approval (come on, she’s not that good of an actress, woman), Bizzy realizes that Emily has more than one ex -- sacre bleu, a late 20-something woman has more than one ex! Never! B tells Victoria about Em’s fake ex-husband as Em, Nolan, and Aidan giggle like giddy schoolgirls in their surveillance Escalade and listen to the whole thing. Too bad none of them know that this is all for naught because it makes no sense and Emily’s romantic hubris is clouding her judgment with regard to Daniel and the Ex.
Luckily, Victoria is experiencing some set-backs herself. She tries to whisper in Daniel’s ear about Aidan and his Emily-facing desires during the Independence Day party, but Daniel tells her to stop reading into everything. She’s disheartened, but not finished. Then Charlotte waves an escape route in front of her face and she barely notices. Charlotte has brought Sarah to the party, but Victoria is furious a poor person is there and can’t resist the urge to fling barbs at Sarah for being born into a family without breeding. Charlotte points out her folly and suggests that pushing Sarah and Daniel to rekindle is the best way to break up his engagement to Emily.
Vicky’s brain wheels start turning, but she still seems to be on the Aidan plan. Of course, when she overhears Emily and Daniel having a civilized conversation about how he’s not jealous of Aidan, she realizes her dear daughter is probably right. That’s all it takes for her to throw Aidan and his steamy, sexy showers out. She sees the parallel to the Independence Day holiday and uses all the references to American History that she can muster to throw her own British collaborator out of her pool house. Someone’s been reading a fifth grade textbook, methinks.
But, this is a Grayson party, so there must be some sabotage actually working out somewhere. Nolan satiates our desires by re-friending Bizzy. She then follows Nolan around the party like a drunk gnat until she needs his reading glasses to look at the texts on her phone. Nolan hands her is Google Glass by Tom Ford (or something fashionable and technological that we’re too bourgeois to understand) pair of spy specs. That’s how he gets her iPhone password and the ability to hack into all of her texts and emails remotely, only he finds more than he bargained for. Not only does he have all the dirty little secrets he’ll need to turn her clients against her, he’s also found that she’s cheating on her sweet, normal husband Jeff. That’s a bingo, ladies and gents.