Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Swingin' Around At Nothing
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 06.28.2011
Oh, Emily. Oh, girl!
Whew. Awesomely, she rips up the fake letter. I knew the bodysnatchers wouldn't have her for long.
EVERYBODY ELSE IS STILL DOING THE WORST THINGS THOUGH
Spencer drives up in the truck, looking bad-ass of course and setting all the ladies' hearts aflutter, and gives Toby the keys. They make out. She has ruined them and doesn't know it yet. Oh, Spencer.
Hanna watches her parents giggle and drink bottle after bottle of wine, and then deletes an apologetic text from Isabel. Oh, Hanna!
All that's left is for Aria to fuck things up with Jenna, right?
OH YEAH
Jenna: "Anita, could you put my pottery on that shelf and clean up my area? In some ways pottery is a good idea for me because it's tactile. On the other hand, I break shit. Oh, by the way my eyesight is coming back or something. Light this candle so I can sort of see what my beautiful pottery looks like. And if you could not blow me up, that would rock."
It is super tense and goes on and on forever. Anita silently lights the candle and puts it in the beautiful pottery, and then turns the lights off so Jenna can see it looking amazing. She spins it around, because what is Jenna if not atmospherically creepy, and suddenly we're learning the origin of Vampire Slayers. But I don't really think she can see it all that well. The audacity of hope. The audacity of a poor blowed-up blind incest-raping potter.
Right before she blows out the candle -- still wearing her giant sunglasses, I guess because of vanity? -- she looks Aria in the eye and tells a seriously sad story, because she still can't see the light.
Jenna, starting to cry: "Sometimes I liked to swim to the bottom of a lake and look up at the sunlight on the water, and it was so beautiful. That's what I wanted this to look like."
Anita stares, crying along with her, and promises her that's exactly what it looks like.
Anita: "[Keeps talking juuuuust long enough for Jenna to recognize her.]"
Jenna: "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"
Aria: "...Yeah. Sorry."
Jenna: "Bitch, blow out that candle right now."
Aria finds a new use for her shushing powers, and the room goes dark.
That was awesome. That was one of the best scenes ever on this show. It's so harsh! You got Jenna opening up, and Aria this close to getting on her side, but then the nice thing contains its own seeds of destruction because Jenna showed her ass in front of the enemy. That Aria was using Anita to get closer to her, and ended up just pushing her further away by acting sketchy and, to Jenna's eyes, making fun of her.