Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Daredevil Girl Survives Fall
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 06.15.2009
But she is. She wasn't white and she wasn't a woman and she wasn't the wife and she wasn't a mother. She was the knocked-up puta whore, and he needed her to understand it. Now she does. She doesn't move as he zips up, she doesn't move as he adjusts his tie, she doesn't move as he slaps her ass. Their love began with a spanking; it ends with one too. He vanishes and Cesar enters; she's still tits down on the table, panties around her knees, legs splayed out awkwardly, too stunned and horrified to move. She breathes, but that's all.
In a second, the screen will go black. And over the credits, maybe covered up by the promo for next week, a certain song begins to play. It's by A Camp, which is Nina Persson's band, whom you know from the Cardigans, which you know from their single "Lovefool." And if for some reason you think this is a grey-area, or a date or quasi-marital rape, you might be enlightened by this fact. In a second the screen will go black, and she'll pick up her purse and go with Cesar, and we won't see it. And in that purse, she'll have mascara, and a long drive ahead in which she can apply it. And in the black, they'll play a song, called "Love Has Left The Room," and it goes like this:
Love has left the room
The party is over, but I can't get sober
Obsession is towing me deep down down...
I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you if you will forget me
I'll slip your mind/ I will slip your mind
Tie me to the mast, cast me in iron
I hear the sirens, they sing of desire/ The fatal kind
This love is my last/ My final possession...
This show has always been, in a way and one increasingly critiqued, about the way White Lady orders her men around: Conrad, Andy, Guillermo, Esteban. Even when it got scary, like with Peter or U-Turn, she kept everybody in line with her magical lady powers. She was all cunt, and titties too, and nine times out she was getting loose like Houdini, shaking 'em in one direction so she could run in the other. Calling on Lacey when she couldn't carry it herself, and Lacey would always make it worse, but she'd get a moment to rest at least.
And in a certain cultural configuration that's hardly in line with our elite and intellectual feminist and humanist ideals, motherhood is about the most amazing thing a lady specifically can do. (The way the threats fly in this show, and maybe this is important or maybe not, but what does it say about us that the most important thing women can do that men can't is give birth, while the thing that men are threatening to do that women can't is rape them? I can't remember a tense situation on this show that didn't involve either guns -- an ambisexual threat -- or rape as a component.)