Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B- | 160 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Back To School
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.03.2013
Event O' the Week. Matt Presents the Mayor (Bonnie's Interim Dad) with a beer and says it's on the house. Can 18 year olds serve alcohol? Oh wait, this is a town event in Mystic Falls, where the kids advertise keggers, right in school. Matt asks when Bonnie's coming back. Being the Interim Dad that he is, he asks Matt to say, "Hi," to Bonnie, should he talk to her. My word. Remember when we thought Jenna was a crappy guardian? She was a fricking helicopter parent, next to this guy. Just then, Matt spots Nadia. For a moment, she looks like a Charlie's Angels era Kate Jackson, doesn't she? Oddly enough, in her first scene with Matt and Rebekah, I thought for a second that she looked like Kristen Stewart, and Kate and Kristen really don't resemble each other, so now I have no idea what this woman actually looks like.
Matt follows Nadia to an alley. She seems surprised that he remembers her, and now she looks like Elena. For crying out loud, lady, get your own face. Oh good. There it is. After Matt gives Nadia deserving guff for ripping him off, she produces the ring. He's skeptical that she flew all this way just to return something she stole from him, but when she starts to put the ring back in her pocket, he grabs her hand. Nadia slips the ring on his finger in a slow, seductive move, but it's only to distract Matt from the fact that her partner, Gregor (Hans Obma) is sneaking up behind him. Gregor grabs Matt's head and I think he's going to snap his neck, but instead he speaks casts as spell (in a foreign language), that turns Matt's eyes totally black, like he's a demon on Supernatural. When his eyes revert to normal, Matt's collapses. We cut to...
Whitmore College. Dorm. Caroline deletes Elena's message to Megan, which just reminds me of the contrivance I'd been trying to forget. As they approach their room, the girls notice their door is ajar. Megan's tablet is missing, too. Elena takes Megan's phone and looks through the pictures as Caroline regurgitates the Megan plot so far. I'll spare you. The whole point of this scene is coming up, now. While snooping in Megan's phone, Elena finds a picture of Megan, with her dad -- not Megan's dad -- Elena's dad, well, not her bio dad, Uncle Daddy, the father that raised her -- the Chekov's Gun that Liz pulled out when she left the girls at school -- Dr. Grayson Gilbert. Typically, Elena says, "Whatever's going on, it's not just about our roommate. It's about me." Oh girl, aside from not realizing your best friend has been dead for months and your ex has been missing, you were doing pretty well with the self-involvement this episode. Please don't backslide like this again. We cut to the...Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Next