Episode Report Card Maggie: D | 1144 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Sophomoric
By Maggie | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 1999.09.26
Julie appears to be trying to read while her twin roommates, with their not-quite-identical pink tops and cut-off shorts, have their pompons at the ready and they begin to cheer in unison, "Okay, we're the Hartford Dingoes/while we're steppin' n' stuff/we know we're number one, we're gonna stay a while/we're the Hartford Dingoes/we always keep our cool/we'll always conquer your team/when they take us in a duel/I said, hey we got the power/it's boiling hot/we're gonna rock steady/until we almost drop." To that display, Julie says, "That was great. Excuse me. I'm moving out." The twins look saddened at the prospect.
Felicity shows up at the loft and is greeted warmly by Sean. He asks if she's there for Ben and she says yes and then asks if he is there. Before Sean can answer, Julie saunters out of a room and says, "nope." Sean explains that Javier called Ben into work. Sean wanders away as Felicity looks stricken. Julie unpacks some stuff and Felicity says, "Hey, what's going on?" Julie ever so smugly tells Felicity that she's "moving in for a while," and then asks, "what's up with you?" Felicity says "nothing" so Julie says, "okay" and she walks away. In my world, there are two definitions of the word smugly: the traditional one and the one that is the combination of "some" and "ugly." Both meanings apply to Julie's behaviour in this scene.
Over at Dean & DeLuca, Ben says from behind the counter, "She's movin' in?" Felicity says, "Yeah, she said she's moving in for a while. Sean didn't mention it?" Ben looks away and says, "No, he asked me what I thought about it, but he didn't say he was going to do it." Felicity asks him what he thinks about it and he says he doesn't care. She says that he has to care and he swears to god that he doesn't care. Javier interrupts them to ask Ben to get back to work. They continue to talk about how it doesn't matter that Julie is moving into the loft, but that it is weird, just the same. Ben mentions that there is something he wants to tell Felicity and Javier comes back to say to Ben, "Guess what, love is blind but my customers are not -- well, most of them. So, I need you to earn your wage, okay?" To Felicity he says, "Nice top, I like that" and he walks away. Ben and Felicity make plans to get together that night, and Javier yells at Ben, "Benjameen!"
Felicity is back in her room dictating a tape to Sally and telling her that Ben wants to tell her something. She wonders if he wants to break up in one breath and declares that it's likely nothing, in the next breath. She vows not to over-think it, but to just go out and have fun. As if, Felicity. You not over-analysing would be like asking Knoll not to flare his Knollstrils.