Episode Report Card Demian: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shannen sings!
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 24 | Aired on 01.19.1997
Anyway, as the two shriek their way into that second verse, we get a cross-fade to Chloë’s room at House Delta. Carefully, so as not to be seen by her suitemates, she uses an Exacto knife to extract Shannen’s head from one of the photos she had taken of Shannen and Simon dancing at the Sweetheart ceremony. I become reacquainted with the tense violin, which I suspect will be putting in for overtime long before this movie is over. Once Chloë’s popped Shannen’s head out of the image, she raises the picture up in front of her eyes. We get an "Oooh! Spooky! Not!" shot of Chloë’s left eye through the hole. Chloë hears Shannen out in the hall and stashes the marred print away in a binder. Shannen’s chatting with Paige, who amuses me to no end with the following monologue: "So, like, once a week she smears her hair with mayo and reeks while I’m, like, gagging, and she’s all, ‘Don’t I have the right to condition my hair?’ and I’m, like, ‘Don’t I have the right to hate mayonnaise?’" Paige then flips her ponytail around and leaves. Hee! Goddamn, this thing would have been a lot better with more Paige. Sly Chloë, meanwhile, has taken this opportunity to hum "Don’t Be" loudly while pacing in the open doorway to her suite. From behind a computer monitor in the suite, one of Chloë’s roommates glares at her. Snerk. Shannen watches Chloë for a moment, then sets her jaw. She walks over and asks Chloë if they can chat for a bit. Chloë’s all deceptively apologetic, but Shannen tells her to cram it. She wants Chloë to join the band as a backup singer. Chloë pretends not to be interested. Shannen insists. Chloë caves -- almost reluctantly -- then allows a slight squeal of delight. Shannen joins in on the squealing, and we finally fade to the first commercial break. Back from the break, Shannen and Chloë are upstairs at Club Rendez-vous with the rest of the band, doing some last-minute prep before Chloë’s début. Shannen instructs her to ditch the glasses and the baggy shirt. Chloë’s still a little tense, so Shannen lends her the musical-notes pendant for "good luck." Bad Shannen. Never surrender your good-luck totem to your antagonist. Did something similar happen with Alyssa? We may never know. Nick, The Silently Soulful Little Drummer Boy, has been watching this exchange and rises to his feet in thinly-veiled disgust. Sammy and Simon ask him what’s wrong. Nick -- soul of brevity that he is -- replies simply, "There’s something about her," and stalks off, bringing the total number of words he’s uttered thus far to seven. Simon dismisses Nick’s concern as "paranoid." Abrupt cut to Nick onstage, tapping out the preliminary beat with his drumsticks. Shannen and The Boys launch into "Don’t Be" with the visibly-nervous Chloë off to the side a bit, waiting for her cue. As Shannen gets closer to the chorus, The Slow-Motion Pan Of Imminent Failure slides across Chloë’s face, and Chloë has a series of blue-washed flashbacks to the SoCal Youth Talent Show Of Doom. She blows the harmonies on her first run through the chorus. The Boys eye each other warily as Shannen silently mouths something resembling "Buck up, little camper!" in Chloë’s direction. Chloë flashes on Little Nancy Kerrigan telling her, "You can do it," and regains her composure. Next thing you know, she’s right by Shannen’s side as the two wail their way through the rest of the song. Shannen really needs to stop pronouncing "anymore" as "innymore." It’s driving me nuts.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25Next