Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 114 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Hell is Empty
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 08.27.2013
Emily: "Bring it! Maybe then she'll leave our parents alone."Spencer: "Or did she just declare... #WorldWarA?"
Meanwhile at the station, Travis stares at all the ladies in the lineup, but doesn't identify Ashley right away.
THE TEMPEST
Ezra gives the class a thinly veiled speech about how what The Tempest* is really about is how it's cool for high school teachers to fuck children, and then asks Aria to stay behind when class is over.
Ezra: "A lot of scholars are too afraid of that revolutionary interpretation, but one day I'll publish. One of these days, God damn it. Anyway, thanks for coming over the other night. I really needed to offload my immense baggage on somebody because I am a gaping pit of need and you're just a child so you don't know the difference."
Aria: "I was happy to hold your hand through your made-up tantrum. As a friend."
*Aeriél Miranda is the name of the actress who plays Shana -- boo, hiss -- which makes for a weird moment when her name pops up in the middle of this scene. Like it's a sneaky trick of the show so we won't know that so-and-so is back from the dead or whatever. But, nope, just a neat, pretty girl with a relatively thankless job.
Well, and I guess I can see him drawing the parallel: most of the story is Prospero basically putting the dude through his paces because he doesn't want him to have his daughter and/or to prove himself worthy of the daughter, manipulating time and space with arrogance, which is: Ezra's life and career as determined by Byron Montgomery. So it's actually a fairly great way to spin Ezra's perspective on everything. Well done.
Aria: "Hey, Jake! I was just not thinking of you. We still on for tonight?"
Jake: "Sure, baby."
Aria: "There's a contemporary poetry reading at the Br..."
Jake: (Click.)
Aria: "Dinner and a movie and actually interacting with each other it is. Man, I miss going to poetry readings with Ezra and other horrible activities of similar character."
RWPDHQ
Ashley watches Caleb mutely caressing Hanna's hair in the station, and marvels at how boring teenagers in love can actually be, but also, how darling.
Ashley: "Thanks for taking care of Hanna while I've been in jail."
Caleb: "This whole thing sucks, Mrs. Marin. And can I just say, you are a fucking champ. It explains a lot about Hanna's greatness. Good job not breaking into a million pieces."