Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 66 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Life Is Real Only Then, When I Am
By Jacob | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2008.08.18
After God knows how long Dean's been bitching and moaning about what a bitch and failure and complete destroyer of worlds Celia is, she responds with the only possible reaction worth anything, grabbing him by the necktie and slamming his against the bed. Then comes the gospel.
"How dare any of you judge me? You! [Dean] You, with your low testosterone, hump-shouldered victim shit! You are the reason I started drinking in the first place. And you! [Isabelle] You and your sister sucked me dry! Want! Need! Demand! A constant drain! Who could resist a little capsule-shaped escape? And you! [Pam] I don't even know why you're here. You're my bitch, I use you, and you're too stupid to realize it. So ..." Pam protests that she does realize it, she just doesn't care: will Celia still be fun when she's sober? Honey, Celia's fun under all circumstances, including becoming a jailhouse chola. It's going to be fine.
The interventionist hands the reins to Isabelle, who reminds her of everything she did -- the laxatives, Tae Bo and whatever -- and how it connects to Celia's own horrifically abusive mother, and then takes it even further: even the horrible parenting abuses of the first two seasons were preferable to her total junkie zombie bullshit lifestyle now. But the kicker? "If you don't deal with this, I will call your mother." Celia drops the fork she was using as a makeshift shiv; needless to say it lands in Dean, who's been on the floor since she bashed his head in.
The unconventional medicine? Ayahuasca. Esteban explains that peyote is a bicycle and this is a rocketship: ten years of psychotherapy in a single night. Great, so Nancy can just do ayahuasca an infinite number of times, because that's how much therapy she needs: ten times infinity. There's a lot of chanting and this particularly hot shaman guy Kucho is all about giving her the tea, but then the tea doesn't want her to have it, but they figure out that the tea just doesn't want Kucho to give it to her, but Esteban can. Whatever, drugs are dumb and make you have conversations about nothing.
Finally it's time to trip. There's Kucho and some girl elsewhere, while Nancy and Esteban wriggle around and weep and sweat on the floor. Her pupils glow white and she barfs in a bucket. I was kind of hoping it would be more ... Oh, there we go. Subjective. Kucho suddenly starts speaking English, while Nancy thinks about the girl: