Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: A- | 68 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Silver Linings Playbook
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.10.2013
At the same time, Jack is going on his own good will press tour, visiting Margaux at the Voulez offices to trick us into thinking he’s still got a flame for Emily. While he gazes at the editorial board full of engagement photos of Daniel and Emily, Margaux finds him so he can reveal his true purpose: handing her some macaroons (get it? Because they’re French and she’s French) and asking her on a date. When they do finally get to the date – a romantic evening on Jack’s charming Mumford and Sons-inspired rooftop that he suddenly has now that his boat is gone – they watch cartoons, they giggle, and then they kiss, but this makes Jack very uncomfortable. He asks her if she wants a drink, she replies that she doesn’t but some rooftop nookie would be nice. Jack refuses to acknowledge the Voulez (-vous coucher avec moi ce soir) in her eyes, so she leaves rather indignantly and Jack mopes.
While Jack is clearly working through old feelings for his dead wife, Amanda, Daniel is working through his feelings for his very alive ex-girlfriend, Sarah. Without realizing what he’s doing, Daniel visits Sarah at the Stowaway to ask her to make the cake for his wedding. She thinks it’s weird, but he doesn’t seem to see the issue, because as always, he’s completely blind to everything happening in and around his head.
And because she has no idea about the Sarah issue, Victoria replaces her Jack attack with Aidan, who she asks him to seduce Emily and ruin her engagement to Daniel. Seeing no issue with Sarah coming back into Daniel’s life, Aidan and Ems ignore the tough problem and focus on the one they can control: when and where Emily and Aidan have their jealousy-inducing chat without actually making Daniel jealous.
Emily, satisfied with her plan, continues to miss every longing glance Daniel sends Sarah’s way as she bakes them wedding cake samples in her Betty Crocker apron. Noticing that Sarah hates Victoria too, Emily is more than happy to hire her, so she kisses Daniel goodbye and runs off so the two exes can make googly eyes at each other while she’s gone.
At the Voulez offices, where Margaux is clearly the only one who’s ever actually at work, Conrad is doing his best to intimidate Margaux into a PR fluff piece about the Graysons’ return to glory. She rightly tells him there’s a difference between a society piece and bus ad slapped on the back of the Hamptons Jitney. If he’s willing to tell her an unknown, true story, then she’ll listen. He’s not, so he leaves and Margaux stews with her ever-present sideways smirk.