Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 38 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Your Body Will Know
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.07.2014
I mean, there's more wiggle room with ladies and I realize that, but as a gay dude whose life changed utterly when I decided to only hook up with actual other gay dudes from here on out, I can tell you that things are both much simpler and much more complicated than you think. There are a million ways to love and be loved, but only a very few that last, or make you feel better and not worse in the end. The ones that tell you what kind of American you are, we could say.
And by the same token, I realize I can keep saying that for the rest of time and you'll either get it or not -- there's an actual physiological brain change in your twenties that is about accepting consequence and the hard truths of certain things, and there's nothing you can do to hasten that, which is why crazy stupid love is a young kid's game -- so I'm glad the show did it better than I can: I wish somebody'd told me, and I think I worked it out better than most.
HANNA GOES NUTS!
She climbs all over Caleb like a housecat, trying to distract him and then just saying girl things -- "Your watch is broken! Take me with you! I will follow you then!" -- and slams the door every time he opens it, and we finally get down to the plot of things:
Hanna: "Is this about Miranda?"
Caleb: "Not exactly? Not like you think, because the truth is not something you have the capacity to think or understand?"
Hanna: "I GAVE her to you. She is a subset of our thing, not..."
Caleb: "That's true! This is still part of that!"
Hanna: "Fucking A."
Caleb: "Stop slamming the door, it's making you look crazy."
Hanna: "I am crazy! I live in a strange weird world where nothing is as it seems. I can count on my mom -- most of the time -- and my girls -- most of the time -- and you. That's it. Everything else moves around. And now you're telling me that the truth is not something you can tell me. On the worst day for you to pull that shit. I will keep slamming it, and be the most annoying girlfriend of all time, and force you to scream at me, and act a mess. Not because it's flattering or super cool, but because it is the option I have."
Caleb: "You are not stupid or crazy and everything that you're saying feels true but is not technically true because what is happening, I literally can't tell you. No fun for me either. It is possibly worse, actually, not that that helps."