Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Who's a Bad Mama Jamma?
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.28.2002
Wendy Kroy: The fuck?
Regina: Is Agent Sean dead, or what?
Wendy Kroy: Fuck Agent Sean. Dr. Nancy just LETS HER IN? I have to book three weeks in advance for my damn appointments and I see the woman more than my own MOTHER!
Regina: Look. The show's almost over. Can we just move on?
Wendy Kroy: No, we cannot. I am PISSED.
Regina: It's a TELEVISION SHOW, Wendy! Bring it down a notch! And no more scotch and nightshade for you, okay?
Wendy Kroy: Enrique! ENRIQUE! Bring Daddy a weapon of mass destruction! The television set is going DOWN!
Regina: Hello, 911? Yeah. I'm gonna need LOTS of back up.
"You're eulogizing the bastard's wife?" asks Will, sitting on Syd's bed while she's getting ready. "The devil's wife. The guy who had Danny killed. The guy who wanted to kill me." Syd's all, dude? Uncle Arvin's the baddy, not Auntie Em. Cut the dead woman some slack, okay? Syd slaps some pancake on and rushes out to seek Will's opinion of the bruise-covering. I'll say it again, I'm digging it that Syd and Will get to be all honest with each other now. It's so…cute with an edge of danger, ya know?
Will assures her it looks fine and makes a comment about how lying all the time must be killing her inside. Syd says something about how she was sorry that Will had to find out the truth about her, but she was also selfishly relieved because now she's only got one fool for a friend. Cue Foolie. She enters and announces that she got the space and is opening the restaurant. Like we care. Go. Open your restaurant. Stop clogging our televisions with this annoying story line.
Pacific Palisades Park for the Passed On. Syd's eulogizing. It's pretty much all about Sydney, however. She yammers about Credit Dauphine, her workaholic father, dead mother, and anything else that has nothing to do with Dead Auntie Em. She winds the whole thing up by wondering what her own mother would have been like, had she lived. Sad, really. Sydney has to pay tribute to a dead woman whom she wishes were alive by fabricating sob stories about a living woman whom Sydney wishes WEREN'T alive.
Sydney goes on to talk about kindness and goodness and other qualities that Spy Mommy so obviously doesn't have. While she blathers on, we're treated to a blurry screen with a moving figure on it. As the figure gets closer, the picture gets clearer, until we see the lovely Lena Olin talking to some receptionist. Back at the cemetery, Uncle Arvin and his goofy glasses (they're small and yellow and they make him look like an insect which, I suppose, he is) are giving Syd a not-so-icky hug. Syd walks toward her father, who's just getting off his cell phone.