Episode Report Card Demian: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shannen sings!
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 24 | Aired on 01.19.1997
God, that scene was disgusting. Quad, the next day. Shannen’s filling Chloë in on her plans to visit her parents that weekend as the two cross to a bench with sandwiches and coffee. Once seated, Chloë feeds Shannen another bullshit hard-luck story about her parents -- lawyer father, Yale alumna mother -- dying in a plane crash in Hartford in 1982. The poor little orphan was then shipped off to her grandfather’s until he, too, died. After that, the Little Match Girl was shunted from foster home to foster home. Shannen buys it all. Idiot. Chloë rises to leave, but Shannen stops her to suggest Chloë join her on her trip home. Chloë lies that she wasn’t fishing for an invitation to meet the folks. Shannen insists, and we cut to an exterior shot of House Delta. Shannen and Chloë tote overnight bags down the walk past Alison, who’s just returning from class. Shannen perks that Alison will have their room to herself that weekend. Chloë brightly adds that she’ll be joining Shannen. Hearing this, Alison’s face falls a bit as she mumbles out an indifferent, "Have fun." A very brief scene follows in which we meet Shannen’s parents and younger brother. Shannen introduces Chloë to them, and Chloë’s welcomed warmly for the weekend. Chloë engages in a desultory game of catch with Shannen’s brother while Shannen herself banters a bit with the parents over how fabulous her band supposedly is. Chloë is clearly jealous. And insane. Cut back to campus. Shannen and Alison round a corner as Alison asks, "So what’s with taking [Chloë] home to Mother?" Shannen babbles something about Chloë needing to practice if she’s to learn the rest of the band’s no-doubt extensive repertoire. They nearly barrel into Chloë herself, who bounds down a set of stairs with urgent news. "There’s a reporter from KLA on the Row interviewing Greeks," she tells Shannen. "I told her all about you, and she wants you on the show." If you’re wondering, that first bit is true and the second’s another lie. Chloë convinces Shannen that an appearance on the news would benefit the band. Shannen agrees to head back to House Delta, despite the fact that Bryan is scheduled to begin filming the video that afternoon. Simon’s Lair. Sammy plunks out a couple of chords at the piano while Nick fiddles with a foosball set. Because you can’t be a frat-boy asshole if you don’t play foosball. Chloë is in the middle of feeding them some line of crap about Shannen ditching the video shoot to chase after some publicity on her own, even though Chloë advised her that any publicity involving the band should include all of its members. Nick clearly thinks Chloë’s full of it, but keeps his mouth shut. Simon enters and joins Nick at the foosball table, conveniently expositing that his birthday is that coming Friday. Chloë finds this all very interesting. Because she’s a fruity erotomaniac. Bryan strides over to the group to bitch, "Look guys, I’m ditching an early Truffaut for this, so I gotta shoot some film." Oh, shut UP, Dawson. Nick reminds Dawson that they can’t do anything without Shannen. Sly Chloë oh-so-innocently offers to fill in for her. Nick looks less than enthused by this option, but Dawson readily agrees to it. Nick jerks a handle on the table around in disgust.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25Next