Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Let's Spend The Night Together
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.27.1999
B/W Lily interrupts the proceedings to tell us about Jake in the beginning of their relationship. "Get out of the way!" I yell, impatient to get back to the good stuff. Partial nudity, remember? Who cares about Jake?
Thankfully, it was a short interruption, and we're back to the bedroom, where the two are undressed and staring at each other as they stand next to the bed. In a fit of originality, Rick tells her she's "so beautiful." And suddenly, we're following the camera up the length of entwined legs and twisted sheets to the promised land of naked butt. I assume that it's Lily's bum and I'm surprised because Sela doesn't strike me as the type to bare her ass on national television. But as the camera continues its journey northward, it becomes clear that Billy's the one who took it all off. It was Billy's creamy, sculpted, perfectly hairless, girlish ass. I can't help it -- I'm disturbed. Lily's not, apparently, as they grope and slurp and groan. She pauses a moment to ask if he "has something." He does. Well, he doesn't, but his son does. Whoa, turn-on! And do you get it? Do you see that clever little spin they've put on the whole kid/parent thing? Anyway, Rick races off in search of some latex, and B/W Lily uses his absence to tell us how she learned of Jake's affair. She remembers she was going over the credit-card bill and found a charge from a downtown hotel. Nice passive-aggressive maneuver, there, Jakey. Lily didn't boot his ass, however, but instead chose to overlook the situation. Hey, um, mood kill!
Rick returns with the loot, which they playfully joke about. Mercifully, it's all off-screen, because I don't really need to see Rick snap Lily with a rubber. But these two, they can't just leave well enough alone and seize the moment. Oh, no! B/W Rick's got to crash the party and dampen spirits. He tells us how his marriage just fell apart after Jessie was born. Somehow, he couldn't give Karen what she needed anymore; he couldn't even figure out what it was she wanted. He "was disappointing her every day."
Speaking of disappointing, Rick and Lily are awkwardly trying to figure out what goes where, and the instant contact is made, Lily's face changes. She's fully engaged physically, but emotionally, she's elsewhere. Rick asks if she's okay.
Ah man, here's B/W Lily again. "It's my fault," she says. She's not referring to the present sexual fiasco, but to Jake's continued affairs. She blames herself for not having called him on his many indiscretions. She's disappointed with herself for being so weak.