Episode Report Card Lady Lola: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Unraveling
By Lady Lola | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.13.2010
Speaking of poorly used characters, Dixon is in the thick of his clowning out as MILF's DJ du jour. Across the room, MILF is introducing her industry insider friends to AAdrianna, whom she describes as "Sia meets Inara George with a hint of Kate Nash." Side note: I know two of those people! Does that make MILF dated or me still passably in sync with pop culture? I'll take the latter and call it a day. But I digress... MILF throws it over to AAdrianna to wow the crowd with her sparkling personality. Epic fail. MILF pulls AAdrianna away, saying she has more people to meet. She pulls old grouchface aside and asks her why she's fucking up her chance to hobnob. AAdrianna explains the RuWill situation and MILF is shockingly cool about it. Instead of being all, "This is your big break, leave that bitch behind and suck it up!" (which I'm guessing is much more common), she tells AAdrianna not to crumble under the pressure of the industry and to go make nice with her ladyfriend.
Back in the other room, Dixon spots Ivy enter with her own grouchface on. He abruptly changes whatever tune he was playing to the same Bob Marley jam he played earlier in their one-on-one DJ lesson. Ivy slowly warms up as Dixon sings and generally acts a fool. Worst. DJ. Ever. All the flash, none of the skills.
Not too long after, AAdrianna has made her way to RuWill's house. She desperately apologizes for being insensitive and choosing Navid over her. RuWill is acting strangely, then mumbles that AAdrianna's come at kind of an awkward time. Cue the ex-girlfriend shame-walking out of the bathroom, still buttoning up her shirt. AAdrianna can't believe she got cheated on after she went gay for this hussy. RuWill tries to explain, but it's about as effective as any cheater's excuses -- and maybe even a little less considering AAdrianna has literally been gone like two hours. At most. That's not insecurity, it's just slutty. And shitty.
Clarkette Compound. Naomi catches Liam as he walks in. She admits she screwed up on a scale heretofore unknown even to her. She says she regrets it immensely and tries to explain how things spiraled out of control. He speaks only to tell her that he's going back to his mother's house. Naomi reminds him that he said it was the last place in the world he wanted to be. Make that second-to-last place, I guess.
Xanax-adu. Dixon has wrapped up his set and finds Ivy to thank her for the mitzvah. He brags about getting some important-looking guy's card. He better follow up on that shit, too, because it sounds like his new gambling habit is going to require him to start working. But we're not here to talk about Dixon's problem. It's all about Ivy for the moment. Dixon asks if she's okay, goofing around until she fesses up that Liam rejected her. Dixon says Liam's an idiot because Ivy's amazing. She says she's ready to move on already. Good news to Dixon, who can finally admit that he's developed on a little crush on his fake girlfriend. He asks her out on a real date, and she is just dejected enough to say yes.
Elsewhere, a still-tuxedoed Navid hits up a café for a post-cotillion coffee. He finds AAdrianna there writing a song about her girlfriend, the lesbian world's Tiger Woods. Instead of saying, "Karma's a bitch, bitch!" Navid empathizes with AAdrianna and tells her he's proud of how much she's grown. This kind of mess would once have driven her on a bender. Now she's indulging in coffee and clichés just like all the other sober creative types worldwide. AAdrianna invites him to stay for a while and shows him the beginnings of her blues-inflected riff on bicuriosity.
MILF Manor. Ivy's mom finds Matthews, who didn't leave after all -- he couldn't find his car on account of the wacky weed. She apologizes for not considering the consequences he'd face as a result of their relationship and gives him an easy out of the relationship. He tells her he's a big boy, then bums a hit off her marijuana cigarette. Newsflash, buddy: Big boys bring their own supplies.
Liam enters his boathouse/bedroom and throws down his keys. He stops in his tracks when he sees Luke from Gilmore Girls. Turns out, the watcher is his biological father, who's fresh out of the Big House. He says he missed Liam and took the first bus out to California to see him. Liam is legitimately happy for maybe the first time ever, and they embrace several times.
La Nueva Casa. Annie skitters into her room and is horrified to find a poster-sized picture of Hobo Joe hanging on her wall, smiling triumphantly, still in the business suit of his wealthy, pre-itinerant days. We must wonder: Has Jasper busted out of the loony bin?! But as soon as the possibility arises, and as soon as she rips the poster down in a frenzy, the poster magically reappears on the wall. Ah, the hackneyed nightmare sequence! Annie repeats her Sisyphean task of ripping the poster down again and again and again until eventually the camera swirls around her to show the entire room plastered with the posters of the man she murdered. Finally she wakes up in a cold sweat. I love how she's only having this sort of dream now that she's gotten off Scot-free. Annie always has to find some way to make it about her own suffering and trauma, doesn't she? Douche.
West Bev, next morning. Naomi ugly-guilt-faces her way inside. The sad part is that she is obviously more horrified by people's open ridicule than by her own low-life actions. Mean Girls never learn. Annie, who is somewhat familiar with wallowing in shit she created, spots Naomi and heads over to commiserate. She assures Naomi (incorrectly) that she's not a terrible person. Naomi moans about how she said "one thing" that spiraled completely out of control. Annie finishes her sentence about how lies can sometimes take on a life of their own and become nightmares you can't wake up from. She tells Naomi she gets it, and they literally lean on each other for support. And they'll need it. Ain't nobody comin' to these damn-sels in distress.
In two weeks: Liam reconnects with Naomi, only to put the moves on Annie. Teddy pisses off Silver something fierce. And Jen comes back to show these amateurs how it's done.