Just When You Know You Just Cant Change a Thing the L Word
Well I don't know nigh YOU only I personally saw a faded sign on the side of the route that said fifteen miles to the LOVE SHACCCKKKKK? And so did our favorite musical trio: Shane, Bette and Alice.
For anybody unaware of the background here: Leisha Hailey is a professional person musician (she was in the Murmurs also Uh Huh Her, a band I famously adore) and played a musician in All Over Me. Jennifer Beals can sing too, and did then in "Blood and Concrete" (1991) and They Shoot Divas Don't They (2002).
If yous'd like to run across a video of the operation with *just* the song sound on it and no oversupply dissonance or crowd shots, you can do so right here.
Can every dark be karaoke dark? Can nosotros have a musical episode?
JENNY IS ALIVE!!!!
HAS Everyone SEEN MY ASSISTANT JAMES
THEY DIDN'T Take TO KILL DANA!!!!!!!!
I'm honestly having a great time, and every time the camera shifts to a member of the oversupply, information technology appears that this functioning has thrust everybody into a wild country of ecstasy. Finley wins, though:
And nobody is having less fun than Gigi, who is a piddling tipsy and increasingly preoccupied about Bette for reasons that are unfortunately quite familiar to me:"It'south amazing how the ego takes a hit even if you know somebody isn't right for y'all," Gigi tells Dani,apropos of naught. Dani shares that she feels good with Sophie. Gigi says closure is powerful.
Dani and Bette greet each other with the warmth of two women that many members of the net take sexual fantasies well-nigh. Dani tells Bette she'southward been "working on something for us" that will certainly delight Bette, seeing how deeply Bette has e'er been a huge fan of Daddy'south Evil Incorporated.
Meanwhile in the backroom, Tess confronts Shane: she wants to know why Cherie bankrupt upward with her because she's pretty suspicious that the reason starts with Southward and ends with E and information technology'due south not Sophie, Science or legendary recording artist Sade.
Gay Squabble #22: Who'due south Delusional Now?
In the Band: Tess vs. Shane
Content: Cherie told Tess that they needed to break upward because information technology was "messy" and she wanted to "take herself out of the mix," and Tess "calls bullshit" on Shane maxim this decision did not follow Cherie and Shane having sexual activities. Shane knows she screwed up with Lena, but that was like, between three weeks and two years ago and she's totally inverse at present? Tess says Shane has got the look of guilt on her face up, declares herself done, and leaves.
Who Wins? Clea
Gigi saddles up to Bette Porter, wall of stone, at the bar, and asks if she wants to fuck in the bathroom and then immediately says she was kidding.
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Merely what Gigi really wants is some closure of her own and Bette is and so vehemently confronting this request for directly communication — albeit coming from a slightly drunk woman wearing 15% of a turtleneck sweater — that she is in fact smug, repulsed, and a incredibly mean.
Gigi: What went so wrong with the states, Bette.?
Bette: You really wanna talk almost this? Like now?
Gigi: Yeah, yeah I exercise.
Bette: Okay. Um. I recollect nosotros both know that we're not right for each other.
Gigi: I'm curious near your perspective.
Bette: I think I need… more?
Gigi: Do you really recollect there's someone out there who checks all your boxes, Bette?
Bette: As a matter of fact I know there is.
She is of course referring to Pippa, who she very recently told her friends she was simply pursuing as a client! But this is unfathomably unnecessary and cruel to say to anyone, allow lonely someone yous've dated casually who has never wronged or insulted you lot on any level.
Maybe being as hot equally Gigi enables a person to maintain their ego confronting all odds, but again, equally with Micah earlier in the episode, if I were Gigi I would bein the process of irresolute my name and putting a eolith down on a mansion in rural North Dakota.
Estimate who's here? Information technology's Tom! He is coming straight from the wedding ceremony of his nightmares, wherein his ex married his all-time friend and Great Aunt Gilda was coming on potent. Alice is tentatively flirty nigh his outfit.
Y'all practise animal impressions!?!? Show me your best wild tiger
Tom was stoked when Alice texted — and she's jazzed most this until she realizes it's not because he wants to bang in a parking lot but because he'd been dying for an excuse to get the hell out of that wedding. He is not lonely in his seeming supposition that Alice, while bisexual, is but interested in women, and volunteers to exist her wingman.
Micah tells Dani that Maribel isn't gonna date him until she solves the crunch at the edge, or something, and Dani suggests that he coffin his emotions and instead go talk to a hot guy who has been staring at him all night!
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We Take to do "Suddenly Seymour" the oversupply will go WILD for it
This leaves Dani solitary for a mere moment because almost immediately Gigi slips in to bring together her, just in time for Sophie to transport her a beverage because this is 1959 and what on M-d'southward barely-green decomposing earth is going on here??
You know Well-nigh people take trouble holding ONE martini glass without spilling just I'll have you know that I personally am adept at in fact holding TWO at the same fourth dimension
Shane tries calling Tess, who doesn't option up. She heads outside, where Finley is practicing telling Sophie not to hit on her. Her start rehearsal produces the post-obit piece of improv: "I'1000 gonna say it again, I love yous, I think I've e'er loved yous, and BE WITH ME!"
What do you hateful "If you lot build it, they will come"?? Who'southward gonna come up?
Shane reminds Finley that she has a job, Tess bailed, and Shane thus needs Finley to do said task. "I fed the rats so you don't need to worry about that," Finley tells her on her way back inside.
Bette's skipped out on karaoke night and has re-located to an art showroom featuring the students of the one and but Pippa Pascal, who is somehow both hidden in the canyons of Topenga AND instruction graduate students at a local Academy.
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If y'all say and so
Pippa'south aggravated to meet Bette — this is not the place for a pitch — merely Bette says she'due south not there for Pippa, she's there for one of Pippa'southward students. Slick.
Back at Karaoke, the unrequested drama continues! This fourth dimension, it's Maribel who spots Micah flirting with a human being and decides to become right over and give him a slice of her mind.
Squabble #23: Grind Upward On This
In the Ring: Micah vs. Maribel
Maribel: Was I simply an experiment to y'all? Just to encounter what it would be similar to sleep with a woman?
Micah: That – That is non —
Maribel: Cuz it sorta feels that way.
Micah: Await, what do you lot mean? I just asked y'all out and you shot me downwards!
Maribel: I didn't shoot you down!
Micah: You weren't exactly excited or even open to the idea of dating.
Maribel: Oh I'm so sorry I wasn't enthusiastic enough for you lot! Maybe I should smiling more than likewise?
Micah: That is not what I meant and you know that's not what I meant.
Maribel: Perchance I was a little nervous.
Micah: Were you lot?
Maribel: Of form, I'1000 human. But instead of asking for description you observe the hottest guy hither to grind up on.
Who Wins? Micah should've asked for description, but sleeping with your friend is pretty vulnerable and nerve-wracking for both of them — she explicitly shot him downwards and I don't blame him for reading the room and moving on to other possibilities. Truly I have no inkling what'southward going on with these 2 only I promise to find out shortly!
Considering the fine gentlewoman Sophie sent k'lady Dani a beverage across ye olde karaoke bar for reasons unknown, Dani sojourns in her direction to ask and earlier long, banter is itinerant!
I tin can hold this smile for v more than seconds max and so we are returning to our respective corners, okay?
Dani: Was that an apology for brutally abandoning me at the altar in front end of all my friends and family? Considering I'm gonna need more than a drinkable for that i.
Sophie: Can nosotros only pretend to be nice to each other?
Dani: This is me pretending to exist overnice. [pause] Does everyone crook? is that only something everyone does?
I wondered here if Dani knew that Gigi cheated on Nat, or if she's just thinking of what piddling we do know she definitely knows — Felicity adulterous on her husband, Jose cheating on his husband, Sophie cheating on her, etc.
This is such a pure moment: Dani, new to dating, trying to navigate the norms and determine what she should accept and what bears test.
Sophie tells her she looks great and Dani's similar, "I know."
Of course Finley walks out onto the bar floor at the exact moment Dani and Sophie are touching each other affectionately (for, again, reasons unbenknownst to me) and thus turns on her heels and returns to the backroom, which is non exactly what Shane had instructed!
Sophie chases Finley into the back room to find her very upset. Finley was gonna ask Sophie to end hitting on her, simply realized she didn't have to after all, 'cause Sophie'south out there with Dani. Sophie insists she's not back together with Dani and — you know what? Let'south fight it out.
Lesbian Squabble #24: And I Don't Know How To Agree You Without Shaking
In The Ring: Sophie vs Finley
Finley doesn't want a friendship. "I call back I've been pretty clear about that," she says, accurately. As mentioned in an before epitomize, there are many extras who tin can absolutely prove to this fact. But Sophie heard her fucking someone else! Finley thinks Sophie should know that wasn't real! Finley's but trying to get over Sophie just she's making it so hard!
Finley: You asked me to stay and I stayed. Correct. Then y'all asked for space so I gave you infinite. and whatever time I'm near you I feel something and I but — do yous feel it? Do y'all feel it? Or am I fucking crazy?
Sophie: Yeah, okay, you're not crazy.
Finley: And then what the fuck, dude?
Sophie says it's just hard! In that location'southward so much to consider. Not Dani, but everybody. "Nobody thinks nosotros should be together," says Sophie, and I would similar to disagree on the behalf of Sinley shippers everywhere — I believe at that place are at least 35 of us — and probable everybody who was at the nuptials and hopes all that drama was worth information technology for somebody. "I don't give a fuck what everybody else thinks," Finley screams. Sophie shuts the door. She doesn't want to make a scene. Because y'all know; they've made a few scenes. Finley is crying. "You're never gonna choose me, are y'all?" Sophie can simply sigh.
Who Wins? Finley. She made her instance and put her foot downward, despite how painful it is to exercise and so.
Sophie'southward hesitancy is unkind simply it's also clear where it's coming from — Finley's choice to disembalm their affair in a backwards hat humiliated Dani, ruined an expensive hymeneals at the Available Mansion and outed both her and Finley every bit very emotionally reckless human being beings. In all the ensuing moments of their common lives, this choice has continued to deliver consequences: Finley losing her job, Sophie losing her dining room table and red pepper, Dani losing her mind, both Sophie and Finley losing some respect. Sophie lied! Finley fucked up!
What Sophie doesn't realize yet is nigh of their peers ultimately don't give a shit and she has to do what'due south right for her own heart. In one case the drama has faded, anybody returns to their ain self-obsession and whatever is easiest for them socially. Nobody is thinking well-nigh the implications of Sophie aligning herself publicly with Finley half as much equally Sophie is — including Finley.
And come on, is it really amend to say "that's non mine" than it is to say "that is mine, and nosotros know that nosotros got here the wrong way, but we did need to get hither somehow"?
Back out on the dance floor, Alice can't make the showtime move with Tom 'crusade rejection is a bit intimidating right now. Sophie tells her she can't be scared forever.
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Oh my God y'all're correct
Alice: "I recollect one more night of crippling fear is okay."
Sophie: "Non for me I don't think."
Alice: "No?"
Sophie: "Finley's not that bad."
Alice: "I know that! I love her!"
Sophie: "Yeah. Then do I."
And ta-da: that'southward enough, I remember, for Sophie. Just even this one singular person she respects existence on board with the relationship, fifty-fifty this 1 person reminding her that the only person worried about her image w/r/t dating Finley is Sophie herself. And peradventure she should just fucking go for it and end pain Finley!
Finley continues shining as the worst employee of the twelvemonth as she paces in the kitchen, feeling wholly entitled to Shane'southward focus and attention because she is "actually in pain."
Shane's advice for Finley (and besides for her and Tess, information technology seems) is that if they both have feelings for each other, what'due south the problem? Finley groans when she hears the opening chords of "Closer" past the esteemed Tegan & Sara. Because that's their song. Evidently.
Yeah every night effectually 11pm a steady drip of Vancouver water starts leaking through the crack in the roof into the kitchen and I like to think that's Dana upwards at that place, reminding u.s. that we threw 50 cups of her ashes into a waterfall which was absolutely more ashes than one body could've ever reasonably created
"Is it?" Shane asks. "Because…"
Finley's eyes low-cal up like a child on Christmas morning almost to rip open a giant box of Tinker Toys. Sophie's singing their song!
Attention Attention we're gonna demand a make clean-upwards on aisle five!
That'south your job, Finley
Finley is dazzled by this sudden and welcome announcement of Sophie'southward deep actual feelings and desires via the eternal Lesbian Love Language of Tegan & Sara lyrics. You can see in this moment that Finley has never earlier been the recipient of a yard gesture. She stands in front of the stage like a geeky groupie, blissed out and full of that hope she'd lost in her eyes. Sophie is scared but set to own her feelings, every word, adding, sometimes, her ain words to the song, as cringey as that insertion is. But, speaking of bad-mannered —
Listen I love love, I beloved this rom-com moment and that in truthful lesbian rom-com fashion information technology involves Tegan & Sara. But…. Dani is here, you lot morons!!!! And estimate what you're kinda making a scene!!
Surely she would not dare to practice what it appears she is currently doing?
Dani is hither and so if Sophie must exercise it this style, and I don't remember she must, maybe requite Micah a heads-up to remove Dani from the bounds before she begins? Maybe don'tliterally insert Finley'southward name into the songor requite an aside likeand this is truealmost Finley thinking virtually her underneath her. Does Dani deserve to witness this, allow lone witness an unabridged room of clueless extras auspicious for Sinley? My friends, she does not!
And this is why, as before long every bit Dani sees that Sophie is singing and Finley is standing in front of her like a silly kid just gazing and elbow-crushing to this love vocal, she gets the absolute fuck out of there and I believe she volition shortly be filing a lawsuit against the Dana Fairbanks Memorial Tavern.
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