Not as
good as the last one, but still pretty good.
I’m successfully able to talk about this one without spoilers on
Hannah’s plot, although it’s certainly getting harder – not sure if I’ll make
it to the end (light spoilers on Elijah’s storyline.)
Hannah
starts letting more people in on what’s been happening with her, and everyone
has an opinion about it. Meanwhile,
Adam’s been dogging her, trying to convince her to watch his movie – for what
he presumes will be her own closure as well as for his own reassurance that he
didn’t “lie” in telling their story. In
other news, Marnie struggles to get Desi through a couple of gigs, and a chance
occurrence at work makes Elijah think it might be time to get serious about his
dreams.
Given
how, from what we’ve seen of Adam’s movie, it definitely looks like he revised
himself quite a bit, it’s interesting that he’s so concerned with whether or
not he told the truth. It makes me
wonder what he really thinks about the relationship, about Hannah, and about
himself, that this is the “real” story he chose to tell. I like that he wants so badly to know if
Hannah remembers it the same way he does, but in typical Adam fashion, he
pushes way too hard on it, and that’s before he joins everybody else in getting
up in Hannah’s business.
As for
Marnie, she tries to take charge in the middle of a difficult, aggravating
situation, but in doing so, she manages to 1) fail to understand some very
basic stuff about her music partner/ex-husband, 2) blame first Desi and then
her mom for most everything that’s wrong in her life, and 3) accuse both of
them of keeping her from being the person she needs to be to help others. Oh yeah, and in an early scene with Hannah,
she says, “I don’t want to top your news,” proceeds to attempt to do just that,
and then says, “Sorry to top your news.”
That’s Marnie, all right!
Some good
Elijah stuff this week. First, he and
Hannah clear the air after the events of the last episode. I don’t exaggerate when I say that, every
time something goes down between them, they make up over it pretty much the
next time we see them in a scene together.
Now, back when Elijah was still a recurring character, it might’ve taken
half a season or more for that scene to happen, but as soon as it does, they’re
making their way back to one another in their trademark
dysfunctional-but-endearing fashion.
We’ve really never seen an ongoing storyline in which Hannah and Elijah
are actively mad at each other. While I
suppose it would be an interesting tack to take for change, I ultimately can’t
fault their quick make-ups; they just seem to get each other in a way that no
other two characters on the show quite do, so their reunions are always
inevitable. This one, as usual, is both
hilarious and oddly sweet.
The
episode also finds Elijah getting the kick in the pants he needs to get serious
about wanting to be an actor. A coworker
at the clothing store he apparently now works at asks him to help her run lines
for an audition, and Elijah gets way into it, freaking out some customers and
impressing both his coworker and himself.
It’s fun to see Elijah reading the scene, a full-on dramatic role,
because even though Elijah’s technically the one doing the acting, it’s a
performance I’ve never seen Rannells get the chance to do before. Plus, it’s made even neater by the brief
interruptions of the “real” Elijah into the performance, especially the notes
he has ready for his coworker.
Side
note: that coworker is played by
Rannells’s other Hamilton hook-up
this season: Jasmine Cephas Jones,
a.k.a. Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds.
Also, the scene opens on Elijah awesomely grousing, “Why the fuck do we
stay open until 10 p.m.? Anyone buying
leather gloves after 6 is clearly a goddamn murderer.” Perfect reading of a perfect line.
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