![]() So he slips on the steamed shirt and his sportcoat (my heart!), grabs a bouquet of flowers (my heart again!) and gets ready to go to the show. Ashtray sees Custer whispering to Fay, realizes something hinky is going on, and slips a knife into his sleeve.īut Fez is unaware. Fay is steaming his shirt, and everything is going along well until her boyfriend, Custer, shows up unannounced. We watch him getting ready, and it’s very cute how much effort he’s putting into looking good for the event. WHERE’S FEZ? | Meanwhile, when Lexi’s not in character, she’s tearing around backstage like a tyrant, and it’s highly amusing. “I’m done,” he says coldly, walking away as she watches him go. He yells that the scene her sister wrote was “homophobic” and tells her to pack her bags and leave his house. The feeling between the two of them is decidedly less gentle as he storms out of the auditorium and she follows. As Cal leaned over his son, Nate startled awake, and Cassie reassured him that it was just a nightmare. THEN - and I believe this lends credence to the theory I put forth last week - there was a very yucky moment that implied that Cal and Nate were both naked, only now it’s Nate who’s been flung down on his stomach on the motel bed. The scene is a huge hit with almost everyone in the audience, though a lot of them are shooting furtive glances at Nate, who is mortified and bolts by the end of the song.Įarlier in the episode, we’d seen someone’s fantasy - Nate’s? Cassie’s? I’m honestly not sure - unfold as Cassie told Nate he could control “what I wear, what I eat, who I talk to… I belong to you, and I won’t ever complain, because I trust you know what’s best.” And then, later, Nate had been thinking about Maddy, then Jules, then throwing Cassie down on a bed, ripping her fishnets and putting his hand on her face the way Cal did to Jules. ![]() And we get a good sense of Ethan’s versatility as a performer as he takes on the roles of both Lexi’s character’s mom - who cackles, tickled, in the audience - and the character based on Nate.Ībout that: The portion of the show that we see in this episode ends with a large scale, highly choreographed, gold-lamé wrapped and intentionally homoerotic number in which Stage Nate lip syncs to Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” while gyrating with the rest of the semi-clad members of the dramatized football team. We see the night that Maddy stayed at the house as her parents were splitting up, when Cassie comforted her friend as she cried. ![]() Also, what was the scenery budget? I’ve seen Broadway productions that would’ve killed for that school hallway setup.Īnyway, as the show continues, we get flashbacks to Lexi and Cassie’s childhood that are both happy (the whole family dancing in the living room) and sad (Lexi crying when her father was so messed up that he should not have driven her and Cassie home from getting ice cream, but he did). There are so many scenes and so many elaborate sets in Lexi’s staged roman à clef, I kept thinking that the thing must be a five-hour production. What gives? We’ll get to that in a few.īecause the show! must! go! on! And on. Throughout the hour, we see Lexi checking the crowd for Fez’s face she’d saved a seat for him, and he’d said he’d be there. As the drugs kick in, the camera pulls back… and we realize that we’re now watching the dramatization of this scene in Lexi’s play, called Our Life, in which Rue is a character named “Jade.” The real Rue - as well as the rest of their social circle - watches from the audience and slowly has the same realization that Maddy comes to as she whispers, “Wait, is this f–king play about us?!” Lexi reads her a poem, “Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower” by Rainier Maria Rilke. PLAY ON, PLAYER | We go back to the day of Rue’s father’s memorial service at her house, where Lexi finds the grieving teen snorting crushed pills in her bedroom. Mare of Easttown: This News Out of HBO Does Not Bode Well for Season 2
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