Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Part 2 of Season 3, Episode 5: Shooting Star / American in Paris - It's a real cheating free-for-all up in here amongst these teens who've lived a much more exciting existence than I ever did at that age. Or now, even. So fire up some Fleetwood Mac and dive on into this complicated mire of DECEIT.

Catch up on the infuriation: Part 1 is here.  And continue with the infuriation, starting...NOW:

The Parisian Hotel That Looks Like a Slight Breeze Could Bring It Down.

Inside, Brenda, Maggie and Donna descend the staircase  - they're all looking fab - and Donna asks, "Bren, are you sure you don't want to come with us?" Maggie, these summer episodes' answer to Samantha Jones (and filling in for Darren Starr's original prototype for SJ, Kelly Taylor), chuckles knowingly and purrs, "Hey, let her have some fun with her Monsieur Rick.  We won't wait up." And then she probably said this and shimmied her shoulders up and down a bunch.  Anyway, Brenda playfully responds with, "Good idea"...

...and Donna does NOT approve: "BRENDA!"

Brenda insists she was kidding and then she's off with a, "A bientôt!"

The phone rings and Madam D picks up, eventually shoving the receiver toward Donna with, "They are asking for Brenda." And of course it's fucking Dylan, clearly attempting to repent for the dire life choice to which he and Kelly recently subjected us.

He lounges on his couch and asks Donna how she is, a sentiment she returns, and in kind he responds with yet another seminal-only-to-me line: "Ah, jes oui hangin' out."

He asks after Brenda and Donna doesn't exactly fib, telling him that she went out sightseeing, and when he queries about who she went with, Donna once again sidesteps the lie: "She left here all by herself." Also: get bent, Dylan.  Your tongue was just swabbing the inside of your girlfriend's best friend's mouth.  I hope Brenda has sex with Rick, except that I don't, because I wouldn't wish intercourse with a piece of cardboard upon anyone.

Whatever whatever, he tells Donna, "I just kinda wanted to hear her voice right now" - LIES - and also not to tell Brenda that he called, that, "She'll try and call me back and I'll probably be asleep, or my penis will be in the process of exploring the depth's of Kelly's vagina." Donna says that Brenda's really looking forward to coming home and Dylan says the same before bidding Donna farewell and hanging up and then SOOOOOOPER Severe Synth begins in the background as the camera zooms in on his very handsome dirty dog face.