Catch the recap of episode 8 here so you’re caught up for this next spin on the carnival ride.
Carrie is alive! My little lesbian heart is so happy because the thought of watching my little sister Finley grieve her stand-in mother while knuckling through trauma healing and sobriety was too much for me. The sweet make-shift family remains! Fin is in full caretaker mode (obnoxiously so) after Carrie survived a scary heart attack.
Poor Angie has fallen into depression after the whole dating her professor thing bombed. She’s been living in her bed coping, and is right there still when her Moms show up for her scheduled public reading (yes, it’s a reading of her work from the class taught by THAT teacher.) She was very much not planning on attending but in an attempt to keep Bette and Tina in the dark on her sex life, she reluctantly agrees to go and drags her roommate/confidante into the forced attendance.
Alice is obsessed with her kitten and I can relate because I also show everyone 200 photos of my new puppy. Deal with it or don’t be my friend, basically. But then Twitter pops up with an alert that Alice is trending, and it’s not a great look. Remember the movie theater scene a few episodes back? Yeahhhhhh, those videos made it to the internet with the hashtag #AliceSoEntitled. Whoops.
Cancel culture wants to do what it does and goes for Alice’s throat. I think her Main Character energy is hilarious but the mob hive-mind mentality behind cancel culture loves to attack and tear down and pretend that everyone else in the world is absolutely perfect.
Misty and Carrie hadn’t had sex yet, prior to the heart attack and now a goal of Carrie’s physical healing is to make it into bed together (when they’re emotionally ready, of course.) Spoiler alert: they do by the end of the episode and we really adore this butch/butch couple representation.
Things are steamy with Dani and Dre and that little explosive phrase slips out, “I love you.” Dre backtracks within three seconds, “I mean I love what you’re doing… not like, you.”
Why bow down and apologize when you could make fun of yourself instead and laugh through the cancel mob antics? Honestly, I’m with Alice on this one but her team, Sophie and Dani, think she needs to play the game nicer (more tamed woman? yeah.) Lame. Alice is my spirit animal because she says no dice, that’s not who she is. She’s going to embrace herself and stand her ground knowing she’s not the shitbag people are trying to make her out to be. Yeah, Alice!
Angie goes through with her reading, which took a lot of courage in front of her creative writing instructor a.k.a. the douchebag who slept with his freshman student. Bella, Angie’s roommate, sits with Bette, Tina and Shane, who shows up late. Wait a minute, Shane recognizes that douchebag professor is Angie’s ex boyfriend. And then it all clicks and the Mama lions are pissed, as they should be.
Hyped for filming the show finale episode, Alice is disheartened to learn that her main guest has pulled out after Alice had refused to tuck her tail between her legs like a shamed dog. And now, she’s over it. Fuck the show and fuck this. Alice doesn’t want to film. Sophie doesn’t want to cancel the episode and decides she’s going to make it work and make it happen without Alice.
Finley means well and is acting out of love but is driving Carrie crazy with her tofu “eggs” and green powder water. This sweetie just loves her and it’s so cute. This little lesbian family is one of my favorite storylines this season.
Angie’s bff roomie, Bella agrees with the Mom’s and Aunt Shane that the professor was predatory and Angie was taken advantage of, from that perspective. Thinking she’s fully grown at 18 and everyone is underestimating her, Angie storms off pissed telling everyone to leave her alone.
Tess is full on alcoholic again. So now Tess isn’t just normal-Tess-mean, Tess is alcoholic-mean. Cool, cool.
Shane’s been thinking and trying to find herself again and has a great idea, what if the second bar they intended to open (at Tess’ assistance — ahem, bullying) wasn’t a bar? What if it was a salon? I love this Shane, who’s wanting to return to her passion and have something for herself. Mean Tess shits on the idea. Shane has finally had enough of the abuse and ends it with Tess, she can’t do this anymore. Tess is even more of a drunk asshole because Tess is a toddler and everything should be however Tess wants it to be and fuck anyone who has any needs besides Tess. Narcissist much?
To top off Alice’s shitty day, she loses her kitten. Alice, wearing Gucci, roams the streets with a chicken sandwich on a fishing pole trying to lure her kitten home. Because she’s Alice, that’s why.
Angie’s teacher resigned from his position at the school after it came out that he has a relationship with Angie. So, there’s that. But this mean Angie continues to pursue him, probably fueled by her desire to prove her family and friends wrong about the toxicity of this dynamic.
Bette proposes to Tina over burgers and fries. The magic in the mundane really shines here and I love it. I’m happy to see these two reconcile fully and prove that sometimes, if we really work for it, love prevails.
Dre slayed her performance on Alice’s show and Dani is thrilled for her, but things are still awkward after Dre’s love confession. “I meant what I said earlier. I’m falling for you. And if you don’t feel the same way, I should probably head home. Protect my heart a little,” Dre confides with her bag in hand. Dani looks overwhelmed but we have no idea what her response is because they’re definitely going to leave us with this cliffhanger.
The kitten, per every Hollywood storyline ever, was stuck high up in a tree. Alice is eager for the hand-off from the firefighters who have so graciously come to the rescue. And guess who is there to hate on Alice? Her ex Tasha. There has to be more to this than just a silly cameo. The next episode should be very interesting!
