High Fidelity
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This is elegant, seductive storytelling.
Track 2 introduces us to Robs philosophy of sequencing a playlist.
So track 1 has to be familiar, yet unexpected, and needs to make the listener feel good.
Track 2 then needs to meet the challenge of taking the promise of Track 1 further.
As goes Track 2, so goes Track 2.
Not that theyre going to hold back on the good-natured roasting of their boss-chum.
David Bowie really had his shit together.
Robs face registers a range of not-thrilled emotions, primarily dread and a sort of constipated-looking revulsion.
Back in the present, Rob decides she needs to go out after all.
Goofy, lived-in banter ensues, followed by more of the same with Carlos at the bodega.
She told him it was for a road trip shes planning, soooo is there a theme?
Rob admits theres no road trip.
Simon: I know.
So the theme is…
Rob, shrugging: Love?
Simon is taken aback, and sees Robs playlist obsession in a new light.
She swears shes only creating it as a therapeutic exercise, not for Mac himself.
As the trio rolls up to the bar, we get our first gentrification alert.
Ice cold, but very reasonably so, Mac has gone to bed without her.
Mac is, so they kiss and make up.
This allusion to Mac moving on romantically at all is too much; Rob ghosts them immediately.
Rounding the corner from the restaurant, she screams directly into the camera, WHAT!
LILY GIRL?!!!!
This will certainly end well.
There was no winking acknowledgment of Bonets role in the film in this episode.
- Musical cue of the episode: its a challenge to choose from this embarrassment of riches.
