I Am the Night
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Hopefully, the show can find the urgency again next week.
(We learn that through on-the-nose dialogue like I lost my entire life!
which is a running problem in this episode.)
Fauna shows up at the Hodel home, looking for her creepy grandpa.
She asserts that shes really mixed-race, but some of the partygoers dont believe her.
Rather than rekindle old passions, he goes back to his Tamar Hodel obsession.
Now get to it.
The her she speaks of is Tamar Hodel, who mom calls the goddess of deceit.
Corinna takes Fauna on a little field trip to the Hodel art collection.
She also claims that art is mankinds noblest endeavor, and all that remains after we die.
Think about these scenes practically for a minute.
While theyre looking around, George himself whisks through, whispering Faunas name.
Its a moment like the bus-stop meeting.
Hes haunting her before they even meet.
His response: Everything.
Safe bet is that Jay learns next week that Janices new beau was a creepy doctor named George.
Jay gets high before he leaves.
And Corinna drops the biggest bomb yet on Fauna: Youre not black, you boring girl.
Tamar lied on her birth certificate about Faunas father.
Corinna claims it was a French ballet dancer.
A bus pulls up incredibly fast and Fauna boards, stunned at what she just heard.
It was reportedly a regular hang for Charles Bukowski.
Heres aninteresting articleabout it.
Hes played by a young man named Astro, a.k.a.
Brian Bradley, and he also appears in an upcoming film calledLuce, which just premiered at Sundance.
Speaking of talented actors, Chris Pine is really holding this thing together, isnt he?
Hes fantastic and doing a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to the shows overall flaws.
Lets hope it doesnt become too much for him to carry.
