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Elodie looks out over the river and gathers her resolve to shake up the status quo.
Its time, she says, because something about all this feels a little fated.
They are bonded by their mutual secret shoplifting habit and their shared sense of being outsiders.
Each of the girls deals with significant traumas or challenges.
Moes father is MIA.
The girls shoplift to distract themselves and to mess with the surface appearance that everything is always all right.
Theyre trying to keep up the sense that everythings always fine, while underneath, theyre rebelling.
In isolated pieces, it can be extremely affecting.
But then, the mechanics of that story just … disappear for a while.
When the plot does pop up again later, everyone is oddly chill about it.
It earns the same level of response as many other of their lesser worries.
Moe has an almost run-in with her dad, a plot that balloons into prominence and then deflates instantly.
By the next episode, his arm gives the impression of completely recovered.
Did he play in the championship game?
Was a scout there?
How did it go?
Theres no way to know!
An earlier version of this review referenced a misheard piece of dialogue.
It has been updated to correct and acknowledge the error.
