The Eddy
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The New Orleans-born tradition of jazz funerals begins in somberness and ends in music and celebration.
Theres the official funeral, with formal catering, hushed conversation, and Farids disapproving parents.
That comes with all the expected awkwardness and tension.
Then theres the after-funeral, an explosive, tearful, tuneful celebration of Farids life.
The episode makes clear which comes closer to capturing Farids spirit, and his likely wishes.
Its the first time weve gotten a real glimpse of The Eddy in happier times.
Elliots with Maja and they dance and kiss happily alongside Farid and Amira.
For Elliot, happier is of course a relative term.
Ines is young enough that it doesnt take much to entertain her, but Adams a tougher case.
The episode bears Amiras name as the title, but its Adam who goes through the most intense journey.
Yet the ritual proves harder than hed anticipated.
Still, hes a boy without a father, which wont be easy.
A few details dispersed over the course of the first funeral provide some info on Farids background.
Marrying Amira seems to have been an act of rebellion, and one Farids parents havent forgotten.
When they offer to take Adam off their hands, she treats the suggestion as absurd.
But to them it seems like a rescue effort.
The funeral reveals other sources of tension as well.
Julie does her best to apologize to Sim, but its not enough.
I messed up really bad and Im really sorry, she says.
Thats just the way you are, he replies while walking away.
And who can blame him?
Who needs that kind of trouble?
Whatever budding romance they had now seems to be on a perhaps permanent hold.
Meanwhile, Elliots got trouble of his own.
Oh, and by the way, your daughter goes to a really nice school.
Theres zero chance he doesnt end up getting in even more trouble by trying to get out of it.
But that troubles down the road.
He never met a stranger.
And even when things didnt go his way he could somehow just turn it around.
If anything, Amira probably has the highest level of difficulty of any of the first three episodes.
That raucous memorial service cant have been easy to pull off in such a confined space.
It also features naked pro-environment cyclists, the sight of which briefly breaks the ice between Elliot and Julie.
How could it not?
