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One of my favorite television tropes is how people are always dressing so inappropriately for funerals.
This is true no matter how high or lowbrow the show.
(Even Fleabag looked ravishing at her moms funeral.
No matter how hard she tried, her hair kept falling in that really chic way!)
Delilahs dress is an especially eyebrow-raising choice for a graveside situation, but lets not discount Amy/Candaces attire.
Just really questionable choices all around, from everyone but Gabe, who looks fantastic.
(He also brought the best gossip: I heard they found his body in a sex dungeon.)
Who brings a date to a funeral?
Arguably its thebiggestthing, no offense to weddings.
I also love that Kathy Griffin is on hand to give a eulogy.
In that post-funeral rush, Forty asks Amy to move in with him.
He runs away to nurse his sorrow with a matcha.
By the end of this episode, Joe will catch em all.
Must he say in a city that disgusts him for the rest of his haunted life?
Speaking of haunted lives: Its Loves anniversary with her late husband.
Another rare glimpse into an inner life that isnt Joes!
Both she and her husband are using golden parachute wrong, though, and its very distracting.
I think what they mean is … just a safety net?
Like a regular one?
I suppose it could also be gold.
The balcony sprite is playing caretaker, calling her sister Jessica Jones (all my recaps are connected!)
and prescribing four ibuprofen and a xanny.
Delilah does not have time to medicate or bond.
She has to work.
Later she will say, unironically, that she is trying to topple the patriarchy from her two-bedroom apartment.
Honestly I would be cool with it if we just retired the word patriarchy for a few forevers.
Forty tells Joe that hes getting a producer credit on the Beck movie.
Will he be back in time for donuts with Love?
Hes an hour late and clocks this guy in a Toyota who hes pretty sure is following him.
YOU IN DANGER GIRL.
Love insists this is just a thing that people with money do.
Maybe some people have too much money then?
Candace gives Forty the slip so she can scope out Joes apartment.
When Joe gets home, Ellie drags him for dripping in hoo-ha.
(Do you really call someone a ginger if its obvious theyre dyeing their hair?)
He goes to her house but then twist!
The attacker becomes the attacked!
Its not Candace, though; its the girl whose house shes renting.
Who just so happens to be a dominatrix who isreallygood at tying knots.
You poor pathetic boy, says his captor, dumping out the contents of his backpack.
You went to Home Depot.
I … love her??
She is my new favorite character.
And who does she find there?
Love who learned from her P.I.
(To be fair, Forty isnt an indie filmmaker so much as hes barely a barista.)
But of course she sounds completely insane.
When Joe comes home, Love is there, icing cinnamon buns.
I CANNOT with Love here.
Like … thats not really an equivalent lie?
But no, its just salt.
This is its greatest flaw.
Candace also told Love about Beck, but Joe insists he and Beck only went on one date.
Love says Candace is gone for real, that she threatened her and gave her money.
Joe, desperate, tells Love hes never loved anyone like this before.
Love feels the same, but oh well, shes dumping him anyway.
I writenow shes DEFINITELY gonna die :(.
At Anavrin the next day, Joe attempts to quit his job.
Delilah is fuming about how this town enables rapists.
I write in my notesDELILAH GO TO THERAPY DO NOT GO TO JOE, yo DO NOT HOOK UP.
and Delilah kicks him out.
So she still has some common sense.
I will hold onto this.
It is all that I have in this cruel world, where palm trees burn in the night.
