Hart of Dixie - 2.1 I Fall to Pieces
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shallownessAll the regulars and not just Zoe are in the credit pic now. I’m a little sad that we seem to have departed from the alliterative episode titles.
Instead of immediately following up from season 1, we got…a tractor (and the clean-up on the morning after the storm/wedding that wasn’t). Zoe tried to delegate what to do next to Lavon, but didn’t like his good advice. Entitled!George figured out Zoe had slept with Wade, who only now learned George had called the wedding off, because all Zoe had done was to claim to be too tired for more sex after George’s monologue
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While I scoffed at Lemon claiming she would rise again, I approved of her deciding she’d get a job so she didn’t have to get her daddy to co-sign her application for a rental. (Did she need to do it the day after her wedding was called off? Probably not, but this show is this show.) I was distracted by wondering what she studied at college and how she seems to have turned 30 offscreen.
Wade pretended not to have feelings about the sex thing or the George thing, or indeed Zoe (liar.) She ried to psychoanalyse him. His claim tht Zoe had been a B- for him was always going to be a big motivator for her. (Again, liar.)
Enter Ruby, who I decided I liked when she clearly got under Lemon’s skin. Presumably she’s going to cause trouble, what with knowing everyone and especially her history with Lavon, who did come off badly.
A knife-wielding Lemon turned up at Zoe’s, as you do. Initially Zoe jumped to the worst conclusion and her dire attempt at self-defence was a thing of beauty. Turned out Lemon was having a panic attack (maybe Dr Zoe was a little too quick to hand out the Valium?) but I loved Zoe’s unsympathetic doctoring being the best medicine for Lemon and the two women talking it out like antagonistic women did offer both perspective. Outside, Bluebell – well, mainly it’s men – got hysterical over what they thought was happening inside.
Wade finally got a hint of the Lemon/Lavon thing. Somewhat inevitably (okay, because Wade was crude and lied), George and Wade did end up in a ridiculous fight. Lemon had to face the town, but had got to the point where she could say out loud that the break-up was no-one’s fault. Zoe told George she was choosing no one, or more accurately not him right now, because after fifteen years with Lemon, he too needed to figure out who he was without her, Lemon told her father to let her try to be independent, and Wade offered her a job at the Rammer Jammer in the vain hope he could boss her around.
Zoe then went to tell Wade that she was choosing no one, but got waylaid into turning into an irresistible ball of fury and the episode ended on them on the verge of having enthusiastic sex again. While they both pretend they haven’t got any feelings about that. (Liars.)
The show seems to have responded to season 1 and what happened in the finale by shaking up the characters’ interactions a lot. Some of that was inevitable, such as George and Lemon barely interacting, but I note Lemon didn’t interact with Lavon either. The breakfast club didn’t meet and Wade and Lavon didn’t talk alone. Based on having dipped into the fandom, in season 1, there was certainly more interest in Zoe/Wade than in any other ship.
I'm not sure I'll be posting episode by episode, but my viewing patterns have definitely changed. Some of that's down to Strictly returning and It Takes Two being on when I binge watched season 1, but I've also been reading 'The Ink Black Heart', which I've finished. I'll post that when I've worked out what I want to say about it.
Instead of immediately following up from season 1, we got…a tractor (and the clean-up on the morning after the storm/wedding that wasn’t). Zoe tried to delegate what to do next to Lavon, but didn’t like his good advice. Entitled!George figured out Zoe had slept with Wade, who only now learned George had called the wedding off, because all Zoe had done was to claim to be too tired for more sex after George’s monologue
.
While I scoffed at Lemon claiming she would rise again, I approved of her deciding she’d get a job so she didn’t have to get her daddy to co-sign her application for a rental. (Did she need to do it the day after her wedding was called off? Probably not, but this show is this show.) I was distracted by wondering what she studied at college and how she seems to have turned 30 offscreen.
Wade pretended not to have feelings about the sex thing or the George thing, or indeed Zoe (liar.) She ried to psychoanalyse him. His claim tht Zoe had been a B- for him was always going to be a big motivator for her. (Again, liar.)
Enter Ruby, who I decided I liked when she clearly got under Lemon’s skin. Presumably she’s going to cause trouble, what with knowing everyone and especially her history with Lavon, who did come off badly.
A knife-wielding Lemon turned up at Zoe’s, as you do. Initially Zoe jumped to the worst conclusion and her dire attempt at self-defence was a thing of beauty. Turned out Lemon was having a panic attack (maybe Dr Zoe was a little too quick to hand out the Valium?) but I loved Zoe’s unsympathetic doctoring being the best medicine for Lemon and the two women talking it out like antagonistic women did offer both perspective. Outside, Bluebell – well, mainly it’s men – got hysterical over what they thought was happening inside.
Wade finally got a hint of the Lemon/Lavon thing. Somewhat inevitably (okay, because Wade was crude and lied), George and Wade did end up in a ridiculous fight. Lemon had to face the town, but had got to the point where she could say out loud that the break-up was no-one’s fault. Zoe told George she was choosing no one, or more accurately not him right now, because after fifteen years with Lemon, he too needed to figure out who he was without her, Lemon told her father to let her try to be independent, and Wade offered her a job at the Rammer Jammer in the vain hope he could boss her around.
Zoe then went to tell Wade that she was choosing no one, but got waylaid into turning into an irresistible ball of fury and the episode ended on them on the verge of having enthusiastic sex again. While they both pretend they haven’t got any feelings about that. (Liars.)
The show seems to have responded to season 1 and what happened in the finale by shaking up the characters’ interactions a lot. Some of that was inevitable, such as George and Lemon barely interacting, but I note Lemon didn’t interact with Lavon either. The breakfast club didn’t meet and Wade and Lavon didn’t talk alone. Based on having dipped into the fandom, in season 1, there was certainly more interest in Zoe/Wade than in any other ship.
I'm not sure I'll be posting episode by episode, but my viewing patterns have definitely changed. Some of that's down to Strictly returning and It Takes Two being on when I binge watched season 1, but I've also been reading 'The Ink Black Heart', which I've finished. I'll post that when I've worked out what I want to say about it.
