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Hart of Dixie - 2.2 to 2.4
2.2 ‘Always on My Mind’ –
The Zade of it all: Zoe was definitely not having sex with Wade any more, why, she even bet him she wouldn’t. (Meanwhile, I thought George was in danger of turning into Dawson around Zoe.)
But Wade ended up in Zoe’s car giving her directions to an ex in Mobil who’d become a singing star to help Rose, (also on this little road trip), which was how Zoe learned that Wade was giving George advice on how to pick up a lady, while Wade learned that Zoe had feelings about that (and maybe he had feelings about her feelings).
Zoe’s conscious mind thought she could distract Wade with his ex and win the bet, but her subconscious didn’t like the idea of someone else having sex with Wade and so she ruined the whole gig, exasperated Wade and was about to let Rose down, until she begged George to sing, which he did well (in harmony with Wade). And all the ladies of the town noticed.
Lavon called Zoe out on not wanting either man to sleep with anyone else, and torn!Zoe was left empathising with teenager Rose.
Everyone else: Lavon got to say ‘Nah’ a lot. Lemon was a terrible waitress and Wade was too scared to tell her so. (Predictable, that.) Ditto his boss. But she was so bad she endangered Emily’s health, although when George tried to comfort Lemon about this, his semi-successful attempt to pick up a volleyball player was finito. By the end of the ep, Lavon learned that, as he’d initially suspected but had been dissuaded of, Ruby was up to something – running against him as Mayor.
Things that have concerned me in the past: First, was that Magnolia being the perfectly competent warm-up act? Secondly, somehow, Rose was able to set up a concert in Bluebell in about 24 hours flat. Thirdly, Zoe’s got a car now. I thought they’d make a bigger deal of that, but it may have been governed by product placement rules.
2.3 ‘If It Makes You Happy’
The Dr Zoc and Wade of it all: After declaring the bet and offer of more sex were off because of Zoe’s Roseapalooza fail, Wade was painting Zoe’s house shirtless (why? Apart from the obvious.)
Meanwhile Zoe’s attempt to impress the writer coming to write her up for her alumni magazine predictably failed on the early first impression test. BUT I was taken by how she knows most of the Rammer Jammer’s clientele now as their doctor.
Zoe then decided that Tom’s rash might be leprosy. Wade rightly deduced that she was reaching for something to make her look better in the piece on her, but she still made him take her to Earl, who was a bit unwell and might be patient zero. Earl blabbed that Wade was always talking about Zoe, ‘his girlfriend’. Wade claimed his father meant ‘always complaining about Zoe’ which neither Zoe nor I bought. They then went on an armadillo hunt. Because even if she’s as childish as Wade, Dr Zoe Hart reads medical journals.
Wade would later call her out on not letting herself be happy (by having sex with him) because of what she thought her life ought to be and not owning her choices (such as being a GP in Bluebell). So, it took an armadillo to get them to talk a bit about their feelings.
(Tom didn’t have leprosy, but good GP Zoe diagnosed what was really going on there. There was an interesting contrast between Tom and Wanda and sex and Zoe and Wade and sex. And I say that as someone who wrinkled my nose at the show finding Tom/Wanda more charming than I do.)
Tom and George told Zoe to be happy so she came to Wade’s at the end of the ep asking if they could play video games, which he was rather sweet about while also wanting to make it all about sex. But they ended up sitting side by side smiling and flirting.
The rest: Ruby had shown up Lavon’s arrogance about remaining mayor.
George came to tell Lemon he was going to date someone. She responded by seeing the break-up as a competition and planning her own hook up, and inveigling AnnaBeth as her wingwoman. She spotted a George stand-in, I mean, potential target BUT Ruby was in competition (I loved that AB was most irked that Cricket was hanging out with Ruby).
Brick decided to spoil George’s first date with an out of towner (who had indeed spotted him singing in the previous ep). Lavon was the one who made Geogre and Brick talk and hug it out (rather than wake a sleeping baby up) eventually and found his answer to Ruby’s pointed question about why he wanted to be mayor.
Lemon had used the taking off the cardigan move to nab the random guy, but when he kissed her, she realised that she wasn’t ready (ya think?), and ended up at AB’s houseboat where her old friend (does Lemon deserve AnnaBeth? I think not) got her to face reality and return to her good intentions to be an independent woman. Lemon got offered a home and realised an episode after I did that she should co-ordinate Lavon’s re-election campaign. He certainly felt the ‘force of nature’.
2.4 'Suspicious Minds'
The ‘Zoe’ and ‘Wade’ of it all: They were having fun with sexy role play and seeming to enjoy the casualness of it all (hmm) at the start of the ep.
Zoe was trying not to be friends with Ruby out of loyalty to Lavon, but she was offering to hook Zoe up with a cousin. Zoe felt she couldn’t because, y’know, of the whole Wade situation (her ‘Wade went to prom!?’ was PERFECT!), but went over to his all dressed up/down for a sexy night to find that he was entertaining other company (a blonde), and had left a sock on the door, so maybe they had different ideas of their casual sex thing.
Zoe confided in Ruby (as Lavon wouldn’t listen to her talk about Wade) about her woes, and Ruby suggested Zoe talk to Wade, a perfectly sensible suggestion, but not what Zoe did, of course. Instead she tried to flirt with Wade while telling him she was dating Ruby’s cousin, but he didn’t react as she expected so she moved her date with Zack to the Rammer Jammer, where she was, again, obssessed with Wade (shades of Judson and the sweetie pie dance) and on her way to getting drunk.
The ep ended on Zoe coming to talk to Wade, as Ruby suggested, and discovered there was a non-sexual reason for the blonde’s visit (indeed, it was because of the work he’s doing on her abode) and even for the sock. In Zoe’s defence, the two things together looked bad. She got him to agree to be monogamously casual (duh, he’s more into you than he’ll admit), and it ended on some more role play, although I wasn’t amused at Wade not listening to Zoe’s boundaries about spanking. I mean, what? He felt he’d ceded enough on the monogamy, when it was fairly clear he wasn’t interested in anyone else? Or he knows better on this? It made me grumble.
And then I started overthinking whether all this roleplay meant that the two idiots couldn’t trust themselves to be Zoe and Wade, really enjoying having sex with each other. And Lavon is probably right, Zoe isn’t the type who can do casual sex, she ultimately wants a relationship with more. I think Wade is sticking to this familiar territory because he can’t deal with his unfamiliar emtions, and knows that (Doctor) Zoe does want more (and he’s afraid he can’t live up to it.) Shipping these two idiots so hard.
The rest: Wade offered George advice on how to break up with Shelby from the previous ep, who he was somehow dating despite their incompatibility.
Lavon tried not to hire Lemon because ‘they’d never been friends’. A line used by Wade with Zoe. (I think the test will be whether he can restrain her from doing something really dodgy.)
I was on the same page as Cricket on suspecting that Lemon was pregnant, but a little higher up. The silly (Lemon) tried to buy a pregnancy test in Bluebell but ended up shoplifting it. But Lavon covered for her (fairly implausibly in the real world, but not in Bluebell) by claiming he’d forgotten to pay for it and it was for Burt Reynolds. But the sheriff got called in. Which a drunk Zoe blurted out in front of Ruby when Wade told her more stealthily. And Ruby betrayed her by breaking it to ‘the press’.
Wade tried to defend Lavon’s honour at the scene of the crime, but worked out Lemon was the culprit and soberly called George, who came to the houseboat to find that Lemon was not pregnant – he diagnosed that she was seasick and insisted that they swop accommodation !?!? (It isn’t clear whether Lavon is paying Lemon for her work, BTW.)
Lemon started to make right the damage to Lavon’s reputation, and Lavon, who had been really nice to her, said they were friends now. He even forgave Zoe and put up with her talking about Wade. George broke up with Shelby tactlessly and got slapped for it. This was before the spanking thing, and also played for laughs. Maybe it was a little funnier when the show first aired.
The Zade of it all: Zoe was definitely not having sex with Wade any more, why, she even bet him she wouldn’t. (Meanwhile, I thought George was in danger of turning into Dawson around Zoe.)
But Wade ended up in Zoe’s car giving her directions to an ex in Mobil who’d become a singing star to help Rose, (also on this little road trip), which was how Zoe learned that Wade was giving George advice on how to pick up a lady, while Wade learned that Zoe had feelings about that (and maybe he had feelings about her feelings).
Zoe’s conscious mind thought she could distract Wade with his ex and win the bet, but her subconscious didn’t like the idea of someone else having sex with Wade and so she ruined the whole gig, exasperated Wade and was about to let Rose down, until she begged George to sing, which he did well (in harmony with Wade). And all the ladies of the town noticed.
Lavon called Zoe out on not wanting either man to sleep with anyone else, and torn!Zoe was left empathising with teenager Rose.
Everyone else: Lavon got to say ‘Nah’ a lot. Lemon was a terrible waitress and Wade was too scared to tell her so. (Predictable, that.) Ditto his boss. But she was so bad she endangered Emily’s health, although when George tried to comfort Lemon about this, his semi-successful attempt to pick up a volleyball player was finito. By the end of the ep, Lavon learned that, as he’d initially suspected but had been dissuaded of, Ruby was up to something – running against him as Mayor.
Things that have concerned me in the past: First, was that Magnolia being the perfectly competent warm-up act? Secondly, somehow, Rose was able to set up a concert in Bluebell in about 24 hours flat. Thirdly, Zoe’s got a car now. I thought they’d make a bigger deal of that, but it may have been governed by product placement rules.
2.3 ‘If It Makes You Happy’
The Dr Zoc and Wade of it all: After declaring the bet and offer of more sex were off because of Zoe’s Roseapalooza fail, Wade was painting Zoe’s house shirtless (why? Apart from the obvious.)
Meanwhile Zoe’s attempt to impress the writer coming to write her up for her alumni magazine predictably failed on the early first impression test. BUT I was taken by how she knows most of the Rammer Jammer’s clientele now as their doctor.
Zoe then decided that Tom’s rash might be leprosy. Wade rightly deduced that she was reaching for something to make her look better in the piece on her, but she still made him take her to Earl, who was a bit unwell and might be patient zero. Earl blabbed that Wade was always talking about Zoe, ‘his girlfriend’. Wade claimed his father meant ‘always complaining about Zoe’ which neither Zoe nor I bought. They then went on an armadillo hunt. Because even if she’s as childish as Wade, Dr Zoe Hart reads medical journals.
Wade would later call her out on not letting herself be happy (by having sex with him) because of what she thought her life ought to be and not owning her choices (such as being a GP in Bluebell). So, it took an armadillo to get them to talk a bit about their feelings.
(Tom didn’t have leprosy, but good GP Zoe diagnosed what was really going on there. There was an interesting contrast between Tom and Wanda and sex and Zoe and Wade and sex. And I say that as someone who wrinkled my nose at the show finding Tom/Wanda more charming than I do.)
Tom and George told Zoe to be happy so she came to Wade’s at the end of the ep asking if they could play video games, which he was rather sweet about while also wanting to make it all about sex. But they ended up sitting side by side smiling and flirting.
The rest: Ruby had shown up Lavon’s arrogance about remaining mayor.
George came to tell Lemon he was going to date someone. She responded by seeing the break-up as a competition and planning her own hook up, and inveigling AnnaBeth as her wingwoman. She spotted a George stand-in, I mean, potential target BUT Ruby was in competition (I loved that AB was most irked that Cricket was hanging out with Ruby).
Brick decided to spoil George’s first date with an out of towner (who had indeed spotted him singing in the previous ep). Lavon was the one who made Geogre and Brick talk and hug it out (rather than wake a sleeping baby up) eventually and found his answer to Ruby’s pointed question about why he wanted to be mayor.
Lemon had used the taking off the cardigan move to nab the random guy, but when he kissed her, she realised that she wasn’t ready (ya think?), and ended up at AB’s houseboat where her old friend (does Lemon deserve AnnaBeth? I think not) got her to face reality and return to her good intentions to be an independent woman. Lemon got offered a home and realised an episode after I did that she should co-ordinate Lavon’s re-election campaign. He certainly felt the ‘force of nature’.
2.4 'Suspicious Minds'
The ‘Zoe’ and ‘Wade’ of it all: They were having fun with sexy role play and seeming to enjoy the casualness of it all (hmm) at the start of the ep.
Zoe was trying not to be friends with Ruby out of loyalty to Lavon, but she was offering to hook Zoe up with a cousin. Zoe felt she couldn’t because, y’know, of the whole Wade situation (her ‘Wade went to prom!?’ was PERFECT!), but went over to his all dressed up/down for a sexy night to find that he was entertaining other company (a blonde), and had left a sock on the door, so maybe they had different ideas of their casual sex thing.
Zoe confided in Ruby (as Lavon wouldn’t listen to her talk about Wade) about her woes, and Ruby suggested Zoe talk to Wade, a perfectly sensible suggestion, but not what Zoe did, of course. Instead she tried to flirt with Wade while telling him she was dating Ruby’s cousin, but he didn’t react as she expected so she moved her date with Zack to the Rammer Jammer, where she was, again, obssessed with Wade (shades of Judson and the sweetie pie dance) and on her way to getting drunk.
The ep ended on Zoe coming to talk to Wade, as Ruby suggested, and discovered there was a non-sexual reason for the blonde’s visit (indeed, it was because of the work he’s doing on her abode) and even for the sock. In Zoe’s defence, the two things together looked bad. She got him to agree to be monogamously casual (duh, he’s more into you than he’ll admit), and it ended on some more role play, although I wasn’t amused at Wade not listening to Zoe’s boundaries about spanking. I mean, what? He felt he’d ceded enough on the monogamy, when it was fairly clear he wasn’t interested in anyone else? Or he knows better on this? It made me grumble.
And then I started overthinking whether all this roleplay meant that the two idiots couldn’t trust themselves to be Zoe and Wade, really enjoying having sex with each other. And Lavon is probably right, Zoe isn’t the type who can do casual sex, she ultimately wants a relationship with more. I think Wade is sticking to this familiar territory because he can’t deal with his unfamiliar emtions, and knows that (Doctor) Zoe does want more (and he’s afraid he can’t live up to it.) Shipping these two idiots so hard.
The rest: Wade offered George advice on how to break up with Shelby from the previous ep, who he was somehow dating despite their incompatibility.
Lavon tried not to hire Lemon because ‘they’d never been friends’. A line used by Wade with Zoe. (I think the test will be whether he can restrain her from doing something really dodgy.)
I was on the same page as Cricket on suspecting that Lemon was pregnant, but a little higher up. The silly (Lemon) tried to buy a pregnancy test in Bluebell but ended up shoplifting it. But Lavon covered for her (fairly implausibly in the real world, but not in Bluebell) by claiming he’d forgotten to pay for it and it was for Burt Reynolds. But the sheriff got called in. Which a drunk Zoe blurted out in front of Ruby when Wade told her more stealthily. And Ruby betrayed her by breaking it to ‘the press’.
Wade tried to defend Lavon’s honour at the scene of the crime, but worked out Lemon was the culprit and soberly called George, who came to the houseboat to find that Lemon was not pregnant – he diagnosed that she was seasick and insisted that they swop accommodation !?!? (It isn’t clear whether Lavon is paying Lemon for her work, BTW.)
Lemon started to make right the damage to Lavon’s reputation, and Lavon, who had been really nice to her, said they were friends now. He even forgave Zoe and put up with her talking about Wade. George broke up with Shelby tactlessly and got slapped for it. This was before the spanking thing, and also played for laughs. Maybe it was a little funnier when the show first aired.