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HoD 2.16 Where I Lead Me
First sighting of Burt Reynolds since I don’t know when, and, as we haven’t seen him, the way he snapped at the takeaway breakfast was a bit disturbing.
The morning after the previous episode ended, and Zoe couldn’t find or get a hold of Wade. It was unclear whether Tansy was twitchier about George feeling he should talk to Wade (who’d left the bar with some random woman, which I hadn’t clocked) or the announcement that Tom and Wanda were getting married in two days’ time, and Wanda wanted Tansy to be a bridesmaid.
Zoe thought the wedding was too soon and suggested Wanda’s hives were from the stress of getting married so fast. Cricket thought Lemon might be stressed at the very idea of another wedding in Bluebell since the last one had been hers and had been a disaster, and prescribed a psychic. Lemon had already drawn up a document to dissolve the company overnight (with no help from George, so I’m going to assume she had it ready just in case.)
And Lavon was having mayoral problems because the mayor of Phillmore was proposing to build a shopping mall in a spot that would harm Bluebell. Apparently, he’s the father of Tansy’s crazy ex, so George was distracted from talking to Wade to help fight that.
Zoe overheard some random women talking about how Wade had left the bar with a companion, so when she found him coming out of her shower (not looking as if he’d been anywhere near water) she accused him of cheating and vented her worry all at the same time. He was clearly hungover and claimed he’d spent the night in his car (the story featured a rundown car battery and a rundown phone. Hmm.) He didn’t talk about how he’d started drinking early and that that was why he’d lost the BoB. Zoe got distracted because Tom was accusing her of ruining his wedding with her medical advice. (She’s got form, after all.)
It turned out it was family (or more specifically mother)-related stress that was bringing on Wanda’s hives, and so she asked Zoe to be her maid of honour. Her chief duty was mother watch. This would lead to the recurring joke of Zoe losing Betsy, heh.
The psychic told Lemon she’d already met her life’s companion, so she…bumped into someone she’d known in second grade and invited him to be her date at her wedding. Cricket didn’t see the flaw in that logic either, but Annabeth noted that he’d been home schooled since third grade and was weird. So, she turned up at Lemon’s dinner date to offer an out for her. Which Lemon was desperate enough to take. (Brick was out of town because there were a LOT of characters in this ep. Come to think of it, they didn’t even bother to explain away Magnolia’s absence.)
Lavon witnessed Philmore’s lawyer getting under George’s skin and turning George into a self-proclaimed litigation monster. Ohhkay.
Zoe and Wade were clearly out of sync, and as he acted the loving boyfriend and repeated his story to an accusatory George, I became more uneasy. Tom asked Wade to be his best man, in part to get sex tips to which Wade was all ‘Ew.’ But he agreed to be best man in a way that made me side eye him even more (i.e. he wanted to suck up to Zoe).
Once found, the mother of the bride told Zoe she refused to go to the wedding, but Tansy ordered Zoe to sort out the mess, and so Zoe did. This meant listening to Betsy tell the ballad of the wronged wife, which Zoe realised was all too familiar. Despite admitting she wasn’t all right, she had her priorities straight – Wanda – and ordered Betty to get dressed (while dressed a bit like an elf herself.) Wade had to talk Tom out of the funk he’d got into by comparing himself with Ryan Gosling’s abs. The groom’s party were dressed as Jedi, as Tom and Wanda are very generic geeks.
Lemon was getting pitied at the hairdresser, but Annabeth indirectly suggested they could go to the wedding as sad single women together. Annabeth was almost stalking Lemon as much this episode as the previous one, only not using the app, presumably. As it turned out, with all the Jedi and elves and a flower girl with Leia hair leading Tom’s pet, I don’t know that Lemon was going to be struck by the similarities with her wedding that wasn’t.
George still had too much adrenaline in his system after getting a win on the Philmore mall, but when Tansy heard his version of his talk with Wade, she correctly deduced from the all too familiar lies that Wade had cheated on Zoe. Zoe wouldn’t take Wade’s arm as they walked down the aisle and whispered ‘I know’ after the ceremony. The vows were so on the nose that it’s a surprise the actors didn’t deliver them more nasally, but A1 for giving Zoe her dignity.
Which she retained during the confirmatory conversation with Wade, where he admitted what he’d done, clearly ruing it, and Zoe claimed ‘they were too different’, but he was left under no illusion about how much he’d hurt her. I was a bit confused about the exchange about Zoe apologising for pushing Wade and what she’d meant by his reaction. Was that how he’d responded to her face, or the whole cheating thing?
Anyway, Lemon admitted AB might be her life’s companion (and never gave a thought to whether AB might have found prep for her wedding difficult given that she’d been dumped by her husband/ Lemon doesn’t deserve AB for the hundredth time.) Betsy learned that Zoe and Wade were dunzo and said Zoe’d meet her own weirdo. If there are any remaining Zoe/George shippers, they might have got some hope from a pumped-up George’s response to seeing Wade enter the after-wedding party. Lavon and Tansy saw what he was aiming to do, and Tansy was quick and quick thinking enough to attack Wade first so that George couldn’t beat him to a pulp.
Finally Lavon went to Zoe and insisted she danced, and if the show is going to pursue Zoe/Lavon, I would politely query why they’ve made them so platonic for nearly two seasons. (Never mnd that the triangle with Lemon and Annabeth clearly hasn’trun its course.) Tom/Wanda were cute, and as a tertiary couple, they’ll probably make it fine.
It was in no way subtle, but it hit its spots.
As a shipper, I'm glum. [Edited for typos 27/5/25.]
The morning after the previous episode ended, and Zoe couldn’t find or get a hold of Wade. It was unclear whether Tansy was twitchier about George feeling he should talk to Wade (who’d left the bar with some random woman, which I hadn’t clocked) or the announcement that Tom and Wanda were getting married in two days’ time, and Wanda wanted Tansy to be a bridesmaid.
Zoe thought the wedding was too soon and suggested Wanda’s hives were from the stress of getting married so fast. Cricket thought Lemon might be stressed at the very idea of another wedding in Bluebell since the last one had been hers and had been a disaster, and prescribed a psychic. Lemon had already drawn up a document to dissolve the company overnight (with no help from George, so I’m going to assume she had it ready just in case.)
And Lavon was having mayoral problems because the mayor of Phillmore was proposing to build a shopping mall in a spot that would harm Bluebell. Apparently, he’s the father of Tansy’s crazy ex, so George was distracted from talking to Wade to help fight that.
Zoe overheard some random women talking about how Wade had left the bar with a companion, so when she found him coming out of her shower (not looking as if he’d been anywhere near water) she accused him of cheating and vented her worry all at the same time. He was clearly hungover and claimed he’d spent the night in his car (the story featured a rundown car battery and a rundown phone. Hmm.) He didn’t talk about how he’d started drinking early and that that was why he’d lost the BoB. Zoe got distracted because Tom was accusing her of ruining his wedding with her medical advice. (She’s got form, after all.)
It turned out it was family (or more specifically mother)-related stress that was bringing on Wanda’s hives, and so she asked Zoe to be her maid of honour. Her chief duty was mother watch. This would lead to the recurring joke of Zoe losing Betsy, heh.
The psychic told Lemon she’d already met her life’s companion, so she…bumped into someone she’d known in second grade and invited him to be her date at her wedding. Cricket didn’t see the flaw in that logic either, but Annabeth noted that he’d been home schooled since third grade and was weird. So, she turned up at Lemon’s dinner date to offer an out for her. Which Lemon was desperate enough to take. (Brick was out of town because there were a LOT of characters in this ep. Come to think of it, they didn’t even bother to explain away Magnolia’s absence.)
Lavon witnessed Philmore’s lawyer getting under George’s skin and turning George into a self-proclaimed litigation monster. Ohhkay.
Zoe and Wade were clearly out of sync, and as he acted the loving boyfriend and repeated his story to an accusatory George, I became more uneasy. Tom asked Wade to be his best man, in part to get sex tips to which Wade was all ‘Ew.’ But he agreed to be best man in a way that made me side eye him even more (i.e. he wanted to suck up to Zoe).
Once found, the mother of the bride told Zoe she refused to go to the wedding, but Tansy ordered Zoe to sort out the mess, and so Zoe did. This meant listening to Betsy tell the ballad of the wronged wife, which Zoe realised was all too familiar. Despite admitting she wasn’t all right, she had her priorities straight – Wanda – and ordered Betty to get dressed (while dressed a bit like an elf herself.) Wade had to talk Tom out of the funk he’d got into by comparing himself with Ryan Gosling’s abs. The groom’s party were dressed as Jedi, as Tom and Wanda are very generic geeks.
Lemon was getting pitied at the hairdresser, but Annabeth indirectly suggested they could go to the wedding as sad single women together. Annabeth was almost stalking Lemon as much this episode as the previous one, only not using the app, presumably. As it turned out, with all the Jedi and elves and a flower girl with Leia hair leading Tom’s pet, I don’t know that Lemon was going to be struck by the similarities with her wedding that wasn’t.
George still had too much adrenaline in his system after getting a win on the Philmore mall, but when Tansy heard his version of his talk with Wade, she correctly deduced from the all too familiar lies that Wade had cheated on Zoe. Zoe wouldn’t take Wade’s arm as they walked down the aisle and whispered ‘I know’ after the ceremony. The vows were so on the nose that it’s a surprise the actors didn’t deliver them more nasally, but A1 for giving Zoe her dignity.
Which she retained during the confirmatory conversation with Wade, where he admitted what he’d done, clearly ruing it, and Zoe claimed ‘they were too different’, but he was left under no illusion about how much he’d hurt her. I was a bit confused about the exchange about Zoe apologising for pushing Wade and what she’d meant by his reaction. Was that how he’d responded to her face, or the whole cheating thing?
Anyway, Lemon admitted AB might be her life’s companion (and never gave a thought to whether AB might have found prep for her wedding difficult given that she’d been dumped by her husband/ Lemon doesn’t deserve AB for the hundredth time.) Betsy learned that Zoe and Wade were dunzo and said Zoe’d meet her own weirdo. If there are any remaining Zoe/George shippers, they might have got some hope from a pumped-up George’s response to seeing Wade enter the after-wedding party. Lavon and Tansy saw what he was aiming to do, and Tansy was quick and quick thinking enough to attack Wade first so that George couldn’t beat him to a pulp.
Finally Lavon went to Zoe and insisted she danced, and if the show is going to pursue Zoe/Lavon, I would politely query why they’ve made them so platonic for nearly two seasons. (Never mnd that the triangle with Lemon and Annabeth clearly hasn’trun its course.) Tom/Wanda were cute, and as a tertiary couple, they’ll probably make it fine.
It was in no way subtle, but it hit its spots.
As a shipper, I'm glum. [Edited for typos 27/5/25.]