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shallownessHart of Dixie: 3.1 Who Says You Can’t Go Home
Nice riposte to the previouslies by letting us know it was five, not three months later, and Zoe was dreaming of being in Bluebell, but waking up in a New York hospital where she was working. She was also hallucinating that she was seeing random people from Bluebell and so ignored actual Rose, who was really there and reamed Zoe out for letting her down in front of Zoe’s new boyfriend. She’d ditched Jonah (good) for a Joel, (who was a walking New York cliché, and not Zoe’s usual clean-shaven type.) He suggested Zoe went back to Bluebell to tie up loose ends and get a recommendation letter for their new apartment from Brick, (oh, you foolish man.)
So, in an echo of the pilot that’s what she did, but there was no George Tucker to give her a ride. Instead, there was a stubbly Wade drinking beer on a jeep in the empty town and telling her everyone was in church…to hear about the latest round of Phllmore vs. Bluebell. Wade claimed he was fine with her not coming back and sending everyone a Dear John e-mail instead. Uh-huh.
Zoe learned that there was no place for her at Lavon’s carriage/guest house, because it had been taken up by a new character. Everyone was cool towards her, mainly because George was MIA because of her, and all the town had to argue with Phillimore was a narcoleptic retired lawyer. Heh.
Cricket was right, Lemon did have a secret but more of a ‘stress reliever’ than a boyfriend. I had mild panic that it wa Wade until I saw them interact, and then wondered if it was Ruby’s grandpa. The only other candidate seemed to be Meatball…
At the practice, Brick was rude to Zoe until she begged and he said that if he she could find George, he would sign her letter of recommendation. He’d refused to previously because he wouldn’t sign his name to her false representations of herself, or so he said. AB popped up because she was now working as the practice receptionsist (but it’s CURSED, AB) to exposit that Magnolia had been packed off to boarding school so the writers only had to write ehr off once not every few eps. She may have exposited something about Shelby that I missed too.
Zoe found George…because he was staying next door at her motel, and had turned into unkempt!George. She asked Wade for a favour, got no help there, and so tried Lemon next. Lemon was indeed able to turn bearded, sad sloth George into the lawyer Bluebell needed, coaxing out that Tansy hadn’t taken too kindly to his writing a song about Zoe and wouldn’t give him a second chance, thus leading to the reclusive half-life. Lemon had great ponytail game here.
The town didn’t hate Zoe any more, but she wasn’t staying for the Founders Day parade, oh no, until Earl crossed her path and asked her to tend to him (he had a nasty wound) because she was family. So, Zoe and Wade had to spend the night taking turns watching Earl in case his blood poisoning reached his heart, as he wouldn’t go to hospital and seemed to think they were meant to be.
In the morning, it turned out he’d be okay. Zoe tried to apologise to Wade and explain that New York was real life (easier) for her. It turned out that New York’s very own Joel had come to Bluebell, and that Wade was one of the things Zoe had neglected to tell her new beau about the town.
We learned that Lemon was sleeping with Meatball (THAT IS DARLING!) ‘We’ included Wade, who was looking as if he’d been out in the sun too long all episode. George, looking good with the new haircut, bumped into Tansy and was OUTRAGED to learn that she was now with Philmore’s lawyer, his nemesis. (I like Tansy, but George/Tansy never had the most chemistry, so I was a little surprised at this development.) Later, he tried to get drunk to forget ‘two years of pain’, but conveniently Lavon’s cousin (who’s name I haven’t bothered to register. In a sentence, she’s demanding enough to get on AB’s last nerve, and clearly fancied a not interested Wade) offered him a no-names-exchanged distraction.
Meanwhile, Lemon, annoyed that Zoe seemed to have nabbed a decent boyfriend, while she was consumed with shame, self-loathing (and lust) regarding Meatball, and her pal Wade was nursing a broken heart under his bravado, decided to claim to Zoe that she and Wade were in a relationship. Gosh, I wonder how many ways that might have unintended consequences.
But it was enjoying being on the parade with Rose (basically the dream footage reused) and Lavon talking about how Zoe had looked like she belonged and various townie greetings that made her think she might want to stay. She asked Walking New Yorker cliché Joel to stay too for her. And he did, although he also said enough to show he was less likely to settle than Zoe had. Lemon was horrified at this turn of events, while Wade, under the influence of his FEELINGS about Zoe acknowledging how well he knew her in one breath and trying to be magnanimous and serious about what she thought were their relationships with other pople decided to go all in for the ruse of being with Lemon, kissing her like it was an act of desperation.
I’m not too excited by that turn of events. I’ve really liked the Wade-Lemon friendship, as much as I like the Zoe-Lavon friendship, and didn’t want to see it messed with for romantic plotlines. I can see the parallels between Lemon’s ‘Eww, I keep sleeping with Meatball’ and Zoe’s past ‘Eww, I
keep sleeping with Wade’, except Wade has always been a more fully formed character than Meatball. Oh well, Meatball’s reaction to all this should be fun…
Some wacky choices from the writers there, along with nods to the s1 finale as well as the pilot.
Nice riposte to the previouslies by letting us know it was five, not three months later, and Zoe was dreaming of being in Bluebell, but waking up in a New York hospital where she was working. She was also hallucinating that she was seeing random people from Bluebell and so ignored actual Rose, who was really there and reamed Zoe out for letting her down in front of Zoe’s new boyfriend. She’d ditched Jonah (good) for a Joel, (who was a walking New York cliché, and not Zoe’s usual clean-shaven type.) He suggested Zoe went back to Bluebell to tie up loose ends and get a recommendation letter for their new apartment from Brick, (oh, you foolish man.)
So, in an echo of the pilot that’s what she did, but there was no George Tucker to give her a ride. Instead, there was a stubbly Wade drinking beer on a jeep in the empty town and telling her everyone was in church…to hear about the latest round of Phllmore vs. Bluebell. Wade claimed he was fine with her not coming back and sending everyone a Dear John e-mail instead. Uh-huh.
Zoe learned that there was no place for her at Lavon’s carriage/guest house, because it had been taken up by a new character. Everyone was cool towards her, mainly because George was MIA because of her, and all the town had to argue with Phillimore was a narcoleptic retired lawyer. Heh.
Cricket was right, Lemon did have a secret but more of a ‘stress reliever’ than a boyfriend. I had mild panic that it wa Wade until I saw them interact, and then wondered if it was Ruby’s grandpa. The only other candidate seemed to be Meatball…
At the practice, Brick was rude to Zoe until she begged and he said that if he she could find George, he would sign her letter of recommendation. He’d refused to previously because he wouldn’t sign his name to her false representations of herself, or so he said. AB popped up because she was now working as the practice receptionsist (but it’s CURSED, AB) to exposit that Magnolia had been packed off to boarding school so the writers only had to write ehr off once not every few eps. She may have exposited something about Shelby that I missed too.
Zoe found George…because he was staying next door at her motel, and had turned into unkempt!George. She asked Wade for a favour, got no help there, and so tried Lemon next. Lemon was indeed able to turn bearded, sad sloth George into the lawyer Bluebell needed, coaxing out that Tansy hadn’t taken too kindly to his writing a song about Zoe and wouldn’t give him a second chance, thus leading to the reclusive half-life. Lemon had great ponytail game here.
The town didn’t hate Zoe any more, but she wasn’t staying for the Founders Day parade, oh no, until Earl crossed her path and asked her to tend to him (he had a nasty wound) because she was family. So, Zoe and Wade had to spend the night taking turns watching Earl in case his blood poisoning reached his heart, as he wouldn’t go to hospital and seemed to think they were meant to be.
In the morning, it turned out he’d be okay. Zoe tried to apologise to Wade and explain that New York was real life (easier) for her. It turned out that New York’s very own Joel had come to Bluebell, and that Wade was one of the things Zoe had neglected to tell her new beau about the town.
We learned that Lemon was sleeping with Meatball (THAT IS DARLING!) ‘We’ included Wade, who was looking as if he’d been out in the sun too long all episode. George, looking good with the new haircut, bumped into Tansy and was OUTRAGED to learn that she was now with Philmore’s lawyer, his nemesis. (I like Tansy, but George/Tansy never had the most chemistry, so I was a little surprised at this development.) Later, he tried to get drunk to forget ‘two years of pain’, but conveniently Lavon’s cousin (who’s name I haven’t bothered to register. In a sentence, she’s demanding enough to get on AB’s last nerve, and clearly fancied a not interested Wade) offered him a no-names-exchanged distraction.
Meanwhile, Lemon, annoyed that Zoe seemed to have nabbed a decent boyfriend, while she was consumed with shame, self-loathing (and lust) regarding Meatball, and her pal Wade was nursing a broken heart under his bravado, decided to claim to Zoe that she and Wade were in a relationship. Gosh, I wonder how many ways that might have unintended consequences.
But it was enjoying being on the parade with Rose (basically the dream footage reused) and Lavon talking about how Zoe had looked like she belonged and various townie greetings that made her think she might want to stay. She asked Walking New Yorker cliché Joel to stay too for her. And he did, although he also said enough to show he was less likely to settle than Zoe had. Lemon was horrified at this turn of events, while Wade, under the influence of his FEELINGS about Zoe acknowledging how well he knew her in one breath and trying to be magnanimous and serious about what she thought were their relationships with other pople decided to go all in for the ruse of being with Lemon, kissing her like it was an act of desperation.
I’m not too excited by that turn of events. I’ve really liked the Wade-Lemon friendship, as much as I like the Zoe-Lavon friendship, and didn’t want to see it messed with for romantic plotlines. I can see the parallels between Lemon’s ‘Eww, I keep sleeping with Meatball’ and Zoe’s past ‘Eww, I
keep sleeping with Wade’, except Wade has always been a more fully formed character than Meatball. Oh well, Meatball’s reaction to all this should be fun…
Some wacky choices from the writers there, along with nods to the s1 finale as well as the pilot.
