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shallownessHart of Dixie 3.2 Friends in Low Places
Three ladies waking up to their varied situations started this ep off, which worked as an intro to the crazy and preoccupations of this episode. Joel, in the heat of a Bluebell early morning, was rethinking his decision to stay there with Zoe; best of all, we got to see some more of the Lemon/Meatball dynamic, with him seeming rightly confident in his carnal appeal for her; and George was quite bad at the morning after a no-strings-attached night, having made eggs, but Lavon’s cousin would turn out to be even worse, as she really went for ‘He made eggs for me!’
‘Lemonade’ (which is what Brick has sometimes called Lemon) were facing up to the fact that the whole town thought they were a couple and were baying for them to kiss on demand. They resolved to break up soonish. Zoe was on a mission to get Joel to fall in love with Bluebell as she had (pn speed). Lavon offered to host a dinner party (and before my hackles raised, he did seem to have told AnnaBeth quite soon after, because of couse she was doing most of the work).
We learned, almost incidentally, how much Zoe has learned about the town.
Meatball turned out to have quite a decent streak, so once he learned that Lemon was supposedly dating his best friend Wade (you should hear the way he talks about you, dude. I think you come well after Lavon and even George in Wade’s reckoning), he told Lemon there’d be no more Meatball for her. At first she was horrified, and then realised that the fake relationship might help her detox from Meatball. So the fake break up was off…
..until one of the state’s most eligible bachelors, whom Cricket had wanted to set Lemon up with previously, turned up in Bluebell. And he was played by Captain Awesome! So she invited herself to the dinner party for Joel. The dinner party expanded even more, because Lavon invited his good friend George who had been talking him down from doing violence to the guy who made eggs and hurt his little cousin’s feelings. (He’d refused to budge from the terms of their no names exchanged thing.)
Zoe was continually distracted by the Lemon/Wade thing – watching Lemon flirt with The Eligible Bachelor, she did not realise that Joel, in a hunt for wi-fi, had sat on Fire Ant Rock. Cue a visit to the surgery, where Brick continued to be droll. He’d already been riled to learn that apparently his daughter was dating Wade and no one had seen fit to tell him. Now he was riled that Zoe was offering medical advice in his surgery (although clearly if she’s staying, she’s going to pick up her share of the practice again.)
Zoe was starting to get suspicious about the supposed Lemon/Wade romance, its timing and its veracity, and called Wade out. As in all their interactions, HIS FACE gave so much away to the audience, at any rate.
So, the supposed dinner party for Joel was more of a town event, and AB was being put upon. We met Cricket’s husband finally, and he was so gay and she was so clueless.
All the storylines came to a boil, with Wade turning up, determined to prove Zoe wrong. Lemon was friend enough to carry on the charade, although she confided it was a fake relationship to Mr Eligible Bachelor, and then claimed it was because Wade had a terminal illness. He bought it (!!!), but said that his family couldn’t do with any more scandals. Our Lemon pinky swore that she wasn’t associated with any scandals.
Zoe got distracted again by all the Wade-adjacent drama, and failed to warn Joel to avoid the crabfish, because it had been cooked in peanut oil, to which he was allergic. So, he had his second medical emergency of the day. (I hadn’t felt sorry for his writerly pride when it turned out Lavon had left a scathing review on his book, but this I did feel sorry for.) Zoe apologised, and the couple bonded over trying to figure out why Lemon would fake a relationship with Wade.
A drunk Meatball crashed the party and made his and Lemon’s past secret liaison public. So that explained that, and ruined her chances with Mr Eligible Bachelor. Meanwhile, Lavon’s little cousin essentially blackmailed George into spending time with her. I know he’s used to high maintenance with Lemon, but he (and AnnaBeth) deserve better than her shenanigans.
The general reaction was to drink some booze in response to all this. The actors playing Lemon and Wade have great (platonic) timing, and the scene where Zoe talked seriously to Wade, he teased her, and there was a whole lot of affection going on, warmed my heart. The episode ended with Joel - despite everything – seeming buzzed by all the crazy Bluebell drama as a writer.
Three ladies waking up to their varied situations started this ep off, which worked as an intro to the crazy and preoccupations of this episode. Joel, in the heat of a Bluebell early morning, was rethinking his decision to stay there with Zoe; best of all, we got to see some more of the Lemon/Meatball dynamic, with him seeming rightly confident in his carnal appeal for her; and George was quite bad at the morning after a no-strings-attached night, having made eggs, but Lavon’s cousin would turn out to be even worse, as she really went for ‘He made eggs for me!’
‘Lemonade’ (which is what Brick has sometimes called Lemon) were facing up to the fact that the whole town thought they were a couple and were baying for them to kiss on demand. They resolved to break up soonish. Zoe was on a mission to get Joel to fall in love with Bluebell as she had (pn speed). Lavon offered to host a dinner party (and before my hackles raised, he did seem to have told AnnaBeth quite soon after, because of couse she was doing most of the work).
We learned, almost incidentally, how much Zoe has learned about the town.
Meatball turned out to have quite a decent streak, so once he learned that Lemon was supposedly dating his best friend Wade (you should hear the way he talks about you, dude. I think you come well after Lavon and even George in Wade’s reckoning), he told Lemon there’d be no more Meatball for her. At first she was horrified, and then realised that the fake relationship might help her detox from Meatball. So the fake break up was off…
..until one of the state’s most eligible bachelors, whom Cricket had wanted to set Lemon up with previously, turned up in Bluebell. And he was played by Captain Awesome! So she invited herself to the dinner party for Joel. The dinner party expanded even more, because Lavon invited his good friend George who had been talking him down from doing violence to the guy who made eggs and hurt his little cousin’s feelings. (He’d refused to budge from the terms of their no names exchanged thing.)
Zoe was continually distracted by the Lemon/Wade thing – watching Lemon flirt with The Eligible Bachelor, she did not realise that Joel, in a hunt for wi-fi, had sat on Fire Ant Rock. Cue a visit to the surgery, where Brick continued to be droll. He’d already been riled to learn that apparently his daughter was dating Wade and no one had seen fit to tell him. Now he was riled that Zoe was offering medical advice in his surgery (although clearly if she’s staying, she’s going to pick up her share of the practice again.)
Zoe was starting to get suspicious about the supposed Lemon/Wade romance, its timing and its veracity, and called Wade out. As in all their interactions, HIS FACE gave so much away to the audience, at any rate.
So, the supposed dinner party for Joel was more of a town event, and AB was being put upon. We met Cricket’s husband finally, and he was so gay and she was so clueless.
All the storylines came to a boil, with Wade turning up, determined to prove Zoe wrong. Lemon was friend enough to carry on the charade, although she confided it was a fake relationship to Mr Eligible Bachelor, and then claimed it was because Wade had a terminal illness. He bought it (!!!), but said that his family couldn’t do with any more scandals. Our Lemon pinky swore that she wasn’t associated with any scandals.
Zoe got distracted again by all the Wade-adjacent drama, and failed to warn Joel to avoid the crabfish, because it had been cooked in peanut oil, to which he was allergic. So, he had his second medical emergency of the day. (I hadn’t felt sorry for his writerly pride when it turned out Lavon had left a scathing review on his book, but this I did feel sorry for.) Zoe apologised, and the couple bonded over trying to figure out why Lemon would fake a relationship with Wade.
A drunk Meatball crashed the party and made his and Lemon’s past secret liaison public. So that explained that, and ruined her chances with Mr Eligible Bachelor. Meanwhile, Lavon’s little cousin essentially blackmailed George into spending time with her. I know he’s used to high maintenance with Lemon, but he (and AnnaBeth) deserve better than her shenanigans.
The general reaction was to drink some booze in response to all this. The actors playing Lemon and Wade have great (platonic) timing, and the scene where Zoe talked seriously to Wade, he teased her, and there was a whole lot of affection going on, warmed my heart. The episode ended with Joel - despite everything – seeming buzzed by all the crazy Bluebell drama as a writer.
