HoD: In which I typed 'gazebo' a lot.
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shallownessHart of Dixie - 3.5 How Do You Like Me Now?
Zoe got hung up on a stupid poll on Dash’s blog where only 13 per cent of voters thought she and Joel would make it. On the one hand, of course she does. On the other, if I lived in Bluebell then, I’d have voted ‘nay’. Realising Joel may have taken to Bluebell, but Bluebell has not taken to him, she went on a mission to rectify that, and I thought Joel might as well see how crazy she gets. As a result, the reverend got whiplash, Zoe volunteered herself and Joel for a zip-wiring one-day Christian camp with eleven-year-old girls to make up for it, Joel baulked, and the Rev guilted George into going with Zoe, having made plans with his missus (possibly recast).
That’s George who might have found that hanging with Whatshername was not so bad. He kept mentioning the zipper incident at every opportunity, and given the way he was still resenting Zoe, I thought we got a good old look at his unforgiving side. So, he had to ditch a potential date with Is It Lynley?
Which meant spending time with Zoe, who learned that all the eleven-year-old girls fancied George and, unlike most viewers by this point, surely, shipped Zoe/George. I merely observed that once their hormones kicked in, they’d get Zoe/Wade better.
This enabled Dash to regale Joel and Lynley with the ballad of Zoe and George, title ‘Almost, But Not Quite’, so Lynley got to appreciate some of George’s damage. A somehow drunk Joel (his tumbler was full!) asked Wade to take him to this camp, where he insisted on going zip-wiring to prove his love/he was better than George, despite being afraid of heights. Wade did so for the lolz – part of him really is an 11-year-old girl - and to remind Zoe that she was meant to be with him, even though he was being annoying.
Zoe finally got grudge-nursing George to concede that not everything bad that had happened to him since the show started was her fault and that he might drop some of his hostility towards her. It was her most rational moment in this ep. Rachel Bilson had to do a lot of ‘smelling the fart’ i.e. holding some expressions for several beats too long at the end of a scene. I suppose they were running short.
What haunted me all episode was where was AnnaBeth, who should have been involved in the whole gazebo subplot. They didn’t even bother with a line to say that Brick (who didn’t appear this episode) was keeping her busy. So, it’s fairly obvious the actress is on the same contract as Tim Matheson.
Cricket and her Belles wouldn’t let Lemon help to decorate the town gazebo, until Lavon begged, because he wanted it to get on some calendar of the gazebos of Alabama (ohhhkay). Goaded by the bitchiest Belles about the masquerade, Lemon blabbed that she had left with a wonderful, wonderful man. They assumed she had made him up because she had form. An eavesdropping Meatball assumed the same and hoped that she’d take him back. Instead she asked Lavon to help her prove Peter was real (he asked Frank, ‘the town PI’) and then she’d help with the gazebo.
It turned out that a man named Peter had stayed at the place where Lemon slept with him. Meatball nearly ruined the gazebo in an attempt to declare his love. Lemon turned him down, and as she cited that Meatball was a Whovian, and she was not, I realised I had to let Lemon/Meatball go. As did Meatball, although he bargained for a kiss that ended up being the picture of the gazebo…
Yeah, all that happened.
Zoe got hung up on a stupid poll on Dash’s blog where only 13 per cent of voters thought she and Joel would make it. On the one hand, of course she does. On the other, if I lived in Bluebell then, I’d have voted ‘nay’. Realising Joel may have taken to Bluebell, but Bluebell has not taken to him, she went on a mission to rectify that, and I thought Joel might as well see how crazy she gets. As a result, the reverend got whiplash, Zoe volunteered herself and Joel for a zip-wiring one-day Christian camp with eleven-year-old girls to make up for it, Joel baulked, and the Rev guilted George into going with Zoe, having made plans with his missus (possibly recast).
That’s George who might have found that hanging with Whatshername was not so bad. He kept mentioning the zipper incident at every opportunity, and given the way he was still resenting Zoe, I thought we got a good old look at his unforgiving side. So, he had to ditch a potential date with Is It Lynley?
Which meant spending time with Zoe, who learned that all the eleven-year-old girls fancied George and, unlike most viewers by this point, surely, shipped Zoe/George. I merely observed that once their hormones kicked in, they’d get Zoe/Wade better.
This enabled Dash to regale Joel and Lynley with the ballad of Zoe and George, title ‘Almost, But Not Quite’, so Lynley got to appreciate some of George’s damage. A somehow drunk Joel (his tumbler was full!) asked Wade to take him to this camp, where he insisted on going zip-wiring to prove his love/he was better than George, despite being afraid of heights. Wade did so for the lolz – part of him really is an 11-year-old girl - and to remind Zoe that she was meant to be with him, even though he was being annoying.
Zoe finally got grudge-nursing George to concede that not everything bad that had happened to him since the show started was her fault and that he might drop some of his hostility towards her. It was her most rational moment in this ep. Rachel Bilson had to do a lot of ‘smelling the fart’ i.e. holding some expressions for several beats too long at the end of a scene. I suppose they were running short.
What haunted me all episode was where was AnnaBeth, who should have been involved in the whole gazebo subplot. They didn’t even bother with a line to say that Brick (who didn’t appear this episode) was keeping her busy. So, it’s fairly obvious the actress is on the same contract as Tim Matheson.
Cricket and her Belles wouldn’t let Lemon help to decorate the town gazebo, until Lavon begged, because he wanted it to get on some calendar of the gazebos of Alabama (ohhhkay). Goaded by the bitchiest Belles about the masquerade, Lemon blabbed that she had left with a wonderful, wonderful man. They assumed she had made him up because she had form. An eavesdropping Meatball assumed the same and hoped that she’d take him back. Instead she asked Lavon to help her prove Peter was real (he asked Frank, ‘the town PI’) and then she’d help with the gazebo.
It turned out that a man named Peter had stayed at the place where Lemon slept with him. Meatball nearly ruined the gazebo in an attempt to declare his love. Lemon turned him down, and as she cited that Meatball was a Whovian, and she was not, I realised I had to let Lemon/Meatball go. As did Meatball, although he bargained for a kiss that ended up being the picture of the gazebo…
Yeah, all that happened.
