Double Hart of Dixie
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shallownessHart of Dixie 3.7 I Run To You
It’s been a while, and most of this was silly machinations that were nowhere near entertaining enough until Lavon and AB had a fight about jam that wasn’t about jam at all and the Truitt brothers kidnapped Joel, so Zoe and Wade had to spring a rescue and Joel’s reaction to that. Lemon got far too few scenes (and was unsettlingly chill for the first two.) In fact, I didn’t understand why they didn’t bring Miss Competitive into the whole relay race plotline.
For yes, apparently Bluebell and Philmore have a mixed relay race of indeterminate length every year (that’s never been mentioned before). Lavon (with a dapper way of his own of wearing a baseball cap) and George (best look? Sleeveless blue vest) were determined not to lose this year. Both were acting unreasonably – Lavon was avoiding AB bigtime after the ultimatum that wasn’t an ultimatum from her in the previous ep, and George was too scared to tell Lavon he and Lynley were… I sided with Lynley when she asked what were they exactly. (You made me side with Lynley, George!)
Low-level nonsense involving jam-making AB, former track star Lynley, and insufficiently athletic Meatball and Cricket ensued. Lynley spilled to Lavon, who was furious with George, who nonetheless chose Lynley, to her delight, which meant he was also thrown off the team until the last minute. George also got Lavon to quit avoiding AB, and when he did talk to her, he had fair and understandable reasons for wanting to take it slow (the Ruby engagement debacle and the general Lemon debacle), but was able to offer a sign of his intentions. The couple seemed remarkably put together when they turned up at the Rammer-Jammer at the end if they’d been doing what it had been intimated they were doing before.
Meanwhile Joel was still hanging out too much with Wade for Zoe’s liking, so Zoe turned into a nag, then realised her boyfriend had writer’s block, and so transformed part of the Rammer-Jammer into a parody, er, replica of where Joel had written his first, successful novel with Wanda and Tom’s help.
Wade kept needling her, sometimes whilst shirtless. Befriending Joel, characterising Zoe as being like Joel’s mother, and winding Zoe up that she’s still in love with him is…a choice by Wade. As ever, he will always help her, although the Truitt brothers picking on Joel as their revenge was on him. Beneath it all, there was a line that showed how seriously he took running the bar (now without Lemon.) Though I thought he was remembering it wrong by saying that Zoe’s attitude towards his music was negative (she was right about the country metal nonsense), because that wasn’t why they broke up, plus owning the bar is his real dream. Still there was something there about him aligning himself with fellow creative Joel, while Dr Zoe is a fixer.
And heh, Joel chose hanging out with the Truitts over Wade, because they’re trashier/better writing fodder.
As for the final reveal, just after Lemon had manoeuvred her father towards an age-appropriate love interest, that the new owner of Fancies was Shelby and she was pregnant... Okay, a step back, I don’t think I’d fully taken in that Brick had dumped her instead of eloping (there was a lot going on when they dumped that info at the start of season 3.) But I’m most interested in how Shelby, who was broke last season, had the money to buy a restaurant. Did she keep touching a vehicle for prize money? Also, if it’s going to be a very Shelby restaurant, as well as irritating Lemon’s taste, it’s going to be competition for the Rammer-Jammer.
3.8 Miracles
I didn't watch these as a double-bill. Equally OTT and silly, if not more so, but somehow a more entertaining ep. Joel’s Grandma Sylvie had arrived to celebrate Hanukah while Bluebell was celebrating its Harvest Festival. Zoe invited her cousin after bumping into her (while she was in her PJs and slippers and her cousin was fully clothed and made up) to a Hanukah dinner, and got more than rebuffed. I didn’t side with Zoe for assuming it would be easy to get over ignoring her relatives for two years and then gatecrashing a kid’s birthday party or approve of Cousin Whatshername’s ‘you are never getting forgiven’ stance.
Lemon and Brick discussed the Shelby situation. Lemon ordered her father to go directly to work, so of course he encountered Shelby on the way and didn’t discuss the bump. She told us Fancies was going to be a cabaret now and arranged what Brick took to be a date. Lemon went to George, which also meant Lynley. George, like me, wanted to know where Shelby had got the money to by the restaurant from. Unlike me, he thought there was a sugar daddy involved. Lynley learned that George had a lot of exes in Bluebell for a man who dated Lemon throughout his teenage years and most of his adult life.
Lavon didn’t have much to do except disapprove of Lynley/George and agree to Zoe’s request/demand that this Hanukah dinner could be held at his place. In fairness, she and Joel still don’t have a kitchen, and everyone was invited. No explanation was ever given for why AB wasn’t about, but there were a lot of guest stars.
Zoe found that her uncle Brando (sweet Southern gentleman, Harley replacement, terrible impersonator and more forgiving than his…grand-daughter) was in the surgery. He was amenable to joining her and hers for lunch and fell for Grandma Sylvie. It was reciprocated to protective grandson Joel’s disgust. Zoe was all ‘senior love, how sweet!’ It all went well until they bumped into his outraged grand-daughter (he could have texted, but it’s not like he was senile. I mean, obviously the outrage was caused by Zoe.)
Shelby wasn’t the only returning ex. Tansy was in town in her new guise as a person who delivers summons, so she bullied Wade into going to the dentist, which he needed to do. Less sensibly, she offered him her anti-anxiety medication and he took three, and so he was stoned.
Which is how he came to be wandering the hay maze, just as Zoe was, and went to her, kissed her fervently and walked away.
Cut to the next morning, where she, with her usual respect of privacy, was at the foot of his bed, demanding to know what that was. She may have believed his ‘I was out of it on drugs’ because she needed to believe it meant nothing, but Tansy (sleeping on the floor. I’d say how ungentlemanly, but he was the one who’d overdosed on someone else’s medicine. Although he had managed to change) didn’t buy it. Hadn’t he said the drugs made him see the truth? Tansy started to try to set him up with other woman. He would counter it by offering her a job at the R-J because issuing summons wasn’t safe and she didn’t like it. (I forgot to say she’d been taking Dolly everywhere, so that was some protection as that’s a big dog.)
Lemon and George tried an intervention on a besotted Brick who was wrapping up a truly tacky gift for Shelby before their ‘date’. Lemon decided it was time to call her grandmother. But she turned out to be all for Brick/Shelby (in the hope she could make sure this third Breeland came up to her standards). Brick met Shelby, pretended to be shocked she was pregnant (in a gallant attempt to humour her belief it was a little bump.) Their scene ended on a cliffhanger, but it turned out she’d been artificially inseminated and Brick wasn’t the father. (This leaves things open for the show to have someone like Meatball actually be the father.) He was stunned, Grandma was so disappointed that she went and had an offscreen accident. Brick and Lemon flipped a coin as to who would take care of her.
We still don’t know how Shelby funded the restaurant purchase, and if she was broke, how did she afford AI? And obviously, getting knocked up the second after your fiancé breaks up with you in an attempt to be a better person? Hmm. Poor kid. (And I this is from someone who disagrees with Lemon and George’s caricatures of Shelby as grasping.)
When Cousin Whatshername went too far in response to Brando wanting to meet up with Sylvie, he let slip (although it was something I’d already guessed) that she was taking out her anger at her husband leaving her and this being the first weekend where her son was staying at his at Zoe’s. And he and Sylvie seemed totally compos mentis, so if they wanted to canoodle…who was she to stop them? Zoe and her cousin had a slight rapprochement and Zoe invited her to the Hanukah dinner.
Unlike me, Wade remembered the cousin’s name when he bumped into her. Again, could see what came next.
Lynley had told Lavon that even meeting many of George’s exes didn’t faze her because she felt so secure. Aside from the audience knowing that Zoe was one of the few women he hadn’t dated but had the most feelings from, we got the moment where George encountered Tansy serving at the bar, and realised she was in town. (TBH I think the actors playing George/Lynley have more chemistry and the characters seem more compatible than George/Tansy. I quite enjoyed Tansy’s interaction with Wade in this ep, but who’s the next returning ex? Jonah? Ruby? Jonah/Ruby as a power couple?)
Quite a lot of the Wilkes clan turned up for dinner (the epitome of the ‘joke’ that it was a Hanukah miracle and that Zoe and possibly Sylvie didn’t know what Hanukah was all about. Or Joel.) So Lavon got to charm Wilkes kids, Zoe got to feel like she belonged, and then saw Wade give her cousin a lift. She did not like that! Even though she’s all talk about being happy with Joel, who was maybe starting to think about making Zoe an official part of his family if I’m not reaching too much.
On the one hand, she has a kid, Wade. On the other, the cousin knows nothing about the Wade/Zoe history, is on the rebound, knew Wade longer and reconnected with a dentally healthy put-together Wade. From a shipper’s perspective, Wade going for another brunette WHO IS RELATED TO ZOE when we all know he meant that kiss and is in no way over her…plenty of potential for dramah there!
It’s been a while, and most of this was silly machinations that were nowhere near entertaining enough until Lavon and AB had a fight about jam that wasn’t about jam at all and the Truitt brothers kidnapped Joel, so Zoe and Wade had to spring a rescue and Joel’s reaction to that. Lemon got far too few scenes (and was unsettlingly chill for the first two.) In fact, I didn’t understand why they didn’t bring Miss Competitive into the whole relay race plotline.
For yes, apparently Bluebell and Philmore have a mixed relay race of indeterminate length every year (that’s never been mentioned before). Lavon (with a dapper way of his own of wearing a baseball cap) and George (best look? Sleeveless blue vest) were determined not to lose this year. Both were acting unreasonably – Lavon was avoiding AB bigtime after the ultimatum that wasn’t an ultimatum from her in the previous ep, and George was too scared to tell Lavon he and Lynley were… I sided with Lynley when she asked what were they exactly. (You made me side with Lynley, George!)
Low-level nonsense involving jam-making AB, former track star Lynley, and insufficiently athletic Meatball and Cricket ensued. Lynley spilled to Lavon, who was furious with George, who nonetheless chose Lynley, to her delight, which meant he was also thrown off the team until the last minute. George also got Lavon to quit avoiding AB, and when he did talk to her, he had fair and understandable reasons for wanting to take it slow (the Ruby engagement debacle and the general Lemon debacle), but was able to offer a sign of his intentions. The couple seemed remarkably put together when they turned up at the Rammer-Jammer at the end if they’d been doing what it had been intimated they were doing before.
Meanwhile Joel was still hanging out too much with Wade for Zoe’s liking, so Zoe turned into a nag, then realised her boyfriend had writer’s block, and so transformed part of the Rammer-Jammer into a parody, er, replica of where Joel had written his first, successful novel with Wanda and Tom’s help.
Wade kept needling her, sometimes whilst shirtless. Befriending Joel, characterising Zoe as being like Joel’s mother, and winding Zoe up that she’s still in love with him is…a choice by Wade. As ever, he will always help her, although the Truitt brothers picking on Joel as their revenge was on him. Beneath it all, there was a line that showed how seriously he took running the bar (now without Lemon.) Though I thought he was remembering it wrong by saying that Zoe’s attitude towards his music was negative (she was right about the country metal nonsense), because that wasn’t why they broke up, plus owning the bar is his real dream. Still there was something there about him aligning himself with fellow creative Joel, while Dr Zoe is a fixer.
And heh, Joel chose hanging out with the Truitts over Wade, because they’re trashier/better writing fodder.
As for the final reveal, just after Lemon had manoeuvred her father towards an age-appropriate love interest, that the new owner of Fancies was Shelby and she was pregnant... Okay, a step back, I don’t think I’d fully taken in that Brick had dumped her instead of eloping (there was a lot going on when they dumped that info at the start of season 3.) But I’m most interested in how Shelby, who was broke last season, had the money to buy a restaurant. Did she keep touching a vehicle for prize money? Also, if it’s going to be a very Shelby restaurant, as well as irritating Lemon’s taste, it’s going to be competition for the Rammer-Jammer.
3.8 Miracles
I didn't watch these as a double-bill. Equally OTT and silly, if not more so, but somehow a more entertaining ep. Joel’s Grandma Sylvie had arrived to celebrate Hanukah while Bluebell was celebrating its Harvest Festival. Zoe invited her cousin after bumping into her (while she was in her PJs and slippers and her cousin was fully clothed and made up) to a Hanukah dinner, and got more than rebuffed. I didn’t side with Zoe for assuming it would be easy to get over ignoring her relatives for two years and then gatecrashing a kid’s birthday party or approve of Cousin Whatshername’s ‘you are never getting forgiven’ stance.
Lemon and Brick discussed the Shelby situation. Lemon ordered her father to go directly to work, so of course he encountered Shelby on the way and didn’t discuss the bump. She told us Fancies was going to be a cabaret now and arranged what Brick took to be a date. Lemon went to George, which also meant Lynley. George, like me, wanted to know where Shelby had got the money to by the restaurant from. Unlike me, he thought there was a sugar daddy involved. Lynley learned that George had a lot of exes in Bluebell for a man who dated Lemon throughout his teenage years and most of his adult life.
Lavon didn’t have much to do except disapprove of Lynley/George and agree to Zoe’s request/demand that this Hanukah dinner could be held at his place. In fairness, she and Joel still don’t have a kitchen, and everyone was invited. No explanation was ever given for why AB wasn’t about, but there were a lot of guest stars.
Zoe found that her uncle Brando (sweet Southern gentleman, Harley replacement, terrible impersonator and more forgiving than his…grand-daughter) was in the surgery. He was amenable to joining her and hers for lunch and fell for Grandma Sylvie. It was reciprocated to protective grandson Joel’s disgust. Zoe was all ‘senior love, how sweet!’ It all went well until they bumped into his outraged grand-daughter (he could have texted, but it’s not like he was senile. I mean, obviously the outrage was caused by Zoe.)
Shelby wasn’t the only returning ex. Tansy was in town in her new guise as a person who delivers summons, so she bullied Wade into going to the dentist, which he needed to do. Less sensibly, she offered him her anti-anxiety medication and he took three, and so he was stoned.
Which is how he came to be wandering the hay maze, just as Zoe was, and went to her, kissed her fervently and walked away.
Cut to the next morning, where she, with her usual respect of privacy, was at the foot of his bed, demanding to know what that was. She may have believed his ‘I was out of it on drugs’ because she needed to believe it meant nothing, but Tansy (sleeping on the floor. I’d say how ungentlemanly, but he was the one who’d overdosed on someone else’s medicine. Although he had managed to change) didn’t buy it. Hadn’t he said the drugs made him see the truth? Tansy started to try to set him up with other woman. He would counter it by offering her a job at the R-J because issuing summons wasn’t safe and she didn’t like it. (I forgot to say she’d been taking Dolly everywhere, so that was some protection as that’s a big dog.)
Lemon and George tried an intervention on a besotted Brick who was wrapping up a truly tacky gift for Shelby before their ‘date’. Lemon decided it was time to call her grandmother. But she turned out to be all for Brick/Shelby (in the hope she could make sure this third Breeland came up to her standards). Brick met Shelby, pretended to be shocked she was pregnant (in a gallant attempt to humour her belief it was a little bump.) Their scene ended on a cliffhanger, but it turned out she’d been artificially inseminated and Brick wasn’t the father. (This leaves things open for the show to have someone like Meatball actually be the father.) He was stunned, Grandma was so disappointed that she went and had an offscreen accident. Brick and Lemon flipped a coin as to who would take care of her.
We still don’t know how Shelby funded the restaurant purchase, and if she was broke, how did she afford AI? And obviously, getting knocked up the second after your fiancé breaks up with you in an attempt to be a better person? Hmm. Poor kid. (And I this is from someone who disagrees with Lemon and George’s caricatures of Shelby as grasping.)
When Cousin Whatshername went too far in response to Brando wanting to meet up with Sylvie, he let slip (although it was something I’d already guessed) that she was taking out her anger at her husband leaving her and this being the first weekend where her son was staying at his at Zoe’s. And he and Sylvie seemed totally compos mentis, so if they wanted to canoodle…who was she to stop them? Zoe and her cousin had a slight rapprochement and Zoe invited her to the Hanukah dinner.
Unlike me, Wade remembered the cousin’s name when he bumped into her. Again, could see what came next.
Lynley had told Lavon that even meeting many of George’s exes didn’t faze her because she felt so secure. Aside from the audience knowing that Zoe was one of the few women he hadn’t dated but had the most feelings from, we got the moment where George encountered Tansy serving at the bar, and realised she was in town. (TBH I think the actors playing George/Lynley have more chemistry and the characters seem more compatible than George/Tansy. I quite enjoyed Tansy’s interaction with Wade in this ep, but who’s the next returning ex? Jonah? Ruby? Jonah/Ruby as a power couple?)
Quite a lot of the Wilkes clan turned up for dinner (the epitome of the ‘joke’ that it was a Hanukah miracle and that Zoe and possibly Sylvie didn’t know what Hanukah was all about. Or Joel.) So Lavon got to charm Wilkes kids, Zoe got to feel like she belonged, and then saw Wade give her cousin a lift. She did not like that! Even though she’s all talk about being happy with Joel, who was maybe starting to think about making Zoe an official part of his family if I’m not reaching too much.
On the one hand, she has a kid, Wade. On the other, the cousin knows nothing about the Wade/Zoe history, is on the rebound, knew Wade longer and reconnected with a dentally healthy put-together Wade. From a shipper’s perspective, Wade going for another brunette WHO IS RELATED TO ZOE when we all know he meant that kiss and is in no way over her…plenty of potential for dramah there!
