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HoD: The truth about the pastry elf!
Hart of Dixie - 4.8 61 Candles
This episode didn’t go where I expected. For one thing, Wanda had given birth offscreen, and it really didn’t take Lemon very long to give up on her idea of finding the perfect moment to make it official with Lavon, when I thought it would take the whole episode. But then, the emotional throughline was family and Zoe and Lemon.
Family because everyone forgot Brick’s birthday, and despite his vanity, he cut a rather sad figure – dressing up as a clown for a the birthday party of a kid that shares your birthdate? Sad. (Everyone in town was picking up one of Tom’s gazillion part-time jobs to give him paternity leave. That was Brick’s.)
Wade had a little emotional moment holding a baby for a first time, with the knowledge that in a few months he’d be holding his own. Zoe was really taken by the rocking chair Wanda had inherited from her family, and set Wade a mission to find a heirloom for them to pass down to their kid, which led them back to Harley.
George’s parents turned up in Bluebell and found out about George/AB in a rather embarrassing manner, but said they were delighted. George didn’t want to tell them about his sideline in managing Bluebell’s musicians, though, even though Meatball was potentially being lined up for a record deal. But the Truitt brothers gave him away and AB had to ‘fess up. It turned out that Pa Tucker had just been sacked/forced to early retirement, and had a new perspective of corporate law and George’s life choices as a result. AB confirmed that she thought George was really passionate about being a music manager (really? He just seems to have been busy trying to curb the Truitt brothers and Meatball’s craziest instincts) and she was proud of him. Of course, with her starting a new career, she could just be projecting. Anyway, they seem happy.
But the pacing of the Lemon/Lavon resolution was…weird, and if I had been a massive shipper (instead of giving up on them early and having got invested in Lavon/Annabeth while that lasted), I would feel shortchanged. Much of the episode was about tension between Zoe and Lemon as The New Girlfriend turned up for breakfast, and the two frenemies frenemied, with a list of demands – some of which were reasonable from Lemon (although had she discussed them with Lavon? I doubt it), some of which weren’t, while Zoe was hormonal all episode and didn’t want anything to change. Wade and Lavon exchanged troubled glances.
Oh, and we learned that there is no pastry elf, Lavon just got pastries delivered daily.
Zoe eventually explained herself, saying that Lavon was practically her brother and she was feeling really, really bad about not having known Harley at this moment because of the heirloom thing. Frank (of all people) tried to get Zoe to see that things had to change and Lemon had some right to ask for alone time with her new boyfriend. When both women thought the other was caught up in an accident caused by a sleep-deprived Tom (he’d heard that many Bluebell residents were doing a terrible job in his place, which is not surprising because Lavon drew their names out of a jar instead of stopping to think, and only Zoe managed to talk her way out of an icky job because of her pregnancy), they remembered the friends part of ‘frenemies’ and the episode ended with Lemon doing a nice thing for a touched Zoe.
Before that, Shelby had realised, very late in the day, that she’d forgotten Brick’s birthday – he’d been dragged fishing by Lavon and Wade. Wade was after some things of Harley’s that turned out to have been sold for charity, and Lavon was trying to tell him about him and Lemon. Because Brick loved ‘his girls’, he made the most of it, and Meatball sang in a surprisingly acceptable way at the party.
As the kooky Wilkes aunt with the nice house turned up in this episode, I still wouldn’t be surprised if Zoe/Wade and baby end up living there. Surely Zoe giving birth will be a thing on the show.
This episode didn’t go where I expected. For one thing, Wanda had given birth offscreen, and it really didn’t take Lemon very long to give up on her idea of finding the perfect moment to make it official with Lavon, when I thought it would take the whole episode. But then, the emotional throughline was family and Zoe and Lemon.
Family because everyone forgot Brick’s birthday, and despite his vanity, he cut a rather sad figure – dressing up as a clown for a the birthday party of a kid that shares your birthdate? Sad. (Everyone in town was picking up one of Tom’s gazillion part-time jobs to give him paternity leave. That was Brick’s.)
Wade had a little emotional moment holding a baby for a first time, with the knowledge that in a few months he’d be holding his own. Zoe was really taken by the rocking chair Wanda had inherited from her family, and set Wade a mission to find a heirloom for them to pass down to their kid, which led them back to Harley.
George’s parents turned up in Bluebell and found out about George/AB in a rather embarrassing manner, but said they were delighted. George didn’t want to tell them about his sideline in managing Bluebell’s musicians, though, even though Meatball was potentially being lined up for a record deal. But the Truitt brothers gave him away and AB had to ‘fess up. It turned out that Pa Tucker had just been sacked/forced to early retirement, and had a new perspective of corporate law and George’s life choices as a result. AB confirmed that she thought George was really passionate about being a music manager (really? He just seems to have been busy trying to curb the Truitt brothers and Meatball’s craziest instincts) and she was proud of him. Of course, with her starting a new career, she could just be projecting. Anyway, they seem happy.
But the pacing of the Lemon/Lavon resolution was…weird, and if I had been a massive shipper (instead of giving up on them early and having got invested in Lavon/Annabeth while that lasted), I would feel shortchanged. Much of the episode was about tension between Zoe and Lemon as The New Girlfriend turned up for breakfast, and the two frenemies frenemied, with a list of demands – some of which were reasonable from Lemon (although had she discussed them with Lavon? I doubt it), some of which weren’t, while Zoe was hormonal all episode and didn’t want anything to change. Wade and Lavon exchanged troubled glances.
Oh, and we learned that there is no pastry elf, Lavon just got pastries delivered daily.
Zoe eventually explained herself, saying that Lavon was practically her brother and she was feeling really, really bad about not having known Harley at this moment because of the heirloom thing. Frank (of all people) tried to get Zoe to see that things had to change and Lemon had some right to ask for alone time with her new boyfriend. When both women thought the other was caught up in an accident caused by a sleep-deprived Tom (he’d heard that many Bluebell residents were doing a terrible job in his place, which is not surprising because Lavon drew their names out of a jar instead of stopping to think, and only Zoe managed to talk her way out of an icky job because of her pregnancy), they remembered the friends part of ‘frenemies’ and the episode ended with Lemon doing a nice thing for a touched Zoe.
Before that, Shelby had realised, very late in the day, that she’d forgotten Brick’s birthday – he’d been dragged fishing by Lavon and Wade. Wade was after some things of Harley’s that turned out to have been sold for charity, and Lavon was trying to tell him about him and Lemon. Because Brick loved ‘his girls’, he made the most of it, and Meatball sang in a surprisingly acceptable way at the party.
As the kooky Wilkes aunt with the nice house turned up in this episode, I still wouldn’t be surprised if Zoe/Wade and baby end up living there. Surely Zoe giving birth will be a thing on the show.