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shallownessHart of Dixie - 4.9 End of Days
The opening scene rather gave away that this episode would be at the highest levels of daftness, even by this show’s standards, as Annabeth had a ridiculous dream. At first, I thought we were going to have an A Christmas Carol riff, but it was Lavon as the town’s founder, intoning five signs (or omens) that would come to the pass the next day, before life would never be the same again. (I paraphrase.) Now, I was praising AB’s sense during all this, as she tried to pinch herself awake, but the next morning, she was telling Cricket because she thought it was a funny story. Cricket! Gullible Cricket who thought it was a portent of the end of days, especially when one of the omens came true, and was soon telling the whole town. Brick accidentally told the Truitt brothers, who were already tackling their bucket list that day, but now weren’t going to let injuries stop them.
Meanwhile, AB had had to go to brunch for the three main couples, which Lemon blabbed would be the first of many as they all spent anniversaries together and planned which of their kids would marry which. Everyone else was a bit, ‘Steady on, Lemon’ remembering how many exes were around the table and how new some of these couplings were.
Harley and Joel’s grandmother were in town, admiring Zoe and Wade’s nursery, and extolling the virtues of marriage, which is when Wade learned that Zoe had no plans to marry EVER. Which is not a stretch given what happened with her parents. But he went into a tailspin, especially as Lavon seemed fully aware that one of Zoe’s rants was the anti-marriage one and she had had no plans to wed. (Neither had Wade until he realised Zoe was for keeps for him.)
Lavon was resolute in his belief that the people of Bluebell were generally too sensible to go along with this end of days nonsense like the Truitt brothers had. Brick and I pulled a face at him. Cricket had talked AB and Lemon into finding an old classmate, Smelly Margery, whom they’d bullied in their cheerleading days, because it was a nice thing to do even if the other two didn’t believe it was their last day on earth/TV. But Margery (a cooky kooky dresser, even by this show’s standards) blanked them out and claimed not to remember, while Cricket was tactless. Also, this was at Margery’s workplace. Cricket would not be gainsaid, [check meaning] and the trio went to poor Margery’s house and spoiled her evening too, although she did snatch their peace offering gifts while not accepting their apologies. The three galpals had a nice moment where one of them sang each other’s praises: wasn’t Cricket brave? Isn’t AB awesome? And maybe Lemon is less scary these days.
Meatball had a showcase that night, and George was on his way to it when he broke down and Zoe drove up, to laughingly repeat their dialogue from when they’d first met and note how things had changed. Not least, Zoe was a bossy pregnant lady now, and as she was avoiding Wade after the anti-marriage bombshell, she offered to drive George to the showcase, even after learning it was in New Orleans, while commenting on That Thime They Went to New Orleans in season 1.
More omens seemed to come to pass and the town collectively decided that if this was their last day, they would all go through their bucket list. As Tom and Wanda’s included doing it in the gazebo, Lavon said that the town should come together to the Rammer-Jammer, food and drinks on him. Which they did, until Dash was about to perform his solo take on the Three Tenors, when they went back outside to do all sorts. (Fair enough.)
In N.O., the bar owner wanted to cancel Meatball’s set until George argued for him. This impressed Pamela, Meatball’s country star cousin who just happened to be there supporting him, and offered George a job as her manager on the spot. Zoe was initially opposed to his taking it and leaving Bluebell (and his very new relationship with AB) then guilt-stricken if that was his dream. I couldn’t get over the fact that Pamela seems like a right old diva, and would she sack George on a dime like she’d sacked her current manager. Anyway, George said no.
But in the car on their way back, Zoe questioned this, and then George pushed back on her anti-marriage stance, pointing out that Wade wanting to get married to her was the last step in his metamorphosis. He did so in such a persuasive, silver-tongued way that Zoe decided they needed to get home fast and for her to propose to Wade that night. She got George to light candles making out the words ‘Marry ME’ in the plantation. He wouldn’t do Wade’s name, and was just about to leave when Wade called Zoe to say that Brick, having succumbed to ‘mad dogging’ with the Truitts, had broken his ankle, so she had to leave to deal with the medical emergency.
After dropping Cricket off, AB let slip to Lemon that it had been Lavon being the town founder in her dream. Lemon claimed that that was a sign she’d finally got over Lavon because she had fallen in love with George. AB let that revelation sink in, then they joined the Bluebell fray, where Meatball told AB the story about his cousin offering George a job and him turning her down. Cue a thoughtful face from AB. Lemon called Lavon who told her to meet her at his house, which would be slightly less crazy, only of course they came across the proposal by candles, and although they’d had a brief discussion about how maybe they’d like to get married some day earlier after witnessing the Wade-Zoe drama, she thought he’d done it for her and said ‘Yes, I do.’ As Lavon would later tell Zoe, she was so happy, and he does want to marry her (after only a month of being officially together) that he went along with it.
Zoe was so determined that she was going to propose in a certain way that she passed over Wade declaring himself again, a little less persuasively than George had for him, but still, movingly and honestly, so she can just suck it. Also, changing your mind about something as big as marriage in an episode is daft/ we’re-running-out-of-time on this show stuff.
George found AB, who told him that he should follow his dream he’s only recently had, that flights to Nashville were a thing, and she was living a slightly less planned life these days and it was working for her. (Not shown, George calling Pamela back and saying that yes, he would take the job if it was still open.) He announced this decision to the town, and Tom declared that Bluebell would indeed never be the same again. So the dream did come through, kinda!
The final scene was the whole town, in a very ‘the morning after the night before’ state, coming to wave George off, so it really is goodbye, unless if he returns in the finale. (And I sort of think George could have left in season 2, because the character has tread water so long, but I do hope he won’t turn out to be AB’s Joel, but then, he was even more deeply rooted in the town than she is.) The Truitt brothers were following him. No sign of what Meatball was doing that I could see.
The opening scene rather gave away that this episode would be at the highest levels of daftness, even by this show’s standards, as Annabeth had a ridiculous dream. At first, I thought we were going to have an A Christmas Carol riff, but it was Lavon as the town’s founder, intoning five signs (or omens) that would come to the pass the next day, before life would never be the same again. (I paraphrase.) Now, I was praising AB’s sense during all this, as she tried to pinch herself awake, but the next morning, she was telling Cricket because she thought it was a funny story. Cricket! Gullible Cricket who thought it was a portent of the end of days, especially when one of the omens came true, and was soon telling the whole town. Brick accidentally told the Truitt brothers, who were already tackling their bucket list that day, but now weren’t going to let injuries stop them.
Meanwhile, AB had had to go to brunch for the three main couples, which Lemon blabbed would be the first of many as they all spent anniversaries together and planned which of their kids would marry which. Everyone else was a bit, ‘Steady on, Lemon’ remembering how many exes were around the table and how new some of these couplings were.
Harley and Joel’s grandmother were in town, admiring Zoe and Wade’s nursery, and extolling the virtues of marriage, which is when Wade learned that Zoe had no plans to marry EVER. Which is not a stretch given what happened with her parents. But he went into a tailspin, especially as Lavon seemed fully aware that one of Zoe’s rants was the anti-marriage one and she had had no plans to wed. (Neither had Wade until he realised Zoe was for keeps for him.)
Lavon was resolute in his belief that the people of Bluebell were generally too sensible to go along with this end of days nonsense like the Truitt brothers had. Brick and I pulled a face at him. Cricket had talked AB and Lemon into finding an old classmate, Smelly Margery, whom they’d bullied in their cheerleading days, because it was a nice thing to do even if the other two didn’t believe it was their last day on earth/TV. But Margery (a cooky kooky dresser, even by this show’s standards) blanked them out and claimed not to remember, while Cricket was tactless. Also, this was at Margery’s workplace. Cricket would not be gainsaid, [check meaning] and the trio went to poor Margery’s house and spoiled her evening too, although she did snatch their peace offering gifts while not accepting their apologies. The three galpals had a nice moment where one of them sang each other’s praises: wasn’t Cricket brave? Isn’t AB awesome? And maybe Lemon is less scary these days.
Meatball had a showcase that night, and George was on his way to it when he broke down and Zoe drove up, to laughingly repeat their dialogue from when they’d first met and note how things had changed. Not least, Zoe was a bossy pregnant lady now, and as she was avoiding Wade after the anti-marriage bombshell, she offered to drive George to the showcase, even after learning it was in New Orleans, while commenting on That Thime They Went to New Orleans in season 1.
More omens seemed to come to pass and the town collectively decided that if this was their last day, they would all go through their bucket list. As Tom and Wanda’s included doing it in the gazebo, Lavon said that the town should come together to the Rammer-Jammer, food and drinks on him. Which they did, until Dash was about to perform his solo take on the Three Tenors, when they went back outside to do all sorts. (Fair enough.)
In N.O., the bar owner wanted to cancel Meatball’s set until George argued for him. This impressed Pamela, Meatball’s country star cousin who just happened to be there supporting him, and offered George a job as her manager on the spot. Zoe was initially opposed to his taking it and leaving Bluebell (and his very new relationship with AB) then guilt-stricken if that was his dream. I couldn’t get over the fact that Pamela seems like a right old diva, and would she sack George on a dime like she’d sacked her current manager. Anyway, George said no.
But in the car on their way back, Zoe questioned this, and then George pushed back on her anti-marriage stance, pointing out that Wade wanting to get married to her was the last step in his metamorphosis. He did so in such a persuasive, silver-tongued way that Zoe decided they needed to get home fast and for her to propose to Wade that night. She got George to light candles making out the words ‘Marry ME’ in the plantation. He wouldn’t do Wade’s name, and was just about to leave when Wade called Zoe to say that Brick, having succumbed to ‘mad dogging’ with the Truitts, had broken his ankle, so she had to leave to deal with the medical emergency.
After dropping Cricket off, AB let slip to Lemon that it had been Lavon being the town founder in her dream. Lemon claimed that that was a sign she’d finally got over Lavon because she had fallen in love with George. AB let that revelation sink in, then they joined the Bluebell fray, where Meatball told AB the story about his cousin offering George a job and him turning her down. Cue a thoughtful face from AB. Lemon called Lavon who told her to meet her at his house, which would be slightly less crazy, only of course they came across the proposal by candles, and although they’d had a brief discussion about how maybe they’d like to get married some day earlier after witnessing the Wade-Zoe drama, she thought he’d done it for her and said ‘Yes, I do.’ As Lavon would later tell Zoe, she was so happy, and he does want to marry her (after only a month of being officially together) that he went along with it.
Zoe was so determined that she was going to propose in a certain way that she passed over Wade declaring himself again, a little less persuasively than George had for him, but still, movingly and honestly, so she can just suck it. Also, changing your mind about something as big as marriage in an episode is daft/ we’re-running-out-of-time on this show stuff.
George found AB, who told him that he should follow his dream he’s only recently had, that flights to Nashville were a thing, and she was living a slightly less planned life these days and it was working for her. (Not shown, George calling Pamela back and saying that yes, he would take the job if it was still open.) He announced this decision to the town, and Tom declared that Bluebell would indeed never be the same again. So the dream did come through, kinda!
The final scene was the whole town, in a very ‘the morning after the night before’ state, coming to wave George off, so it really is goodbye, unless if he returns in the finale. (And I sort of think George could have left in season 2, because the character has tread water so long, but I do hope he won’t turn out to be AB’s Joel, but then, he was even more deeply rooted in the town than she is.) The Truitt brothers were following him. No sign of what Meatball was doing that I could see.
