Kate and Toby are six days into parenthood and baby Jack is still toughing it out in the NICU. I mean, “better” is relative, but honestly, they both seem “happy” by episode’s end. Randall’s siblings are faring much better, praise be.
So we have that screaming match to look forward to next week. They slam the bedroom door shut and prepare to have it out.
Unfortunately, Randall is not having her not having it. Her husband was a true dick and she is not having it. She acts the part of the wonderful, supportive wife during the dinner, but as they leave, she tells Randall to sleep at his office. Oh, but not before she hears Randall’s awful voicemail (and yet she couldn’t respond to his other calls or texts before that?). She was stuck in standstill traffic and her phone died. Was the theme of the recital passive-aggression? Randall begs Beth to come to an important dinner even though it means she’ll have to give up a work meeting she wants to attend, and when Beth doesn’t show, Randall calls her and leaves a truly heinous voicemail completely demeaning her job and telling her to “grow the hell up.” It is truly Randall at his worst.Īnd then, you guys, Beth shows up at that dinner. Randall rushes around and works like hell to get to Beth’s first recital, but he is a few minutes late and she reminds him of that. I mean, they could move to Philadelphia - they do have dance schools there and in the long run it would benefit their daughters to have their parents around more - but what do I know?Īs they attempt to do it all, Beth and Randall never see each other, and whatever one tries to do for the other is never good enough. But to make sure no one has to give up anything, it seems to be the only way. We get a little montage of them attempting to keep up with their crazy schedules and, reader, it is truly exhausting. Randall and Beth are not in a great place (again). I mean, even the child who seemed poised to have a happy ending is slowly losing sight of that endgame. It doesn’t much matter in the present, because we’re still wading through the sadness.
#HANDSOME JACK FACE SWAP SERIES#
They will be nothing, Jack! Nothing! I mean, I’m sure this series has to end on some type of hopeful note … or at least a bittersweet one, right? After all the trauma, it has to. Oh, and then he starts talking about what his kids’ “happily-ever-afters” will be and I wanted to flip a table. You have no idea! Their lives will be anything but effortless. He praises Rebecca for providing it and believes “things are going to be effortless” for them. But I digress: Jack is so happy to be at this school dance and see that, unlike him, his kids are getting a normal childhood. Otherwise, I fear we’re running out of Jack story, and it would be a shame to lose him. I suspect that now that we’ve solved the mystery of both Jack’s death and his time in Vietnam, his story is going to pivot to what happened with his parents. Rebecca’s shocked to hear that he never went to a school dance (hence their slow dance later), but you know, Jack had bigger problems. The whole point of this trip to an awkward preteen event is, first, to allow Jack to remind us of his troubled childhood. We think it’s cute, but imagine the children!
Objectively speaking, Jack and Rebecca are hot, cool parents, but don’t you think they’d be extremely embarrassing to a bunch of 12-year-olds? They’re making out in the library and slow-dancing in the middle of the gym. “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away” is ( very) loosely tied together by a flashback to 1992, when the Big Three attend their first school dance and Jack and Rebecca tag along as chaperones. The Pearsons will never truly escape that. But all of that angst and anger and fear and sadness that was felt while stuck in there last week? Yeah, that’s all still there. It’s true, we have made our way out of that godforsaken hospital waiting room.
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