So, kind of a lot happened this week.
Michelle, who has now been in Paradise about a month, receives
all her crap from Las Vegas, and a bunch of crap that isn’t hers. This sets the narrative of this episode in
motion, of Michelle putting her life back together.
The Joffrey summer program auditions are upon us, and Fanny
is going only slightly less crazy as she did when she was planning the memorial
service for Hubble. There are men around
fixing up the dance studio, and then…it happens. A fax comes, and Joffrey has said, without
really saying, that due to the condition of the dance floor, the auditions will
have to be held in Ojai.
Fanny is distressed, and Michelle does. Not. Get. It. And we hear about it several times throughout
the episode, how she just doesn’t get it, and there is a payoff.
So, Michelle and Fanny go around to several contractors,
trying to seduce them into fixing the floor for free, or at least reduced cost,
seeing as the actual cost is way out of their price range. They manage to find a guy in Oxnard, brought
in by Fanny, not Michelle, as Michelle assumed would be the case.
After a night of dreaming of failed auditions, Michelle
wanders around her place, the guest house, in his skivvies, and manages to get
spotted by a gaggle of dancers, so awkward.
She decides she needs a curtain, obviously, and goes about assembling
one of the tension rod variety. She
manages to fail miserably…I’m kind of amazed she has managed to make it this
far in life, honestly, even the way she carries herself tends to scream disaster
at every turn. But then, Truly shows up,
and show an amazing proclivity to doing anything that doesn’t involve being
Truly, so she has the perfect curtains made to hang on the perfect rods she
brought, along with the perfect shade of blue paint to fix the glaring mistakes
Michelle made in the wall with the tension rod.
The girls this week were half missing. It was the Boo and Sasha show, and the blond
one and the boring one were nowhere to be found.
Boo started the arc with a shopping trip to the farmers
market with her mother. They by lots of
veggies, and Boo’s mom continually tries to get her to buy non-healthy stuff,
and Boo adamantly refuses, though she does remind her MOM that she can buy
whatever she wants. They reminisce about
all the food exploits they have had, and it’s clear they love each other, but
the food obsession is a bit strange.
So, Boo’s toe shoes break, though as I understand, that is
not an unusual thing, however, not a good one right before an audition, I would
assume. Anyway, Sasha seems to feel bad
for the way she acted in the last episode, and steals money out of her mother’s
purse to get Boo new toe shoes, though she plays it off as her dad buying the wrong
size. So Boo and Sasha are friends
again, and even make plans after the auditions.
Speaking of…
Michelle still doesn’t get WHY the auditions needed to be in
Paradise. They are a ton of work, and
very stressful, but Fanny insists. They
start, and Boo is in the first group.
She is almost immediately cut, but Fanny sends her back in with a wig
and a new name. Fanny and Michelle have
a nice conversation about being seen, with Boo coming back out a couple of more
times for new looks, an understanding starts to fall across Michelle’s face.
And even though Boo’s mother got her that horrible cake
before the auditions had even occurred(see the episode title), Fanny’s tutelage
helped her through it, and helped her be seen.
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