First, it was scary as hell.
Second, it was deeply confusing like,House of Cards-level confusing.
After last weeks break-in, a security expert named Quinn installs a new system at Kyles house.
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Megan is a little nervous about it; she doesnt want cameras in the house.
The last thing she needs is a sex tape.
And shes already been burnt by a public slut-shaming scandal with the whole nude-photo-leak thing.
Kyle agrees not to do interior cameras, but Quinn thinks its the wrong decision.
How many stalkers has he had?
Kyle thinks: …Three?
Quinn says he needs to step up security and hands him a gun.
(Whats that old Chekhov rule?
If you show a gun on stage, its gotta be used by the end of the play?
Not to brag, but I did theater in college.
Before switching majors to TV recapping, of course!)
Terence is preoccupied with revamping the Institutes public image.
Hes confident that Kyle will come crawling back, but for now, enough with the celebrity angle.
He wants to be taken seriously.
Hi diddle dee dee, says Megan.
This moment made me feel very, very weird.
Megan also feels weird (have you noticed how good my segues are getting?!)
Charlotte thinks this is a bunch of bullcrap: You think hed try this s with Jeff Daniels?!
Hed get his ass handed to him!
(This really shook me: Is Jeff Daniels a mean guy?
He seems like a nice guy!
This is a show about fictional celebrities, so its unsettling when they suddenly mention real ones.
Im fine, guys; I just got disoriented.
Lets keep going.)
Thats when Charlotte steps in and says, Okay guys, slow down!
Everybody take a breath!
(But everyone was already speaking slowly and breathing, from what I could tell.
Whats happening?!)
She presents this solution as a real ladies-supporting-ladies act of solidarity.
They shoot the scene, and Charlotte was right.
Megan nails it, even crying a single tear on camera.
Megan loved Shirley Tate, referring to her as the original take-no-s gangster.
When Deann breaks this news to Kyle, she warns him totake a breath.
But this snafu isalsothe studio guy Adams fault, because he lost the rights to Jeremy Renner.
(Now were referencing a real-life celebrity; I have whiplash.)
(What in Jeff Daniels name is happening here?!)
Kyle asks Megan to move in with him, and she freaks out.
You signed an actual marriage contract with this guy, but youre not sure youre ready to cohabitate?)
But Kyle loves her, hes ready for this, and hes worried about this stalker thing.
Im not proud of this.)
The fun comes to a screeching halt when the secrets start to come out.
But even worse, Hope finally confesses to leaking Megans nude photos to the press.
She begs for forgiveness, but Megan tearfully tells Hope that their friendship is over.
Alone at home, apparently brooding about the whereabouts of those three-ish stalkers, Kyle is feeling pretty jumpy.
First he gets startled by Kyle Toy.
And then later, he has an elaborate nightmare about Terence burning his own hand on a waffle iron.
Andthen in a genuinely scary scene Kyle wakes up to the sound of his new alarm system going off.
He grabs his gun (here we go!
Kyle takes Megan to bed, hiding his gun in the nook of his rock-formation wall.
(Sorry Chekhov, guess were gonna have to wait til the finale, girl!)
Whats in a name, anyway?)
Its calledTechnicolor Highway, and Deann describes it as a smart, completely fresh take on Southern California Gothic.
Dont get me wrong; Id love to see it.
But is that a genre?)
But before Megan manages to read that script, she gets evenmorenew pages in her script at work.
She skims them, and sees a familiar phrase: the original take-no-s gangster.
She bangs on Charlottes trailer door demanding an explanation.
And heres where it gets a little murky for me this week…
So, apparently, Charlotte is indeed the one behind these last-minute rewrites.
Whatever it is, Megan is pissed, Charlotte is pissed, and I am… stumped.
This wont come as a surprise if youve been reading these recaps, but Im no intellectual.
So Im probably alone here but I couldnt follow this one for the life of me.
That did not, however, diminish my absolute enjoyment of this episode.
Let me repeat that: THERES A MAN IN THE BUSHES.
And its the second time this show has made me scream out loud.
Heres hoping its not the last!
