lesbian foreshadowing

Truly, the greatest of all literary devices...Here, let me put this blanket over you Marissa...oh, wait, what? You're bi-curious? Oops! I seemed to have brushed against your arm. Whatever will we do about that? Honestly, the only thing gayer than Coop last night was the directorial choice to have her first meeting with Ryan momentarily flicker on the windshield of his car. Ah, the vague projection of last season's memories....so very touching.

Meanwhile, was anyone else disappointed that Lindsay wasn't flailing around in the sea? And no, I'm not saying that because I want her character to go the way of the lawn-boy; I just think the drama there is better. Ryan saves Lindsay, and then yells at Marissa. Even better, Ryan cradles a barely-alive Lindsay in his arms and uses her limp, soaked limbs to gesticulate wildly at Marissa, while yelling. Genius!

How am I not writing for this show?

*Update!* Bonus pictoral commentary on the ridiculous Mischa/Lindsay lunch scene courtesy of k-na:

Comments

[paul]

The question is, would it have been worse writing to do what people expected (Lindsey nearly drowning) or the supposed opposite of what people expected (Lindsey not nearly drowning)? I say it's bad writing either way. It's the author's equivalent of painting yourself into a corner.

[showboat]

I love the work of Nawabi. I've missed her work in the New Yorker lately, but I've got her coffee table book, "A Falafel of Laughs: The Cartoonistry of K. Nawabi" on order from Amazon.

[Rod]

I used to work at World News Now back in the good old days of Coop and JuJu. We'll talk, lol.

Rod
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