TWoP FriNiLights - I Think We Should Have Sex -p3: In the drugstore, Landry and Matt stand before the condoms. Which are all labeled 'Inconceivable.' Ha! Is this why Texas is full of barefoot and pregnant types? Because they done got different style condoms down thar? A kind that one can't mentally pronounce with out saying it in a Wallace Shawn voice./hehee
Shot of Tami Taylor around the corner trying on some sunglasses. Yoips! She catches a glimpse of the boys, and we hear Matt begging Landry to just let him pick a pack before he dies of embarrassment. They do and walk off, Tami walks over to where they were and confirms that they were indeed in front of the enormous condom display.
At home, Tami sits with her hand marking a place in a book, but she's staring off into space, gazing at the pictures of little girl Julie that line the mantel. Julie comes home and starts heading down the hallway to her room. Tami jumps up and launches right into it. The camera is in front of Julie so we see the girl's face, her mother calling after her from behind: "I saw Matt Saracen buying condoms today." Julie stops short, her face stunned. She tries to play dumb, but Tami tells her that he was either buying them for her or for somebody else. "Think you'd better come talk to me." Julie turns toward her mother and just says "Okay" and shrugs.
Tami asks if they are having sex. Julie says no, then pauses and looks down while she says, "We're thinking about it." Tami nods and nods and repeats "You're thinking about it." Her face doesn't give much away right now, but as she starts asking her daughter Sex Ed 101 questions -- "Are you thinking about pregnancy? Are you thinking about sexually transmitted diseases?" Julie is all "Um, hello? Like that is why he was buying condoms?" Tami scrambles a bit as she snarks at her daughter for thinking that buying condoms makes you ready 'to make love.' Julie can't suppress an embarrassed grin at the usage and she repeats with horror, 'Making love?' aaaaand start Emmy clip now ['WORD.' -- Joe R] :
Connie Britton raises her voice in absolute parental abandon, it sounds loud and warbly and absolutely terrified, 'Don't you smirk at me, I am VERY. UPSET. I start crying here. You are NOT allowed to have sex! You are FIFTEEN years old!' Julie looks down again and wonders what the big deal is. 'It's just one body part going into another.' Tami, calmed a bit after her outburst, tells her that it isn't just one body part going into another, and Julie saying that it is 'makes me real clear that you are not ready for this. And I need you to be able to hear that. I need you to be able to hear me say that to you.' Julie tells her mother that she's listening, which, frankly, for a fifteen-year-old to say that to her mother at ALL, let alone in the context of a sex talk, pretty much means that Tami apparently possesses the golden key of wisdom. Tami continues, giving an honest account of what is really at stake for a smart girl who most likely already has the whole 'protection' angle covered: "You can be hurt, and you can be degraded. You can become hard, and cynical, and I don't want that to happen to you." Her voice cracks as she lists these possibilities. Tami tells her daughter that sex is special and is for people who are in love, "and you can wait." Long pause. Tami tells Julie that she wants her to be able to talk to her about it and Julie says, "Okay, we're talking, right?" Long pause. Tami brings her hands to her face, smiles ruefully, and then approaches her daughter and hugs her. The camera pans in on Julie's fingers slightly yeah caressing her mother's side as she hugs her back. That detail is gorgeous. On one hand, it's childlike, the little baby caressing a comfortable figure; on the other, it's totally adult-like, the grown child comforting a hurting parent.

I may even have already posted that part of recap. no looks like I just posted fr the recaplet:
Tami sees them buying condoms and then goes home to wait for Julie to come home and then confronts her daughter and somehow finds a way to toe the line between saying "NO WAY IN HELL, MISSY" and also "I love you, and I want you to be able to talk to me about this" and if I sound breathless it's because it was all perfect.
but I just saw the scene again (Saturday marathon on Bravo) and that scene is so good.


and Tim. found the camera his father took - "I defended you." - "Get out." and his father! says "Watch how easy this is" (!) before he grabs his keys and walks out. what a.
so, the end:
Drive-by Camera, grey Texas suburbs, shabby ranch houses go by one by one. Tim stops his truck and hops out with the camera in his hand. His face is all kinds of fucked up. Coach opens the door and immediately asks Tim what happened. the concern in his expression is moving. Tim just hands him the camera; Coach asks if he is okay, and Tim sort of simultaneously almost wells up in tears and nods "yes." oh- baby. Coach invites him inside, but Tim chokes out that he'll just see Coach at practice and walks back to his truck, Coach looking after him with concern in his eyes and in his hair.