Whip-Smart
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 04.15.2013
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How does Norma react to being put in jail for killing her rapist, while her husband-son is off losing her virginity? Oh, pretty well. Just kidding, she goes mental on everybody and screams at her adorable [young 30s nice woman] lawyer and screams at her adorable sons and generally wrecks shop all over the place... Until Deputy Shelby manages to "misplace" that crucial carpet evidence for love of her, and the whole case falls apart. That's so great, because Norma and Shelby could be really happy together. Just kidding, he keeps Chinese sex-slaves in his basement.
Or -- as of Norman's sloppy B&E (on A&E) -- in dead Keith Summers's old boat, as it turns out. As Emma explains, you have to think like a sex-slave-haver: You want multiple places to keep your sex-slaves, in case an Ambien zombie teen burglar finds her. Local color note: the sex boat is also [like the motel was] named The Seafairer .. where, yes, they do find Jiao .. growling and clawing at them and occasionally passing out.. It's a fun situation, a real "cool scene," and definitely something that children should try to handle all on their own. My favorite part was when she bit the shit out of Norman's hand and you're just like, "Welcome to every disease."
Norma sees red when she notices Emma's car outside one of the motel rooms because she assumes they are doing it, just to hurt her feelings. And then she assumes that they're doing it with some cracked-out Chinese chick, which I'm sure she'd find a way to blame on Dylan. And then finally the girl confirms Norman's story with a literal photograph of Deputy Shelby himself.
But what about Dylan? I know, right. I love that kid. So his whole thing is that when the second Norman told him the sordid story about the rape that became a murder, his wheels started turning about how he could
And then when Norma kicks Norman out of the car in the middle of nowhere -- which I'm not even mad about, she's just bein' Norma -- Dylan comes and saves him out of nowhere and they go on this brotherly motorcycle ride in their little helmets and their little outfits and they are loving it and it goes on for just long enough that you're done letting it make you cry when it's finished.
Love those boys. You know who else really cares about those boys?
Continuing his trend of being way too into Dylan's family dynamic, merc /mercenary/ partner Ethan -- crier-at-stripclubs, sayer-of-the-word-Bro-like-a-million-awkward-times -- hands Dylan five grand to start his new life as a single father-brother, because there is honor among drug mobsters. The next thing that happens is a random junkie who owes Dylan's boss money walks up to their truck and blows Ethan's sweet little head off. Dylan is down a good / his only friend, which is sad, but on the other hand he's up five Gs and a sick-ass truck, so... Back to the strip club to pick up the next weeping stranger, one supposes. /this recaplet is ~ on fire w energy.
But I had to wonder: What would be the ombudsman situation here? Does Dylan even know how to get in touch with their employer? We'll have to wait for next week for the answers to these pressing human resource /right/ issues, because the next thing Dylan decides to do does is track the junkie kid through the streets -- suspenseful and harrowing! -- and eventually run him down. So the whole "eye for an eye" thing is alive and well in Dylan... Dylan... Um. Dylan, if I'm going to love you this much I'm gonna need a full name. My vote is Texas. /ohh only got that on second reading. FNL! town in friday night lights is dillon, tx./
That was a joke. But what is not a joke is: I will miss you, Ethan! I especially liked how you were always crying at strip clubs, and randomly handing strange boys huge sums of money.
Next Week: Norma's dilemma... And probably Dylan will make some very valid points and hand out stellar advice, and everybody will still treat him like he's goddamn Theon Greyjoy /:) / because that's just his lot in life. "I guess I just have one of those faces where only mob heavies and drug dealers could see what a trustworthy guy I am." Which, to be fair. /he does? I don't know but class ending in twopj style whew, great style all through blitz of a recaplet. like, angry.
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Emma: "But how come?" [we can't go rescue Jiao now] Norman: "You are not allowed to ask questions. There is no further clarification available at this time. Stop hyperventilating, you have cystic fibrosis." (What he says is, "You're freaking out all over Italy!" /yes! wondered about that.// but the Google on that just is people wondering why the hell he said that, not what the reference actually is. When in doubt, I usually just say it's a line from The Big Lebowski because odds on it is /ha ha :)/, but given Norman's cineaste tendencies, I'd say that is too recent..)
Emma: "Hey, did your mom actually kill Keith Summers? That guy was the worst! I would actually be really impressed if..."
Norman: "She most certainly did not. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a date with a bail bondsman."
One thing that has been interesting to track has been Norma's habit -- and increasingly Norman's -- of just outright rejecting consensus reality and substituting her own. In one way it's a crazy person thing to do, but it's also how shit gets done. /y! "What I am saying is." //
when you think about revolutions, about the suffragettes and bloodier ones, the thing that keeps showing up is that in order to change anything, you have to be super weird. You have to exist outside the context to understand the context, but then you also take a giant step toward crazy when you decide to affect that context. I can't think of a person -- or at least an act -- that's been really pivotal in America's social history that wasn't absolutely balls-out crazy: Rosa Parks wasn't having it, Shulamith Firestone wasn't having it. That's the beauty of the breakdown and we have to catch those people /they deserve us catching them/ once they're all burnt up and fall back to earth.
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And what's more, people who successfully mediated both worlds -- the internal and the external /hm/ -- seem uniformly left behind even when they contribute greatly: Gloria Steinem, who saved the world and created the one we live in, is barely a footnote to the new bunch. Which is gross, but supports the point:
To create change, you have to be willing to be sacrificed to that change and that's super sad, but it's a closed sum. Martyrs are lunatics, because you would have to be. You never have a place in the Utopia you are creating. //this is prob smart. but I d n already know this, wh saying, so want-need it more to be actually said.
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