Suburgatory, S01E15
This week's episode wasn't exactly funny, but there was something cute about it. I think it had to do with the story about Dalia trying to bring Lisa to the "pink side." What did make it not a particularly great episode was that Noah was too heavily involved, and he's too much of a jellyfish (in terms of morals, courage and brains) to be that interesting. His wife was following the happy-divorce trend that Dallas was setting. I only wanted to see this story unfold in order to see what it would do for Dallas and George's relationship.
So let's talk about those two first. George was definitely showing how jealous he was of Dallas's new boy toy, who only wore white (as did she for most of the episode). I was less surprised that Dallas had gotten herself a little extra meat on her chest (as if she needed it) and more that she had decided to move on with someone like Yanni. I mean, Dallas won't win any awards for the deepest woman in the world, but I thought she had a little more substance to chose a a bit more wisely. It's crazy that she seemed to flirt more with George when she was married than she does now. I get the sense that George is trying to win her over slowly by his ice-cream (or was it yogurt?) treating gesture. And they both got the same thing! Must be love! But I guess George and Dallas won't get together so easily, or it wouldn't be any fun for those of us watching.
I liked that Dalia thinks a good revenge against Tessa is to get her best friend (I'm assuming they wouldn't have been able to get Malik?). It's a transparent move, but Lisa goes along with it anyway, too blinded by the brilliance of Dalia and her clique to care whether her ticket in is sincere or not. And Lisa is hardly apologetic for it; she's been starving to be someone that others envy and will take any chance she's got to become this person. You can't hate Lisa for this. Her own mother asked, "Who?" when Dalia told her that she was at their house to pick up Lisa. She's invisible even at her own home; of course, becoming one of Dalia's Barbies is a better deal than hanging with Tessa, who couldn't be popular if she tried.
However, I didn't like her too much when she left Malik hanging and forced him to dance with Kimantha. Their dancing together was hilarious, though. Tessa was smart to bring in one of Dalia's lackies to counteract Dalia's plan. Although Lisa had been completely made a Dalia clone on the outside, her insides remained the same; she still wanted Malik for herself. All right! Lisa even knocks Kimantha out of the way and grabs her man! Way to go, Lisa! I'm hoping that it won't be this one time thing and from now on they will be a couple.
After Lisa returned her Dalia Club membership, Tessa asked Dalia for a cease-fire since she isn't even dating Scott anymore, but Dalia has a different ax to grind; she is having trouble imagining her mother eventually marrying Tessa's dad. I shouldn't say "trouble" since Dalia not only foresees their parents getting together but also much further in the future where Dalia steals Tessa's girlfriend from college and then has to cater Dalia and said girlfriend's wedding. Wow. I couldn't believe how detailed she was! It was great. Tessa didn't have much to say after that and left Dalia alone. Good call. What could you say to all of that?
Lastly, I just want to say that Lisa is kind of scary. The next day she is even less apologetic about what she did and says that real friends are the ones you can take for granted because they'll stick by you or something. Then she demands for something to drink with a humorless expression. What, so now she thinks she is the shit because she was with Dalia for a few days? Well, I just gotta say that Malik has his hands full with a girlfriend like that. He'd be careful not to let her upgrade him the first opportunity that presents itself to her.
I wish this episode had a little more of the battle between Dalia and Tessa. We didn't get to see too much of Lisa enjoying being one of Dalia's "friends." And we didn't get to see Tessa agonizing too much over Lisa betraying them. Perhaps Tessa is too smart, as she didn't waste too much time to get Kimantha on her side, to fall for Dalia's cheap tricks. If so, I'd like to see Dalia come up with something more clever that Tessa can't so easily get out of. Maybe Dalia will start plotting against George so that he won't get any closer to her mom. That would be good. One thing is for sure, though: we don't need another Noah-centric story. Let's save those for a time when his character is less of a boring idiot to me.
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