Look at Me
Valerie suffers a bit of regret at hooking up with Byron, the guy from her writing class. She just wants sex. He seems to want to have a relationship. She tries hitting on a barista at her favorite coffee place but he can't even seem to remember her name.
Alex tries to be helpful by going on a double date of sorts with Val and Byron. He pairs up with her landlady whom he meets through a dating app. It goes well at first but only because he is lying to her. He doesn't have a job, although he dis apply for one earlier in the episode, one that seems below what he wants. He leads her to believe that he is a dot com millionaire who recently cashed out. She's down with that until she learns that he's been lying. It all comes apart when his latest AirBnB guest inadvertently spills the beans.
Val suffers through a night of sex with Byron. She doesn't know how to end it so she sleeps with him. The next day she text him to tell him that she doesn't want to get serious. That night in class he reads a story about getting his heart shredded. He doesn't name who did it but it is clear that he is referring to her.
Laura is kind of on her own in this one. She starts to take her job gathering signatures for green ballor initiatives more seriously. That falls apart when a woman questions how much she knows about the people at the top of the organization she works for.
On the whole I liked it. I was surprised that Alex and Val's landlady lasted as long as they did. Laura's transformation seemed a little fast but maybe it wasn't a transformation. She is still in a state of flux trying to find something to cling to or at least that's my read of Laura.
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