Casual 3.09

Fresno

Val and Jack go to Fresno to visit Rich, the half-brother Val only just recently learned about. It doesn't go well. Rich can't stop talking about X-Men Days of Future past and Val is completely bored. It doesn't help that Jack still isn't ready for sex. Val doesn't say that but it seems like that's what she needs. She finally gets it at the end of the episode.

Alex makes a pass at Judy. She rejects him. He finally talks to Rae, for the first time since they had sex. She tells him he's too selfish. The next day he offers up his house for a photo shoot for a YouTube star, who never shows up for the shoot. It gives Alex the chance to spend some more time with Judy. They share a fairly chaste kiss before she heads home.

Casey comes over and cooks for Laura, while her mother is gone. Nothing physical happens between them but Laura certainly looks like she hoped something would. The next day at a city council meeting Laura makes an impassioned plea to the council on the issue before them. It impresses Casey but then before anything can happen between them Casey announces that she's taking off for Sacramento. There is another battle to be fought there,

Leon and Leia spend the weekend together, for the first time, I think. Things are moving fast. It looks like he is going to move in with her, at least temporarily, while his apartment is being worked on.

I don't know if I have much hope for either Alex and Judy or Val and Jack. Judy is separated from her husband. I think she is going to go back to him, maybe for the sake of her son, and break Alex' heart. Jack and Val are poison. I think Val needs to backup and reassess where she is where her life is going. She's been leaping from one thing to another throughout this season, with Jack being just the latest. Maybe it is healthy on one level to live her life this way but I don't think it is healthy in the long run.

Overall a good episode. I want to see where things go from here. I want to keep watching even if I feel like some of these relationships are doomed.