The title describes the exact opposite of what this episode is for Val, Alex, and Laura. Nothing seems to go right for any of them. One is dating a co-worker. One wants to date her boss. One is dating someone who I guess could be her patient.
Things seem good for Alex and Judy, at first. Their first attempt at sex doesn't turn out well. Alex manscapes a little too much and then has performance issues. He isn't sure exactly what the problem is. He goes to see Jennifer, talks to her about it but she won't prescribe him Viagra which is what he is really hoping to get.
Valerie starts to wonder if Jack is planning to or will soon be cheating on her. She gets booted out of the storytelling class she was taking. She confronts Jack about what's bothering her but it doesn't seem like she is fully satisfied with the answer she gets.
Alex and Judy have dinner with Val and Jack, at Val's place. It doesn't go well. Alex questions whether sex addictions are real, not knowing that Jack has one. About the only good thing that seems to come out of the evening is that Alex and Judy finally have sex, in his car just outside of Val's house.
Laura's story bookends the other two stories. She is rejected by Casey and starts drinking. She shoplifts a bottle from a liquor store, drinks several bottles of her mother's wine, and pours herself a few drinks while she is babysitting Judy's son. The episode opens and closes with her singing Landslide by Fleetwood Mac while she babysits Clark.
This episode is structured differently than most others are on this show. It opens with Laura singing, then in jumps back two weeks and works it's way back to the opening scene. I'm not sure why the director felt the need to cut the episode in this way. The only thing that occurs to me is that she wanted to open and close with the same song and that seemed to be the best way to do so.
This was not an upbeat episode. It wasn't a bad episode, it just wasn't a happy one either. There was little in the way of humor and everyone's lives seemed to be headed in a downward trajectory. Leon and Leia are not in this episode.
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