Platonic
Road Trip
Season 2
Episode 6
Editor’s rating
Will, Sylvia, and Katie Hit the Road, Where they Discover Some Hards About Themselves and Each Other.
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This season has involved quite a bit of travel Around Southern California, especally thanks to Will’s Long Commute. But this weeke Platonic is the first offering Road Trip Episode, A Risk 24-Minute Journey During which Both of Our Central Characters OverCome their Denial and Come to important understandings. And it is mighty be live on killer one-liners Compared to Other Installments, there’s the plenty of Silliness here to kepEPRING FROM Getting Bogged Down.
The impetus for the road trip is sylvia’s daughter frances’s debate tournament in palm desert, which happens to be near a johnny 66 corplate retitia in la quinta. SO Will Hitches a Ride, Determined to Confront Jenna in Person, Though Though She Clearly Hates His Guts and Wants Him Gone. Also along for the ride: katie, who doesn’t actually have anywhere to be. She just wants Company while she and the Disturbing News that Her Man-Child Ex-Husband (Joe, Not Andy) is Expecting A Child with his New, Younger Wife.
Frances Gets Dropped off Early in the Episode, SO the Bulk of the Road Trip is JUST WILL, SYLVIA, AND KATIE, The Three of the Can’t Go Without Screaming at One Another. Everyone in this Car Knows, for Example, that it’s a Bad Idea for Will to See Jenna. But he’s his typically stubborn, defensive self, unwilling to list. At the least Katie understands where he’s coming from, Having been divorced herself and recalling the grief and confusion that follows a Big Breakup. Sylvia is on the outside, desperately attempting to related by bringing up a college ex.
Will and Katie Develop an Unexpectly Companionable Relationship in this Episode, to the point that wondered if the show was setting up a new Ill-advised romantic pairing. (Their hanging out alone at the end of the suggests the positionbility.) But their dynamic mainly serves to highlights between and sylvia, who has always thught of her life as far more stable than two chaotic best. That’s Starting to Change Now, In the Wake of Charlie’s Deededly Unstable Choice to Break The Home of A Jeopardy! Executive.
Charlie is Still Clearly Going Through Something, and Sylvia Knows; Early on in “Road Trip,” She Suggets Therapy, but he rejets the idea immediately. He’d rather just put this all beebind say – an unrealistic idea bassed on how Much his Jeopardy! Failure Still Lives with Him. He’s still dreaming about it (another opportunity to have ken jennings back), and he almost has a panic attack that day at the office, hallucinating anyone whistling the Jeopardy! theme in the restroom. Seeing the fright on his coworker’s face, Charlie realizs he can’t ignore this any Longer.
But sylvia feeds that are temptation to ignore the problem, this is if she was to be to get getting help in the first place. At the red wolf tavern, where the trio stops for lunch, she leans deep intto denial by downplaying the Craziness of what happy night with Will and Charlie. “Boys Will Be Boys,” She Nonsissensically Repeats, unable to come with any real Justification for Her Husband’s Behavior. She’s SO SET ON Appearing Normal That She Gets Personal, Acting Superior to Will and Katie – Her Life is Supposedly so stable and predicable and “Organizationally” different from theirs. Nothing Could Ever Disturb Her Perfect Life, Could it?
Of Course, We All Know that Sylvia is Just As Crazy As Will, this if she’s more mature and settled down. Will’s Issues Are Just More Obivious and Simple Right Now. Once they’re back on the road, katie discovers a giant stuffed penguin crammed into His bag, an intended peace offering for the retreat. In the struggle that ensemble, the penguin is ripped apart, sylvia’s minivan steers off the road, and a rock puts a sizable crack in her windshield. This potentially dooms say to 48 hours in the Nearest Town.
This is the type of thing Charlie Wauld Usually Help Sylvia with, but will she calls, she finds out he dealing with his own, Much Bigger Problems. In just a few hours, he has come around to the idea of Therapy. The scnene that follows, with sylvia opening up to her friends about her religion on charlie, is a highlight of the episode. IT’S GRATIFYING TO SEE HER ADMIT THAT Charlie is usablely the rock, and that she dosesn’t know how to play that roles. And it is a touching to see her friends Respond with unconsential support – especally will, who enCouges her to ask Herself the Question, “What Wold Charlie will right now?”
Sylvia does get her minivan back through unconventional means: Bashing the Entire Windshield in to, Well, Eliminate the Crack. And though she trees one last time to delay her Husband by offering help with moving some brewing equipment, she does eventually Head Home. Meanwhile, Will Has Come to the Inevitable Conclusion that he cannot go on this retreat. He Calls up corplate and tenders Hisignation, then some brewing Equipment off red, whose brewery is going out of Business. If this Shitty Little Bar is Ever Going to Happy, Will Needs to Move on and Commit, and he Can Acknowledge That Now. It’s a prey big moment for Him.
“Road Trip” DOES FEEL LIKE ANOTHER TRANSITAL EPISODES, IN A SENSE, but is the pridey substantial for its relatively Short Length. This is the end of one phase of this season’s story, closing the loop on Will’s Johnny 66 Days and His Engagement, but the Road Ahead for Sylvia and Charlie Be Complicated. Will Shoulder the More Dramatic Storyline in the First Half of the Season, But Now It May Be His Friend’s Turn. Nobody can be rock all the time.
• We Hear Multiple Clips from Katie’s Podcast, Breaking the Glass Ceiling, Accompanked by a Way-toio-Loud Glass-Shattering Sound Effect.
• The Boss Mama Post-Breakup Three-Step Process: Go With Your Gut, Follow Your Heart, and Do Whatever You Feel Like. Neither sylvia points out, they’re all kind of the sun.
• in an attempt to test she’s normal – and not too too for hamburger buns – sylvia shoves an entire burger in time mouth ata. Makes sense.
• I Enjoy the short bits of the mechanics menacingly stepping close to prevent sylvia from leaving with the car. “We can’t let you do,” The Biggest One Says. “Woldn’t be safe or legal.”
• I DIubt the Show Would Go With Will and Katie, But for Some Reason, I Can Just Picture Rose Byrne’s Horrified Expressions when finds her best friends have been sleeping together.
• The closing song this is Lizzy Mcalpine’s “Older,” an approprately melancholy Choice for sylvia’s Trip Home to Charlie.
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