Speaking of Spencer,
- She and Alex are really happy together and that makes ME really happy!
- But then when Alex and her mom see each other, there’s a clear moment of recognition, awkwardness, and avoidance.
- Spencer suspects that her mom did something really shitty to Alex at the country club,
- but Alex refuses to tell her! He just says it’s her mom’s story to tell.
- After her mom saves them from Detective Creeper, Spencer asks her mom what happened.
- Apparently, one weekend when the rest of the family was on a trip, Spencer’s mom had a lump removed from her breast.
- Afterwards, she got…super, super drunk at the country club and spilled out her guts to Alex.
- Alex got her a cab and made sure she got home safe.
- So really it’s just that she was embarrassed, and didn’t want people to know that she’d had the lump at all.
- She says, “Our family doesn’t handle imperfection very well.”
- And Spencer replies, “Being sick is not an imperfection.”
This episode made me really emotional! It had a lot of lovely little character arcs – Aria deciding to go out with Noel and have dinner with her mom, Hanna finding the courage to stand up for Lucas, Emily dealing with her feelings for Alison, and Spencer having an honest conversation with her mother.
But it can’t all end on sunshine and rainbows and healthy communication. No. Because we’ve still got Lucas’ unexplained muddy shoes, and we have a scene with A. They’re watching a video of Alison – all we see is a clip where she says to the person holding the camera, “I know you wanna kiss me.” A takes a jump drive out of the laptop and puts it into an envelope addressed to the police department.
They also put “ANONYMOUS” as the return address which…you could have just left it blank, but okay.
UGH. It’s so hard to stop watching this dang show! It’s so hard not to write a dissertation for each one of these posts!
But for now, we must stop here. I’ll see you next week.
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