The awkward party — Shane's makeout partner is talking about Alice's ex, Gabby. Alice says Gabby is a freak, and "I'm through with mindfucks." What if the mindfuck's name is Dana? Yeah, I thought so. But at the moment, Alice is more into the shots of tequila she's downing.

This might be the only scene that really feels like Cholodenko to me — it's reminiscent of some of the awkward heroin-snorting parties in High Art. Otherwise, this episode has been largely disappointing, maybe because of that stupid poltergeist (not to mention Joyce and Mark), but also because it just never really came together, for lack of a better phrase.

Anyway, to finish off the party, Jenny looks uncomfortable and gives Carmen a shy smile. Carmen doesn't really respond, because she's still keeping an eye on Shane. She suddenly decides it's time to stop putting herself through this and makes a hasty exit. I like you, Carmen, and Shane is still a fool.

Free at last — Tina leaves the diseased guest house with a sigh.

Here we go again — From the studio, Mark's friend Gomey (Gomey?) watches the lesbians kiss. As if she knows exactly what Mark and Gomey wants to see, Shane leads everyone over to Bette's pool. The poltergeist sets the stage by burping "WET WET WET WET GET WET WET WET WET." Shane strips to her undies, dives in, and makes a point of shaking her wet fraggly head; one of the other women (who was in that weird jamacoaque scene last season) gets totally naked, as does Jenny; and Alice — oh no, Alice is topless! I can't look! It feels wrong! I blame the poltergeist.

The ballad of the sad hotel — Bette stumbles in, clearly drunk, and the PYT is right behind her. The PYT says it's a nice hotel. Bette says "It'll do" in this voice that's low and liquid and just not fair. She saunters over to the PYT, using that commanding walk of hers to full effect again. They proceed to demonstrate what I meant in last week's recap, when I said that in my wildest dreams, I am not facing Bette. Well, this is at least one variation on that theme. The sex is kinda empty, too, of course, but Bette's hands and lips and back and arms and power are so fucking hot, I almost don't mind. And when she grabs the PYT's hair and yanks her head back, my brain does its best impression of the poltergeist and says HOT HOT HOT HOT.

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