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“Younger” recap (2.6): Un-Jaded

So, apparently Liza fucked up her shoulder and has to swing by the doctor’s before she goes to work. Josh comes along for moral support, but he’s convinced it was just some “sexual wizardry” from the night before. The doctor is like, “Nope; it’s 40-year-old shoulder.” Seriously? That cannot be a medical term.

At Empirical, Diana and Charles are discussing a new book deal in the works. They want The Male Feminist by Hugh Shirley (David Wain). His YouTube video lecture highlights a segment in which he simulates breastfeeding to some baby that’s passed off to him on stage. While he goes on waxing philosophical, professing expert level opinions about women’s rights and women’s injustices, Diana’s eyes roll out of her head. But she’s going to be “gamier” than ever, or so she promises to Charles.

Yet again, the hustle and bustle at Empirical plays as the center point of the episode-Trout must kiss ass to land this deal and play it cool with Charles despite her inability to control her anxiety-flirting. Meanwhile, Liza and Kelsey are in whole other playing field-not the one that kisses ass, the one that sends Jade’s ass out on the stoop. She just blew the last of her advance on a diamond pacifier.

Her shoulder may be out of commission, but the light bulb in Liza’s brain is still at work. She tells Kelsey she’ll gather up all of Jade’s wild, pathetically entertaining social media posts to use as a first chapter. Since they own the rights to her social media, it’s fair game, and Liza stays up all night putting the chapter together for the second phase of their plan.

In the morning, she wakes up to the sounds of Maggie blow-torching her Hindu warrior goddess sculpture. Lauren emerges from the bedroom with a glorious idea: She should send a picture of Maggie’s creation to Hector and Dorff, the machismo designers who made Kelsey look like a dead walrus at her imprint launch party. Maggie’s like, “Cool.” When Liza asks Maggie if Lauren’s living here now, Maggie makes the classic U-Haul joke-that a lesbian always brings one to the second date. Will it last?

It could. Lauren’s spontaneous fire mixed with Maggie’s watery, free-spirited chillin’ self? They both dig taking chances, making moves, and being a part of the art world. Clearly, they have chemistry they can’t ignore. And look, Maggie’s up early melding shit together-she’s inspired; she’s making art and having lots of sex.

“I loved you in ‘Flashdance.'”

Phase two is now complete-Lauren sends the first chapter Liza wrote to her pal at The Cut. Charles is pissed the chapter leaked. Kelsey and Liza move into phase three. Kelsey will meet with her old intern-friend at Achilles Press on a covert mission to sell this book-that-isn’t-a-book and take it off Empirical’s hands. No one even knows Jade blew her advance, the implication being that Charles wouldn’t be the kind of guy who tracks Jade’s every move on Twitter-he simply believes the girls when they say this is her first chapter, and she leaked it because that’s a very Jade thing to do.

Someone else is having a meeting, and that’s Diana and Hugh Shirley. He’s asked her to dinner to discuss his new book and some of his thoughts on feminism-a diatribe ensues about Western men, menstruation, and Hugh wearing a tampon for a week just to “see how it feels.” Diana Trout is like a crag, ready to erupt, (decorated in giant geometrical jewelry.) For a moment, it’s hard to know the real underpinning of Trout-she doesn’t give off a “feminist” vibe, but we know she’s tough as nails. She’s not concerned with crushing the patriarchy; she’s concerned with getting some more damn wine right now, and hurry. But the more she hears from Hugh about his “Catch-22” woes with not being able to help women from the outside as a cisgender white man, she begins to lose her cool, and her rocks go off.

“I’m sorry, but you will never know what it’s like to be a woman!” A real man just can’t deny a woman’s worth is written all over his face. “I just want to be inside women-I just want to be inside you,” he finally says to her. So creepy. But, SHE GOES FOR IT. They’re suddenly making out on a fence by the cab pick-up outside. She wants to do this. But before she can give the cabby her address, he’s putting her in the cab alone and directing the driver to take her home-careful to point out that it’s not because she can’t get home without a man’s guidance. Diana’s reaction says it all: Liza might have 40-year-old-shoulder, but Trout believes she has 40-year-old-bad-fucking-luck.

“That’s repulsive.”

Maggie and Lauren stroll over to Hector and Dorff’s to check out the goddess sculpture. It’s being used as a rack for outerwear. Lauren’s appalled and puts up a fuss while H&D hover above them on hover-boards. Maggie’s perfectly okay with all of this, as long as the check goes through. She’s here to live (lest we forget the sex part-ay). It’s nice Lauren wants to stand up for her woman, but Maggie’s more than fine. In fact, she’ll make more sculptures for their flagship store. Cha-ching!

In the end, Charles realizes Kelsey and Liza’s plot to rid Empirical of Jade Winslow. He adults his way through the conversation, no punishments necessary-“just spend that money wisely,” he says, like a total Dad. Liza and Josh regroup. She pulled her shoulder and then she pulled an all-nighter, and Josh has the just the cure: His “26-year-old massage.” Lez be honest: You thought he was going to say dick.

“Yeah, I thought he was going to say dick.”

Tune in next week for an all-new episode of Younger on TV Land. And follow me on Twitter @the_hoff. What do you think about Lauren moving in with Maggie? #Laggie

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