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“Marry Me” recap (1.8): Stand By Me

It’s Wednesday! That means another recap of Marry Me, featuring the many faces of Kay. The whole gang is shopping at the new organic grocery store in Gil’s neighborhood with Dennah notices a disturbing dynamic. Jake seems to take care of Gil a lot- going to his doctor’s appointments, buying groceries for him. Is it sweet or strange? Does Jake take care of Gil too much?

Annie assures Dennah that everything is normal. As they walk past the meat section, Kay sees Linda the Butcher, aka the one that got away-with her credit card. She’s hot. She’s great in bed. But, she’s also a thief. “I’ll catch up with you guys. I need some meat,” Kay says.

Annie and Dennah remind Kay that she told them not to let her go talk to Linda. They agreed to keep her away from Linda because they know that Kay deserves better. Kay does her best to make her way to Linda, who is looking pretty hot in her Rosie the Riveter updo and her tattoos, but her friends keep their promise and steer her away.

As the group leaves the store, Jake offers to help Gil deal with the tree trimmers who disturb his sleep at 6:00 am every morning, then he helps Gil cross the street. Annie begins to see Dennah’s point and decides to talk to Jake about it.

At first Jake doesn’t get it. He insists that Gil leads on him as much as any other man relies on his best buddy. But the ladies aren’t buying it.

Then Gil comes over in desperate need of Jake’s help. He can’t put together the juicer Jake helped him buy so he went to get some food. After eating a whole bucket of calamari he realized that he lost his wallet. Oh, and his keys attached to it so he is locked out of his apartment at as well. Kay’s reaction to this crisis is like:

Jake begins to see everyone’s point. Jake helps Gil out and then has a talk with him about being more independent and taking care of himself. It doesn’t go well. They fight. Gil tells Jake that he doesn’t ever want to see him again. Jake is sad and hurt, but he knows it’s for the best. As he struggles to find out who he is without Gil he decides to spend more time with the girls. Jake crashes the Annie’ girls day out with Dennah and Kay just as they were having brunch.

Dennah tries to complain about her birth control making her bloat, but Jake get’s grossed out and changes the subject. Dennah catches Kay texting with Linda the Butcher and she and Annie try to dissuade Kay from hooking up with her because the last time they hooked up, Linda stole Kay’s credit card and bought a horse with it. But Jake disagrees. Linda is hot! She may be crazy, but it’s the crazy ones who are the best in bed, amirite? “Your man has a point. She really knows how to jiggle my gelatin,” Kay offers.

The worst part is that he crashes their yoga class and upstages Dennah as the star yogi in the class. The ladies realize that they have to get Jake and Gil to make up ASAP. They hatch a plan to have the guys casually run into each other at the grocery store. But Gil has really evolved over the past couple of days. He put together the juicer all by himself. Started using Instagram. Bought new clothes. He doesn’t need Jake anymore. And for Gil’s sake, he pretends he doesn’t want to be friends. He sees that Gil is taking control of his life ever since Jake stopped enabling him. Gil storms off. Jake storms off. Annie goes to follow Jake.

Dennah storms off to find another yoga class since Jake ruined the last one. The next thing you know, Kay is left in the grocery store all alone. And she happens to be right across from the meat aisle….

The next day, Kay shows up to lunch with Annie and Dennah. “Girl, where have you been?” Dennah asks. “Well, you left me alone with Linda the Butcher so I went home with four pounds of top sirloin and 110 pounds of sexual fury!”

“Oh no!”

“Oh yeah,” Kay confirms. “And our relationship is toxic. Toxic to the tune of she robbed me!”

Dennah and Kay begins to fight and Annie confesses that by playing God, they not only broke Gil and Jake’s relationship, they messed up the whole gang dynamic. “It’s like the bees,” says Kay.

Dennah asks, “Is that some sort of slang way of saying it’s the worst?”

“No, bitch,” Kay corrects her. “I have a degree in Environmental Science from Stanford. Make one small chance in an ecosystem and it causes a ripple effect that changes everything.”

The trio decides that the only thing left is to give Gil a task so big, that he has no choice but to call Jake for help. So, they send him an armoire from IKEA thinking that he’ll never be able to put it together on his own. But, surprisingly, he does. It seems like Gil doesn’t need help with anything anymore. Well, except maybe dealing with the tree trimmers.

When they show up to trim the trees outside his window, he confronts them but when they surround him, he runs up a ladder and into a tree to escape them. The tree trimmers removed the ladder and now he can’t get down. He calls Jake to talk things out. Jake arrives and they bury the hatchet. Jake helps Gil out of the tree. Later the whole gang is happy to be together. They are celebrating Gils newfound independence by drinking some of his homemade juice. But it seems Gil hasn’t mastered everything yet. When Annie, Dennah and Kay sit down at his newly built dinette set, the chairs fall apart under them. Looks like he still needs Jake’s help after all. Maybe, just a little.

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