Minnie Driver! I’m also thrilled to let you know that she is perfect as Cath. We should talk about how mopey and down on his luck Tom seems at the moment - he is feeling some major ennui because of his career … and maybe a little bit because of Jessie? - but first, wow, I am so thrilled to let you know he has a meeting with his agent, and his agent is played by The Minnie Driver.
And then she runs into a bigger problem: Tom Kapoor is there.
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She runs into one problem: Her Uber driver can’t seem to find her, and her repeating that she’s on a corner doesn’t help. Anyway, it’s an epic spiral, and Jessie decides to flee the scene. Jessie spirals a bit about Dan being the worst and his girlfriend Claire’s new fringe and how it makes her very compatible with Dan because he too has fringe. Another red flag? When he hits on you and tells you he’s in a relationship in the same minute. You know, when any guy you haven’t seen in a while tells you that he’s been “focusing on music,” that is a giant red flag. Dan is very much an idiot, and Kate had every right to be annoyed at Jessie for meeting up with him for sex. Sure, Jessie might consider afternoon sex “basically an errand,” but she does finagle her way out of work early and get all dressed up to meet Dan. Someone please embroider it on a pillow and send it to me.
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Where and when? I’m free all day.” Oh, friends, this text makes me laugh so hard. Kate, of course, knows better and checks Jessie’s phone, on which she finds Jessie’s response: “lol. Kate is not thrilled to hear about it because Dan is a real prick, but Jessie insists she’s playing it cool and not super-enthusiastic about his invite to have a drink that afternoon. She’s not just having one-night stands, either - as Jessie says, “When it rains, it pours,” and she ends up getting a text to meet up from Dan, a guy with whom she has some sort of hookup-buddy situation. The whole two nights together will no doubt be chalked up to a funny story about that time she had sex with a celebrity. The opening works in another way, too: It lets us know that here, a few months after all those shenanigans with Tom Famous, Jessie has moved forward.
It also works on multiple levels: a hilarious bit a welcome depiction of a woman celebrating her sexuality a reminder of how good of a song “Return of the Mack” is a quick beat that reinforces the friendship between Jessie and Kate, who knows this is a post-sex celebration without having to ask and it goes without saying that the whole thing is a big showcase for Matafeo. It is euphoria (the good kind, not the youths-doing-drugs kind). There’s tiny hat-tipping to passersby, and there’s swinging off pergolas at a restaurant, and, by God, there’s chugging a stranger’s juice while doing body rolls. Early one morning, Jessie says good-bye to some dude she slept with the night before, confirms they are never going to see each other again and then turns on Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack,” opens her arms wide, and celebrates the beauty that is casual sex with no consequences or baggage. “Spring” opens with another true blessing: the most joyous post-one-night-stand celebration ever captured on film. First and foremost, there’s the easy, palpable chemistry between Rose Matafeo and Nikesh Patel that arrives literally any time they are onscreen together. We’re only two episodes in, and already Starstruck has given us gifts of which we are not worthy. Rewatch along with us and check back every Thursday morning for the next episode. Since we’re in rom-com season and the return of Starstruck is quickly approaching, Vulture is returning to where the romance began with weekly recaps of season one.
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