Kevin Can F**k Himself
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Allisons having visions of Nick knocking at her door, all creepy horror style.
Nick, the oxy addict hired to kill Kevin last season, only to get shot by Kevin.
Theyre interrupted by Nicks mother, Cindy, who wishes Patty a happy birthday.
We have, like, a bond.
Allison bursts through the front door in Sitcom World, determined to throw Patty a surprise party tomorrow.
Partially because shes realizing that as a Future Dead Woman, shes going to miss her best friend.
At least shes currently staying in a (depressing) motel.
So: Patty is one ofthosebirthday people.
The ones who never mention it, the ones where you have to work to find it out.
She looks pretty in a robe in front of her gigantic vanity putting on makeup for dinner.
Tammy walks in and asks leading questions about gifts.
Need to find a birthday?
Tammy offers to take her and to even bring Allison, but that might not be happening.
In Sitcom World, Kevin is getting things ready for the party.
And what better way than by trying to set up Pete with a newly single and visibly sad Diane?
The only way to do that is to throw the greatest party ever.
Clearly Kevin can only do something if it benefits his own narcissistic vision.
Allison and Tammy are trying to get along for Pattys party.
Allison screams (another ghost-Nick vision) when Tammy enters through the back door.
Upon hearing that Allison is an only child, Tammy observes that she doesnt like to share.
Its Pattys birthday, her day, and Neil took her to the ice-skating rink.
Patty isnt very good at ice skating, shuffling around holding on to a tower of milk crates.
Neil ribs her; hes got the moves of a former hockey player.
Patty shoots back, Nobody wants to be great at ice skating.
She falls and asks Neil for help.
He just speeds away.
Neil is a menace on the ice, pushing people down, drinking openly.
A total disaster, and the OConnor family is banned for life from the rink.
Allison and Tammy have one last errand, and thats a stop at Sams diner to pick up cake.
Tammy barges in and the two look embarrassed, like theyve been caught doing something wrong.
And in the car, Tammy has their affair figured out.
She may be a perplexing character annoying?
All of the above?
but she is acting like pretty good at her cop job, considering.
And shes sympathetic to Allison, saying that having met Kevin, she gets it.
They have a moment.
Its his shenanigan of the week, and its all about Kevins potential happiness.
It is a dreary, sexist plot and not fun to watch, either.
But, you know, when Patty gets to the party, she hates it.
And scenes that are actually about Patty are in Bleak World.
Tammy invited everyone from Pattys client book.
Not her salon clients but her pill clients, like Cindy.
Allison lets Patty know that the police are still looking into the story of poor, comad Neil.
The party is a disaster.
Its a phase, she says, and you oughta help us out again.
Gah, thats dark.
But once again, Tammy puts cold water on a … familiar social moment.
Shes blunt, saying, I dont like you, and you dont like me.
And she tells Allison to back off in regards to Patty.
Allison, stormy, goes off to the front porch.
She sits there, moody, and Patty comes out for a smoke.
Allison says she got her menthol cigarettes, and they bond over the party being a disaster.
Patty gets to the point of the thing: Nobodys ever thrown me a party before.
He calls Allison a scam artist.
She tells him the truth, that shes planning to fake her death.
With the clarity of that change on the horizon, Allisons able to do things for people.
Shes able to think beyond herself.
Is the possibility of faking her death making her into a better person now?
Starbucks?!
Over Dunkies???
Who knows if the Tammy and Patty thing will last for long.
Tammy gets the Vermont footage shes been waiting for, and she sees Patty on the video doing crime.
Can she even trust her?
Is the show a love story between Allison and Patty, and is that romantic love or friendship love?
The queer interpretation is there.
Diane subtext: Neil is into her.
He was into her the whole episode, and their little nighttime detente over beers was sweet.
Documentary-like writing: Patricia OConnor?/ How many Pattys do you know?/ In Worcester?
It just feels gross to watch, mostly.
Every joke was at the expense of women existing and having qualities.
Perhaps my disgust implies that it is postmodern genius?
