The Chair
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How many entirelyrandomthings must be true for an episode like The Last Bus in Town to exist?
Ill text him, I imagine Amanda Peet saying.
David randomly owes me one.
(Do they even know that now?)
That he did it inMulders Speedowas as superfluous to the plot as it was stylish.
Unlike Bill, she immediately agrees to work with the PR flack on a statement of apology.
Actions, though, speak louder than words.
Then the dean fires his real warning shot: Are you two involved?
Its not a question but a threat.
The administration is watching you, Ji-Yoon.
Ji-Yoon calls to update Bill, but he doesnt answer.
Meanwhile, the neglected Ju Ju theater of Ji-Yoons multifront war refuses to be contained today.
She accuses her mother of being a puta who knows nothing about her Mexican heritage.
Upset, Ji-Yoon defends herself, but of course this isnt about information.
Ji-Yoon insists that Ju Ju understands more than she speaks, and what if thats right?
When her grandfather complains of the language barrier, does she hear something darker that shes not Korean enough?
Ji-Yoon doesnt have time to delve into that right now.
When she arrives at his country house, hes doing laps in his indoor pool.
Its pretty sick, basically an ad for quitting your Ph.D. and becoming a Hollywood star instead.
For his distinguished-lectureship talk, David tells Ji-Yoon hed like to revisit his doctoral thesis on Beckett.
Heck, he might even finish and submit it.
Shes supposedly there to help him, but shed rather shame him.
Objectively, its a bad look for Ji-Yoon.
Could there be an academic discipline more immediately accessible than literature?
Isnt that what makes it so special?
Just pick up a book and think about it.
Shell get him an honorary doctorate if hell just just renege.
Ju Ju knows all about it, which has me curious how old she was when she was adopted.
How many Doljabis has she been to?
Did she have one?
Does she wish she did?
Bill is growing irate that the adults are lobbying Minji to pick the money when she wants the paintbrush.
The scene doesnt really work as an analogy for whats going on in Bills life its just high talk.
It also spares us scenes of banishment.
Instead of rejecting Ji-Yoons degenerate boyfriend, her father sees him safely home.
And there are glimmers that Ji-Yoon would be lucky to have Bill, too.
Even Ji-Yoons victory over the distinguished lectureship is short-lived.
Its more complicated than that, which Ji-Yoon points out and Yaz already knows.
She can teach at Yale, where maybe fighting the Elliots wont be daily life.
Ji-Yoon seems broken, and she doesnt even know about the coup yet.
Ju Ju made an altar for her grandmother and namesake, Je-Hoo.
