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Well, that is not what happens onWelcome To Chippendales!
Since when do the cool blue Eighties get bathed in ambient yellow light a la Spike Jonze?
Is that chamber music I hear?
Are those fade transitions?
I dont mean to overstate the change the series remains true to its montage heritage, for example.
You make revenge look miserable.
Not to mention short-lived.
After the calendar fiasco and lawsuit, money is tight.
Cheryls attorney fees are too high, particularly when you consider that she lost the last case spectacularly.
Steve, too, is high popping pills and chasing them with a mid-morning whisky.
Steve makes day drinking look miserable.
I would buy some stuff, but not tootoomuch stuff.
Its like Steve didnt hear her say they were going to lose their home!
All in all,Welcome to Chippendaleshas started to feel like a TV show co-written by a D.A.R.E.
Steve was once a total straight-edge.
But one time it only takes one time!
he did coke with his hot wife, and now hes addicted.
He needs more coke.
And more coke makes him a bigger dick to his wife and more of a fire code-violating criminal.
Steve hates laws and loves coke now.
But you cant outrun the law, and you cant outspend the city of Los Angeles.
Steve wants to fight the fire department, but Irene knows its over.
Chippendales was a fever dream and a sensation before it became the albatross around Steves egomaniacal neck.
Now, like all once dope hotspots, its but a piece of nightlife history.
Was it greed that undid the magic?
Was it Steves unchecked vanity?
Or was it the COCAINE?
BUT THEYVE BEEN SNORTING COCAINE, TOO!
I saw Denise, in the hotel, with the fancy vial!
So instead of gloating, theyre falling apart in jealousy.
Brad wants Nick to ice out Denise and leave the tour so they can be together in NYC.
When Nick does exactly that, shes heartbroken: Werethe couple.
Its not just that Nick is choosing romance over friendship, but that their love story was one-sided.
Still, its hard to begrudge Nick for his new boyfriend bliss.
Next up on their world domination strip tour: Europe.
instead of staying with Nick, one of its OG Four Geniuses.
Nick was alone when he died.
His jilted bestie was on the other side of the country with a busful of dancers.
His wicked boss was shutting up the west coast shop.
Irene sobs to learn of Nicks violent death, but Steve is preoccupied with the chain of information.
How does Irene know what she knows?
Who is telling whom, and what are they saying?
She grabs her little girl, gets in the car, and hopefully drives very, very far away.
Steve, however, is impervious to the charms of federal wordplay.
Nick wasnt his partner; he was his employee.
He insists he cant possibly be of help to the FBI, but evades their most basic factual questions.
Its about keeping Steve down.
Its about getting him to fall in line.
But Scott only has his hunch that Steves guilty and not any actual evidence.
Steve is free to go.
From Bombay to Los Angeles, from backgammon to strip club, hes a survivor by whatever means necessary.
