The Journey through "The Weekenders" season 1 continues. If you missed our look at episode 5 then click here. We continue with episode 6's pair of segments now.
Episode 6 A : Makeover
That video game featured in the opening theme is now in an episode, well finally. Anyway, Lor is playing the game against some kid and wins and remember that guy from episode 1 , that Lor had a crush on? He's back! Now we find out that Thompson is first name and he apparently has asked Lor to hang out. Two girls who've never seen before take her somewhere. (To kill her?) Ok their names are Christi and Candy. (what?)
These two girls want to give Lor a make over according to their standards. They tell Lori that this magazine girl is what all boys want , even though Tino and Carver think the person in the magazine doesn't look good. The rest of them go doing their own make-overs. Eventually, they see what the new Lor looks like. She tries to eat food but, Christi and Candy uhhh don't want to. (see my question about killing her above.)
Lor does show questioning of feeling a bit wrong. Tino's mom says that Tino and his friends should let Lor figure out things herself. Meanwhile, Lor hears more of what those two girls want to do and it causes her to twitch but, that may have snapped her out of it back to normal. Also , if you'v been following along Thompson does like normal Lor and he didn't like the "other Lor". Meanwhile, Christi and Candy hear that Thompson doesn't like the model girl they like so, they instead decide to copy a rock climber. So happy ending for all?
It's a be yourself episode with that message that is alright to change how you dress and stuff as long as it is something you want to do and it's alright to want to be yourself and not change how you look. That's a nice expansion of that kind of message where it fills in nuisances of it. The advice by Tino's Mom to just make sure Lor is eating right and not doing anything to harm herself was a good touch and again the idea of expression as long as it doesn't do anything harmful was well crafted. It was a really good episode I give it 9.5/10
More after the Jump
Episode 6 B :The New Girl
Another make over episode? Hold on there! So far, we've seen Tish's parents but this episode gives us more of Tish's Mom. Tish's Mom wants to hang out with our characters. Tish's parents are not from America so they are trying to understand American customs especially Tish's Mom and she wants to become very Americanized. Another thing about Tish's Mom is there was a running gag where she says something but it doesn't sound like she intents like egg salad meaning excellent. So, she decides to hang out with Tish and the gang. Tish actually seems happy. (A different contrast to normal)
Tino, Carver, and Lor decide they are going to do a "high intensity" day to make Tish's Mom give up. Tish's Mom instead is good at roller blading and good at doing "How do you do fellow kids" talking. The others are impressed and think she is cool. In fact, Tish not feels a down that her mother is hanging out with her because the others think her mother is great and want to hang out with her more.
Tish tells her dad that she feels bad because her mother stole her life. He tells her a story that when her mother was a little girl she didn't get to have fun and now she might need a little fun. (Also Goat milk and ice bath fixes everything or something) Later on Tish's mother says that has decided not to have a weekend with her. She doesn't want Tish to miss out on child hood fun.
Darn episode, made me smile too much that's rude of it. I really liked it, It gave us some development on Tish's Mom that I wasn't expecting. They did a good job of not making this episode where it was like the characters getting annoyed by Tish's Mom and trying to ditch her or something but instead the kids finding her cool. Then the other thing where Tish feels kind of overshadowed by her mother instead of being embarrassed, it even started with her being energetic instead of sad.
It's a really good episode I give 10/10.
That does it for us this time , tune in next time when we wonder why isn't there a goat jerky pizza? Later Days!
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