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Hellcats 1x08 Review
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This was a pretty good episode with a lot happening (for this show) and actual forward movement. This was the first episode that had me looking forward to the next episode. I want to see the fallout of Savannah learning that Dan and Marti had lost their virginity together and how it plays out. I want to see how Alice getting the magazine article for the Hellcats instead of it being for the football team plays. Maybe I’ll get Alice & Hellcats vs Bill after all.
• I’ve discovered that I kind of love Alice. I loved her using the opportunity at the magazine interview to talk about the squad and I love that when Bill Marsh got in her face the first time she stood up to him. I love that she invited Kelsey to the Hellcats spirit party and had apparently been wooing her since the interview. (Also I kind of got some Kelsey/Alice vibes during their interview and at the least I think Kelsey has a crush.) I also loved: “She’s my plus one. Kelsey’s my date. You’re just my cheerleader husband. The old ball and chain.” That made me cheer a little inside. And “I don’t like expectations. I defy them.” because that was awesome and describes Alice so well.
• Yikes, I felt so horrible for Alice during her confrontation with Bill Marsh. It made me so uncomfortable – both myself and for her – and it was just a horrible situation all around. I wish the she had stood up to him the second time – that she’d turned around and walked away like I was expecting – because I’d have loved to see the fall out and all her teammates rallying around her and, hopefully, him being fired. But I understand why she gave in to him.
• Somewhat strangely I actually felt for Jake right then as well. Ideally he should have had her back but I understand why he didn’t say something. I mean Jake deals with Bill possibly every day and knows exactly what he’s like. I think the fact that he didn’t stay chatting with the reporter and covering for Bill but instead followed them says a lot about him – and it also makes me wonder if Bill has ever gotten violent with anyone. But anyway Jake – I saw in his expression empathy and sympathy and he tried to help with his head shake. I think he’s probably been in the same position she was in before, or at the very least seen it happen a number of times, and just couldn’t force himself to put himself in the way of Bill’s bullying. I understand that. Standing up for Alice would have made him a better person, certainly a stronger one, but how he reacted was a very human and understandable. Of course then the next time we see them it’s him waving away Alice’s anger over what happened and actually laughing at her and it made my sympathy for him slip away pretty quickly
• I was definitely not on his side during their second argument/disagreement at the spirit party – as Alice said Kelsey clearly stated the football interview was bust anyway. That she has to be completely supportive of his life/’work’ to the point of subsuming her own – playing charming football ‘wife’ and turning down a piece of PR good for her ‘job’ – and he doesn’t have to show even the slightest bit of respect for her work (‘freaking Hellcats’, numerous other times) is so aggravating, even more so because it rings so true to real life. Also the idea that she’s ‘stabbing him in the back’ doesn’t fly for me. And she has a point about him not showing her respect and having her back (which is what he is demanding from her.)
• Dan totally made a crack and I think Savannah had a right to feel defensive about it. It annoyed me when she said ‘sorry’ I guess because I can see myself in that situation and having the same response and I don’t think Savannah needed or should have felt like she needed to apologise. I get that Marti and Lewis were trying to help the situation and get rid of the tension by backing Dan up but... eh.
“You guys want me to invite Dan into my bed, right? Ease the tension.” ...and then Savannah went off the rails. I think she was freaking out in her head and went into crazyland there.
• “I’m a good girl and I resent being forced to apologize for it.” And now Savannah has me feeling whiplash because seconds ago I was feeling the same that as she just expressed but with this line (and the craziness just before it) I suddenly find myself irritated with her. First, as Dan says, no one ‘forced’ her to apologize. She did that on her own, and I realise it was probably automatic and she was desperately uncomfortable, but it was still a choice she made. No one asked for that apology and she shouldn’t put it on them. Second, I resent her classifying herself as a ‘good girl’ and how very judgemental it really is. She states that she is the ‘good girl’ because she doesn’t allow guys in her bed and thus the implication there is that Marti, conspicuously with a guy in her bed (and who she’s slept with), is what – a ‘bad girl’? And thus all the names and judgements that go along with that? I don’t think that Savannah really thinks like that – if you were to sit her down and ask her and get her to think about it – but subconsciously the way she was raised has her saying things like this that can really be taken the wrong way.
• “So much for my orgy fantasy.” – Dan. First - !! Second – orgy fantasy. Not a threesome fantasy, not an orgy with just the girls but an orgy with another guy involved. And yes it was clearly a joke, and this is Savannah so never happening, but he still went there and now I kind of love him for it.
• I was kind of hoping that Marti/Lewis could be the unexpected long haul couple but I am really not getting that feeling with them. Too bad. I am enjoying them while we have them though.
• I liked the Dan/Alice chat and it could be interesting if the two of them became friends.
• I really did feel for Savannah and her worry about her virginity and how it affected her relationship with Dan but she was really approaching the whole thing from such a wrong angle. I mean – “This night is for Dan so...” – what even is that?! She keeps talking about how special she thinks it should be and how important it is to her but her losing her virginity is suddenly ‘for Dan’? Oh, Savannah no. Then there was: “I’ve reached a point in my life where I just have to hurry up and get it over with.” which I can understand and yet it doesn’t feel very Savannah. It all feels like instead of getting to that place organically she’s worked herself into a frenzy about it and pressured herself, and convinced herself that she has to lose it now. The whole thing just really has ‘mistake’ written all over it.
• Dan really irritated me when he was planning to go through with sleeping with Savannah – despite the new complication in his relationship with Marti and his feelings with her, and knowing what a huge deal this was for Savannah – he knew that it was a mistake but he was still going to do it. I was really disappointed in him.
• “That my dear is love. It’s love.” – Wanda Um, yeah. But nothing in the examples Wanda gave – confiding in Dan, asking for advice late at night, letting him take care of her when she has the flu – say anything about romantic love. That all speaks to the love for a best friend far more than being in love with someone. Now Wanda’s talk about Marti having confessed when they were younger to being in love with him (though it sounds more like a crush) and having read Marti’s diary is a more compelling argument. Except those things are from when Marti was a teenager, years ago, and it is Wanda here so still not reliable at all.
• I really like Marti and Dan as BFFs. That’s what I’ve wanted from them from the beginning. It’s been obvious that Dan loved Marti from the pilot but this is the first episode that it felt like Marti was in love with him as well. I liked the Dan/Marti conversation at the dance even though to be honest it confused me. I love that Dan went from his conversation with Wanda straight to Marti and was completely honest and upfront with her about it. Also I loved his little aside – “if you still keep a diary you need a better lock’ – which by and by was such a best friend thing to do! Marti’s reaction however was awkward, which she was clearly feeling, but also a bit confusing to me. Her implying that Wanda was right but not being willing to either talk about it or acknowledge it made me go ‘um’. Clearly there is some story to be told about their past, and how it’s ‘complicated’ and I want to see it, if only to put her reaction in context, but I don’t want them to end up as a couple. The fact that they were each other’s first’s as well as childhood best friends seems to be pointing, by all TV standards, to them ending up together.
This was a pretty good episode with a lot happening (for this show) and actual forward movement. This was the first episode that had me looking forward to the next episode. I want to see the fallout of Savannah learning that Dan and Marti had lost their virginity together and how it plays out. I want to see how Alice getting the magazine article for the Hellcats instead of it being for the football team plays. Maybe I’ll get Alice & Hellcats vs Bill after all.
• I’ve discovered that I kind of love Alice. I loved her using the opportunity at the magazine interview to talk about the squad and I love that when Bill Marsh got in her face the first time she stood up to him. I love that she invited Kelsey to the Hellcats spirit party and had apparently been wooing her since the interview. (Also I kind of got some Kelsey/Alice vibes during their interview and at the least I think Kelsey has a crush.) I also loved: “She’s my plus one. Kelsey’s my date. You’re just my cheerleader husband. The old ball and chain.” That made me cheer a little inside. And “I don’t like expectations. I defy them.” because that was awesome and describes Alice so well.
• Yikes, I felt so horrible for Alice during her confrontation with Bill Marsh. It made me so uncomfortable – both myself and for her – and it was just a horrible situation all around. I wish the she had stood up to him the second time – that she’d turned around and walked away like I was expecting – because I’d have loved to see the fall out and all her teammates rallying around her and, hopefully, him being fired. But I understand why she gave in to him.
• Somewhat strangely I actually felt for Jake right then as well. Ideally he should have had her back but I understand why he didn’t say something. I mean Jake deals with Bill possibly every day and knows exactly what he’s like. I think the fact that he didn’t stay chatting with the reporter and covering for Bill but instead followed them says a lot about him – and it also makes me wonder if Bill has ever gotten violent with anyone. But anyway Jake – I saw in his expression empathy and sympathy and he tried to help with his head shake. I think he’s probably been in the same position she was in before, or at the very least seen it happen a number of times, and just couldn’t force himself to put himself in the way of Bill’s bullying. I understand that. Standing up for Alice would have made him a better person, certainly a stronger one, but how he reacted was a very human and understandable. Of course then the next time we see them it’s him waving away Alice’s anger over what happened and actually laughing at her and it made my sympathy for him slip away pretty quickly
• I was definitely not on his side during their second argument/disagreement at the spirit party – as Alice said Kelsey clearly stated the football interview was bust anyway. That she has to be completely supportive of his life/’work’ to the point of subsuming her own – playing charming football ‘wife’ and turning down a piece of PR good for her ‘job’ – and he doesn’t have to show even the slightest bit of respect for her work (‘freaking Hellcats’, numerous other times) is so aggravating, even more so because it rings so true to real life. Also the idea that she’s ‘stabbing him in the back’ doesn’t fly for me. And she has a point about him not showing her respect and having her back (which is what he is demanding from her.)
• Dan totally made a crack and I think Savannah had a right to feel defensive about it. It annoyed me when she said ‘sorry’ I guess because I can see myself in that situation and having the same response and I don’t think Savannah needed or should have felt like she needed to apologise. I get that Marti and Lewis were trying to help the situation and get rid of the tension by backing Dan up but... eh.
“You guys want me to invite Dan into my bed, right? Ease the tension.” ...and then Savannah went off the rails. I think she was freaking out in her head and went into crazyland there.
• “I’m a good girl and I resent being forced to apologize for it.” And now Savannah has me feeling whiplash because seconds ago I was feeling the same that as she just expressed but with this line (and the craziness just before it) I suddenly find myself irritated with her. First, as Dan says, no one ‘forced’ her to apologize. She did that on her own, and I realise it was probably automatic and she was desperately uncomfortable, but it was still a choice she made. No one asked for that apology and she shouldn’t put it on them. Second, I resent her classifying herself as a ‘good girl’ and how very judgemental it really is. She states that she is the ‘good girl’ because she doesn’t allow guys in her bed and thus the implication there is that Marti, conspicuously with a guy in her bed (and who she’s slept with), is what – a ‘bad girl’? And thus all the names and judgements that go along with that? I don’t think that Savannah really thinks like that – if you were to sit her down and ask her and get her to think about it – but subconsciously the way she was raised has her saying things like this that can really be taken the wrong way.
• “So much for my orgy fantasy.” – Dan. First - !! Second – orgy fantasy. Not a threesome fantasy, not an orgy with just the girls but an orgy with another guy involved. And yes it was clearly a joke, and this is Savannah so never happening, but he still went there and now I kind of love him for it.
• I was kind of hoping that Marti/Lewis could be the unexpected long haul couple but I am really not getting that feeling with them. Too bad. I am enjoying them while we have them though.
• I liked the Dan/Alice chat and it could be interesting if the two of them became friends.
• I really did feel for Savannah and her worry about her virginity and how it affected her relationship with Dan but she was really approaching the whole thing from such a wrong angle. I mean – “This night is for Dan so...” – what even is that?! She keeps talking about how special she thinks it should be and how important it is to her but her losing her virginity is suddenly ‘for Dan’? Oh, Savannah no. Then there was: “I’ve reached a point in my life where I just have to hurry up and get it over with.” which I can understand and yet it doesn’t feel very Savannah. It all feels like instead of getting to that place organically she’s worked herself into a frenzy about it and pressured herself, and convinced herself that she has to lose it now. The whole thing just really has ‘mistake’ written all over it.
• Dan really irritated me when he was planning to go through with sleeping with Savannah – despite the new complication in his relationship with Marti and his feelings with her, and knowing what a huge deal this was for Savannah – he knew that it was a mistake but he was still going to do it. I was really disappointed in him.
• “That my dear is love. It’s love.” – Wanda Um, yeah. But nothing in the examples Wanda gave – confiding in Dan, asking for advice late at night, letting him take care of her when she has the flu – say anything about romantic love. That all speaks to the love for a best friend far more than being in love with someone. Now Wanda’s talk about Marti having confessed when they were younger to being in love with him (though it sounds more like a crush) and having read Marti’s diary is a more compelling argument. Except those things are from when Marti was a teenager, years ago, and it is Wanda here so still not reliable at all.
• I really like Marti and Dan as BFFs. That’s what I’ve wanted from them from the beginning. It’s been obvious that Dan loved Marti from the pilot but this is the first episode that it felt like Marti was in love with him as well. I liked the Dan/Marti conversation at the dance even though to be honest it confused me. I love that Dan went from his conversation with Wanda straight to Marti and was completely honest and upfront with her about it. Also I loved his little aside – “if you still keep a diary you need a better lock’ – which by and by was such a best friend thing to do! Marti’s reaction however was awkward, which she was clearly feeling, but also a bit confusing to me. Her implying that Wanda was right but not being willing to either talk about it or acknowledge it made me go ‘um’. Clearly there is some story to be told about their past, and how it’s ‘complicated’ and I want to see it, if only to put her reaction in context, but I don’t want them to end up as a couple. The fact that they were each other’s first’s as well as childhood best friends seems to be pointing, by all TV standards, to them ending up together.