we had a long hiatus but i promise i am going to be doing this regularly for awhile here.
this episode was written by josh schwartz, directed by samford bookstaver
The box set description for this episode:
What happens in Mexico stays in Mexico. But the secrecy surrounding a summer’s-end teen trip to Tijuana can’t stop Marissa from feeling the way she feels when she sees Luke with Holly.
episode superlatives and statistics:
her parents are getting divorced you stupid slut!
i love authentic mexican culture
my hair is frizzing out, i look like howard stern.
oh summer you take the cake this time. it’s too iconic not to pick. her peasant blouse she wears in mexico is one of my favs too
worst: i didn’t hate anything this episode tbh. everything was either normal or good 🤷♀️
I can’t pick Into Dust since it played in an earlier episode so im gonna go with Movie Script Ending by Death Cab even though its one guitar and a whole lotta complaining!
we’re going to TJ!! I thought this was insane growing up as a midwesterner but ive met some people from the valley who say that teen trips to Baja and Tijuana actually happened a lot.
ratio of punches to bagels:
still no bagels guys. however ryan punches luke, yay!! 1:0.
worst secondhand embarassment:
everyone thank holly fischer for inspiring a new category. this was created just to highlight her baby voice when she says “i give it a week !” after luke told her he’s back with marissa
it’s the annual end of summer trip to tijuana. seth suddenly wants to go now that he actually has a shot with summer in a post-kiss world. ryan’s a little hesitant bc of the whole marissa situation but is eventually convinced. summer and marissa always go and luke is excited for the romance (?) in tijuana, ok bud.
however jimmy has to move out this weekend because of the divorce. he acts weird as fuck, convincing marissa to stay behind. but jimmy doesn’t want her to watch him move out so he hides the divorce and says “i can’t take care of the both of us”. boy shes like 17. this is ryan’s conversation with dawn in episode 3 all over again i swear. so now marissa is actually going but with seth and ryan… uh oh
in other news, sandy gets pitched by a private firm. hes very tempted to take the job because for whatever reason a progressive sandy feels emasculated by kirsten’s fat paycheck. Here, he reconnects with an old lawyer friend, rachel. they have uncomfy sexual tension that only gets worse in latter eps yay! speaking of, kirsten is helping paint jimmy’s bachelor pad and he kisses her in a hard to watch scene. kirsten handles it well and removes herself from the situation. ultimately, sandy takes the job to kirsten’s disappointment, and kirsten doesn’t tell sandy about the kiss
back to TJ, summer and seth argue so much that they crash the car and have to stay in a motel. we get ryan/marissa angst part 99 over ding-dongs and cheese sticks: “do you ever wonder why i came to the pool house to see you” “every day!” jeez guys. seth and summer somehow get into a “theres only one bed” trope despite there being two beds. shoreeee. as ryan and marissa return from the vending machine debacle, jimmy calls because now is supposedly the time to drop the divorce bomb, leaving marissa rightfully distraught. but she still decides to go to tijuana thanks to summer’s advice.
once in tijuana, the core four stumble upon luke and holly. its gotta suck being cheated on by whatever the fuck is going on here. i’d rather they just fuck like…
marissa is very upset, steals summer’s stepmother’s painkillers and overdoses in a shady bar. they actually did a good job filming that: the music and dizzy camera shots make it genuinely uncomfortable to watch. wish they didn’t include the unnecessary mexican stereotyping with the men there though. ryan finds marissa in an alley and we get a repeat of the into dust carrying scene. this is basically ryan’s savior complex wrapped up in one neat package. someone give marissa a damn break.
take a shot everytime someone says TJ and you’ll be as incoherent as marissa.
was not an OG watcher so its hard to believe people waited a week for the next episode after this ending
that range rover just got trashed at donny’s party and now the axle broke. she going through it
ryan and marissa conveniently waking up cuddling. righttttt
everyone sleeps in their regular clothes and summer in like near lingerie. diva!
this ep marks the exact moment i start believing in sethmer. they’re so cute
they did not even bother trying to make the tijuana set look real. it looks like you’re at disney world mexico epcot
ryan is all of us when sandy calls summer “hot stuff”
that’s all bye bye!! i promise to be active regularly for awhile so lemme know your thoughts x
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