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The episode starts off right where it should, with Angel and Pattys confrontation.
Angel starts by saying, I dont know what to say.
Girl, you should have said plenty already.
I want to see what happenedbeforethey got to the diner?
And then they had to walk there.
I want to see that walk.
Did they make small talk?
I love your jacket.
How was the drive in from New Jersey?
Was there a lot of traffic?
Great weather were having.
How about them Mets?
Stan and I talk about them after we fuck.
I mean, the possibilities are endless!
First the two women are joined by what they have in common.
She felt like a doll who was only of value when Stan wanted to play with her.
When Angel explains that shes a transsexual, Patty doesnt believe her and asks to see Angels genitals.
Now the women are divided by their difference.
If you really want to know who I am, that is the last place you should look.
While Patty showed some guts approaching Angel, she was a chicken when dealing with everything else.
Then she goes to a psychiatrist to talk about Stan and his affair.
All of this happens without confronting him or asking for an explanation.
When she finally works up the courage to do that, its at an ambush psychiatrist visit.
Patty finally asks Stan what is going on.
She doesnt even mind that he cheated just why he cheated with that person.
Maybe he just saw her as a woman, much like Patty did when she first met Angel?
Matt essentially cleans Stans clock and says to him, The guy youre pretending to be doesnt exist.
Isnt that true of everyone on this show?
Isnt that what chasing realness is all about?
Everyone is trying to turn the illusion of their lives into the reality.
Now that Patty dumped Stan, he shows up at Peep World back into Angels booth.
Where does that leave them now?
Did Stan get to keep his job after that outburst?
Why all the damn cliffhangers,Pose?
You knew this story would be important because they trotted out Sandra Bernhard to play Nurse Judy.
(Fun fact: Nurse Judy is actually Nurse Jackies mother.)
He decides hell do that by staging a little cabaret performance.
Luckily Blanca shows up to do a duet with him on Home from the musicalThe Wiz.
Clearly that was not Blancas real singing voice, right?
Not even onGleewould they do full songs and they certainly never did them back-to-back.
He does just that and stops playing Love is the Message on repeat at every ball.
Everyone is very relieved, but I wish they knew the reason why he was obsessed with it.
He tells Kostas its because they danced to it all summer in 1980, before the HIV academic started.
Theyll never that feeling, that you’ve got the option to love without dying.
Girl, that is some profound stuff behind that one song.
I have a feeling were going to see Darius around again.
After all, if we learned anything this episode, its that love is the message.
