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This is most obviously the theme of Angel and Stans story.
Stan starts off the episode going to the famed21 Clubin Manhattan to meet his new boss Matt.
He rolls up in his new Cadillac and his wife Patty is wearing a new ball gown.
Hes trying to achieve the same executive realness that everyone in the ball scene is going for as well.
Angel tells Stan that she makes just as much money and doesnt have to touch anyone.
That means Stan pays her rent, gives her money for clothes, and supports her full time.
And she wants a year-long lease or shes not giving up her lucrative gig.
I stand for nothing …
I can buy things I cant afford, which means theyre not really mine … Im a brand, a middle-class white guy, he says.
But you are who you are, even though the price you pay is being disinvited from the world.
He says he needs that in his life to keep going.
He gives him the raise as long as he gets the dirty details.
(As usual, Patty is the one who is setting her sights way too low.)
Girl, he must be really pissed.
Damon invites him to meet him at the ballet at 6:30 the next day.
Alright, this annoys me.
Why is Damon inviting Ricky to show up to the ballet almost two hours early?
Second of all, Damon has no money and is a poor student.
Hes so poor, its a big deal when his teacher invites him for free.
So where did he suddenly come up with the cash for two ballet tickets?
What is she going to think when Damon suddenly can afford box seats for ABT at Lincoln Center?
Im not so sure about this win, though.
(The scene was filmed both inside and outside ofJulius, the legendary gay bar in the village.)
She hopes that, one day, no gay establishment will bar people of color or trans people.
Why she doesnt enlist her children to flood the bar in protest is beyond me.
To get that access to money, everyone has to compromise just a little bit.
As weve seen, Elektra and Blanca are approaching life from two very different ways.
We see these two different types of people all over the show.
Someone needs to tell Ryan Murphy no nearly every single scene in this episode was too long.
(See: every episode ofThe Americans.)
However, neither ofPoses first two episodes have risen to the occasion.
