Feel Good Episode 2
Welcome back for episode 2!!!
So Mae is having abandonment issues and George is off to a wedding and Mae is panicking because George is going away and it’s the first time they’re going to be away from each other. Damn. The thing is is that George hasn’t told her friends that she’s dating a girl so that kinda awkward and stressy for Mae.
So this is a quintessential English country wedding and its pretty clear that all of George’s friends are assholes. Literally. Its like a shit pastiche of Made in Chelsea. Not that MIC was any good in the first place. Oh damn George’s mum is an interesting lady. Likes to talk about divorce. And Mae will not stop texting/calling. Needy much. I kinda feel bad for the both of them, yah know?
‘I Cant believe you said I was PPI’ is probably one of the more iconic lines Mae has said over the course of this television show.
I love Maggie, Mae’s sponsor. She’s a lot. Clearly very much a big ol’ mess. But the best kind of mess. And what the heck is all this stuff about grapes? Interesting thought though, addicts fixate on things so they have to mix it up every now and then.
George is bored at the wedding and she’s trying to explain something about love to the wedding photographer like, ‘love should sit beside your life like a lamp’. You read that right chaps: A Lamp.
Wait. Maggie has a daughter?!?!?! And her daughter doesn’t want to see Maggie? Ouch. Harsh. And her daughter doesn’t trust her and doesn’t believe that she’s good despite Mae saying that she is good and has been helping Mae a lot and that Maggie’s daughter should reconsider. Also Mae is kinda mad that Maggie didn’t tell her about her daughter because Mae wanted help with handling life after addiction. But how is she supposed to do that if her ‘life raft is full of holes’.
Oh back to George. But not George because Binky is getting married. And this guy Hugh proposed at… someone else’s wedding?!?!? Rude. So it looks like George needs a bit of TLC.
Umm but Mae is locked out and now her phone is ringing and the only person who would be calling is George and Mae starts panicking and, oh look at that. She’s lost her shoe.
But back to George and, she just needs a hug and she wants to talk to Mae because Mae is great. She loves Mae. But Mae isn’t answering the damn phone so she calls Phil. Who is weird. Cool but weird. We like Phil. He just wants a friend. And a hug.
But Mae is panicking so she goes to see her boss and asks for money but her boss won’t give her any and now they’re fighting… its a mess. Oh the lengths people will go to for a hit. But Phil is here and he tells Mae’s boos that Mae had a coke problem so he shouldn’t be doing coke around her. You know. But we like Phil. A lot. He’s a good egg, we also find out that George could’ve taken a plus one but didn’t (ouch). But I don’t get the story about seeds…. I guess that’s just …Phil?
Ooo another Lisa Kudrow moment. Because we love Lisa Kudrow. She’s great. But apparently there no such thing as ‘Healthy space’… whaaaat?. I love how brutally honest Mae’s mother is, like she doesn’t hold back for the sake of politeness. Also I love how poetic their conversations end up being ‘I am a hungry empty ghost’ is what Mae says. Honestly sounds like a lyric from an early 2000’s Fall Out Boy song.
And we’re back with the meetings, and Mae bravely says that addicts just find new addictions. It might be lying, making really weird eggs (honestly what is it with the eggs?) or you have this incredibly obnoxious guy here who is talking about how much money he is now making. Ugh. I must say the look at swapping addictions is pretty smart and although everyone is in uproar, Maggie swoops in and saves the day with her stalking story about her daughter ‘Lava’. (She named her high) but, she’s an addict.
Ah, George. Okay. Umm wow her mother is really REALLY cynical. So was her mother ever happy? George is happy. That’s right, she’s happy and now she can’t wait to get home to Mae because she really really loves Mae and would like to marry her and everything! Oh wait that was a dream scenario. crap. The reality is… oh for crying out loud Phil! Why does he have to interrupt what looks like a super poignant and intimate moment between the two. Goddamnit Phil!. This is going to be a recurring theme isn’t it?…. we still like Phil.