Written by Gregg Araki & Karley Sciortino
Directed by Gregg Araki
Jethro: "Are you okay, Mommy?"
Carly: "Yes, Mommy's okay."
Well, after what we've seen with those two in previous episodes, that scene wasn't too much of a shocker. Neither is the fact that Carly has a lot of anger issues waiting to truly boil over as this episode was a series of mixed fortunes for her.
On the negative side first - Jethro might not be setting the acting world alight but unlike Carly, at least he's bagging TV gigs even if those gigs are mainly him playing a corpse, each and every single time. Carly on the other hand just managed to herself dropped from an agent too flaky to even remember her name while her boyfriend managed to bag a cable miniseries with Benedict Cumberbatch.
I am surprised with the amount of crap that Jethro will tolerate from Carly while at the same time, it's impressive that he does seem to actually care for her even if he probably knows that she treats him like crap. As for the other part of the fortunes, at least Carly's web series unimaginatively titled Sluts has shaped up a little better with Ulysses going into director mode as well.
Speaking of Ulysses - at least we're back onto the alien plot as a dream encounter with the homeless guy got Uly to go to Reddit of all place to find out about the W sign with lightning bolts. It also resulted in his post being deleted because even Reddit have limits on what one can post on their conspiracy subforum.
The last scene did see Ulysses at his place of work (nope, the show hadn't forgot about that) with an encounter with the homeless guy that ended on an embarrassing note but between cryptic dreams and Severine asking both the twin guys if any mystery cars were following them of late, at least this episode seemed to make a tiny advance towards the main plot.
- Carly gave pee guy her phone number but not Leif, though I'm sure we'll see him again. Ulysses mentioned enjoying going down on women as well.
- Ford didn't take Ulysses's advice about Otto and Barnabus well at all. Severine also enjoyed watching a couple having sex in the building opposite to her workplace.
- Carly also got a new roommate named Emily while a guy she filmed a scene with for her web series also bagged a mystery project as well.
- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.
She's Lost Control was a bit of an improvement from the previous episode. While the alien plot does need to step up a gear, it would also be nice to have at least one person actually believe what Ulysses is saying and I do hope him and Ford patch things up next episode.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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