Snap to a department store where Karma has taken Amy to torture her to death. I mean “where Karma has taken Amy to watch her try on lingerie.”
HERE I AM TO TEASE THE FUCK OUT OF YOU
Karma: “Does this say virgin, skank or the perfect blend of both?”
Amy: “Okay this just got very real, you’re wearing lingerie.”
Karma says it’s okay if Amy wants to back out, but Amy insists she’s totally still in. Then Karma says they should probably rehearse. Amy looks like she’d probably rather rehearse for the Spoon River Anthology than this situation.
Be honest, doesn’t this remind you of the dress I wore to our very first Shedonism
Oh yeah… and it looked a lot better on the floor
In the dance studio, Lauren and Shane dance around while Pablo talks about the matador and Lauren tells Shane that Pablo is too good for him.
The final act. Your final dance! You’ve tasted your dream. Touched it! Only to have it crushed. Your heart is broken. Wounded! Your life force fading. The blood drips. The black swan stole your love!
Then Lauren shows off her ridiculous costume and Shane complains that he doesn’t get enough time to shine or a ridiculous costume.
Back at Karma’s house, Amy’s leaving Shane a voicemail about how she’s flipping out about rehearsal because blocking is hard, but Shane’s not picking up the phone! Then Karma shows up in her trenchoat and it turns out Amy’s also wearing a trenchcoat. It’s very Inspector Gadget Chic.
But what if it doesn’t rain, won’t we feel silly wearing these coats
Karma’s got her go-go-gadget choreography all planned out. Like Liam will be here, and then Amy will be there, and then Amy has to stop making jokes because they have to be very convincing lesbian lovers and lesbians NEVER make jokes during sex NOT EVER. The situation will open with Karma undoing Amy’s coat in a manner Karma describes as “sexy like.”
Wow this is the most boring game of tug-of-war ever
Removing the coat reveals Amy in her flannel boxer shorts and a white tank top, which I personally consider to be totally adorbs but seems to slightly surprise Karma.
Amy: “This seemed authentic.”
What, like I’m the first person to wear boxer shorts over my Rodeo
Amy awkwardly undoes Karma’s coat as Karma gives her sexy eyes. Beneath the coat is intense black lingerie. Amy likes what she sees and also does not want anyone to know that she likes what she sees, including maybe herself. Karma fixes Amy’s hair, smiles —
Karma: “Mmmm. You smell yummy.”
Amy: “I do?”
Karma: “Chinese food?”
Amy: “Oh, I had moo shoo pork for lunch.”
There, now you look like my favorite pet pony
Then Amy’s like, “There’s nothing left to do but kiss!” and then disappoints all of us playing along here at home by smashing her hand over Amy’s face and fake-kissing her.
DON’T TELL ANYONE WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER YOU BITCH
Karma’s so excitant to lose her V-card and she says she wishes Amy could be there for the big event, which honestly is a super-gay and also weird thing to say? Regardless, Amy’s a bit confused because she thought this was a threesome, so in fact she was intending to “be there,” but Karma explains that she’d assumed Amy would only be there at first and then she would say like, “oh my g-d something terrible happened!” and then leave. Amy tries to play it cool, but she’s clearly disappointed.
Hahahaha no of course I read all of “Infinite Jest” best book EVER! Totes shorter than it looks!
Cut to Amy calling Shane in a hot panic, insisting that if there were signs to be read in this situation, the sign Karma is holding up probs says STOP. Then! Amy has a breakthrough while leaving a voicemail:
Amy: “I’m sure if you were here you’d tell me to run right through [the stop sign] because this is my last chance to see if her and I will ever be more than best friends. And I’d roll my eyes and realize…” [has a moment].. “you’re right! It’s time I take my destiny into my own hands. If Karma expects me to leave then I have to get her to want me to stay. Shane thank you! Wherever you are!”
I ordered xanax off the internet ONCE you guys, just ONCE, and it wasn’t even real xanax, and I’m not making that same mistake twice so PLEASE stop calling me
I am REALLY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THIS MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
Shane is at the Steakhorn Dance Competition wearing a ridiculous outfit. Pablo says it looks matadorable, but Lauren’s pissed and stomps off in a fury.
Do I make you wanna shoop?
Pablo tells Shane that the move to Austin has been really hard on Lauren and that this dance is ALL SHE HAS LEFT IN THE WORLD. Besides white cis heterosexual privilege of course.
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Downside to A-Camp: Now there are TWO WHOLE EPISODES of this show I haven’t watched yet
“Well, we’re lesbians. Our word is our bond.” That shit killed me.
On another note,from this moment forward I will live my life anticipating the next recap and then the next one then the next one you get the point.
THAT BRA, THO. Clearly, Amy read this article from Bra Week and thought it spoke to her tomboy femme style.
OMG WE HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT
GUYS THAT BRA IS THE SAME ONE THAT EMILY WORE IN PLL!!! Because the two shows have the same costume designer!
My girlfriend also wears this bra. :)
“Amy’s leaving Shane a voicemail about how she’s flipping out about rehearsal because blocking is hard.”
As someone in the theater world, this line is the best. Pretty sure this happens on the reg at rehearsals.
Amy’s facial expressions are perfect. I LOLed a lot at this episode and this recap. I wish episodes are longer though.
I wish they were longer too! If The Foster can be an hour long, I’m pretty sure this can be (minus a shit ton of drama).
So happy that Amy left her tall socks and boots on with her lingerie. Damn girl. Damn.
And on a less objectifying note, everyone was super precious this week and I’m so nervous for the tenuous future of Karmy.
“Shane gives Pablo a quick kiss and dashes off into the sunset as tango music plays in the glorious sun over the earth and sea.”
Hahahaha.
NO: all the gross shit the bros said in this episode
YES: Amy in that badass sexy lingerie/ white tank and boxers
i will probably never watch this show (unless it ends up on netflix), but i these recaps are just the best and i look forward to them more than i look forward to actually watching most shows.
If accessibility is the issue, some episodes are available on the MTV site (may only be in the US, however).
I know now the one gift to offer to my girl who’ll be really to my benefit : that lingerie==> LIBIDO ON
In the teaser for next week, Karma says she was jealous, but I really want more specifics…because wouldn’t it be great if she was jealous that Liam was kissing Amy since she suddenly realized SHE wanted to kiss Amy?!?! Probably not gonna happen since this show has been on for less than one season and that would leave it with nowhere to go, but still, a girl can dream…
I want to be those boxer shorts and tank top! amy manages to be so sweet and so sexy all at the same time. karma? karma’s a bitch.
“To be fair, every girl-boy-girl threesome situation I’ve participated in did eventually turn into a girl-girl twosome situation. Although “eventually” sometimes means like, “a year later.” But also sometimes “eventually” meant “that very same night.”
:D RIESE! OH MY GOD! elaborate?…
I’m more interested to know more about your epic threesome-twosome story than the episode itself.
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I feel like it might have gone better if Liam had brought the calamari.
I love this shooooowwwww. Karma’s beautifully confused little face makes me love her. She’s so so confused now, poor baby. And I love that Amy has come into her own and is confident and taking charge of the situation. She knows how she feels about Karma, she’s accepted it, and she’s willing to take a risk to see if Karma might feel the same way.
How an MTV show with a really stupid/offensive-sounding premise has turned out to be such a gem I’ll never understand, but I’m really glad it is what it is.
Amy was so incredibly sexy and sweetly caring with Karma during the threesome scene!
I feel like this episode was actually the most heartbreaking because of Amy’s emotional rollercoaster with Karma. Like, going from her having to help Karma pick out lingerie and seeing that genuine attraction, to having her little gay dream quashed was very poignant this episode.
And then that ending just slayed me. I’m pretty sure Karma will actually be jealous about Liam kissing Amy but will repress it and lash out at Amy for kissing Liam.
Notes on the bros: Bro #1 was Lauren’s boyfriend, and Bro #2 IS a fucking idiot if he thinks Beckham is the best soccer player of all time. It was also uncharacteristic of Liam to receive tips for sex but the whole thing was awful and gross so whatever let them all burn together.
I completely agree with your prediction about Karma’s reaction. I think she might be bi, so I think she will be jealous of Liam for kissing someone else and Amy for kissing someone else and for Liam/Amy kissing each other, but she will only express her jealousy at first about Liam and not Amy.
I registered just so I could tell you how much I love your recaps :)
aw thank you!!!
The captions this week – perfection.
The kissing scene gave me so many feels
I had so many butterflies in my stomach, and my no-no parts were screaming YES-YES!
I had butterflies in my no-no parts and my stomach was screaming “Feed me tacos already!”
^ comment award
Clearly those kids have never watched Gossip Girl or been graced with the wisdom of Blair Waldorf, because otherwise they would have known the single most important rule about having a threesome: The third person is always a stranger!
I was already loving Amy and Karma’s sexual tension in their undress rehearsal scene (haha, get it?). But then that last scene went and stole all of my Karmy feelings!
That last scene changes everything! It was obvious to me by the end of it that Karma also has feelings for Amy. All of those emotion-laden looks between the two of them. The multiple passionate kisses. The fact that Karma and Amy said the same “Wow.” “I know.” that they said during their first kiss. Except this time Karma was the one flustered and feeling the attraction for the first time, and Amy was the one leading and confident about her feelings.
What if everything is different than it first appeared? What if this whole time Karma has had feelings for Amy too? Feelings that she has been denying and shoving, keeping everything inside without realizing it because she’s not emotionally ready to recognize it and deal with it yet. So she became completely consumed with her genuine feelings for Liam to help her ignore any of her unwanted feelings for Amy. Because not everyone is able to start accepting their sexuality as quickly as Amy has been doing. For some people, it’s a long internal struggle. It could explain a lot of the conflicting comments that Karma has made. It could also help make sense of her character’s motivations, which so far have seemed pretty shallow and selfish.
“The fact that Karma and Amy said the same “Wow.” “I know.” that they said during their first kiss. Except this time Karma was the one flustered and feeling the attraction for the first time, and Amy was the one leading and confident about her feelings.”
Oooooh, excellent plot development having them mirror the initial scene!! I didn’t even pick up on that.
This is exactly what I thought!!!! After Karma didn’t “go all the way” with Liam in the car, I just assumed that MTV was going to flip it on us and have Karma be the one “faking it.” How i see it… Karma is the only one “faking” (read: denying) emotions/deeper connections, while Amy has accepted her feelings and is trying to navigate through them.
I was going to politely and constructively rant about how this episode is disappointing to me, because it is making the concept of a “threesome” look totally sketchy, and because the notion of “consent” is really blurred here, and because this is hypersexualising bisexual/gay girls in a “seen 100 times before” way and that is totally upsetting…
But then I scrolled past pics of Amy in that black underwear. Fuck, this show is great!
As much as I love Amy (dear g-d she is wonderful), I was a little concerned about her “making” Karma want her to stay. The line was getting a bit blurry. I totally understood where Amy was coming from, I just didn’t want that whole dynamic to enter the show.
Yes! I agree. I do realise Amy actively consented to the threeway verbally two or three times, which is technically consent, but both girls were getting into a threeway for the wrong reasons (like, way wrong!) and it bugged me.
Not my best episode. That black lingerie though.
So I was with this “straight” girl a while back (oops), and the first time we had sex, she was like “woah.” And I was like “I know!” Seriously, this show has made my feelings crawl on out of wherever they were buried like some kind of Alison DiLaurentis :p
The end of the season…. we will cut to Karma in her bedroom looking down on her desk staring at two pictures: one of Liam the other, Amy. The camera will zoom in on her face and it will be contorted and then she’ll turn both pictures over only to cut the night lamp off and get in the bed leaving us to wonder until the next season begins.
Watch.
I still hate this show and the sexualization of them/their relationship but that lingerie (Marlies Dekkers?!) is awesome.
I didn’t like the fact that Amy kissed Liam back and looked like she’s into it, despite Shane’s earlier words that she wouldn’t have to touch him if she didn’t want to. She reciprocated his advances, nothing suggested in the slightest that she’s off-put by it, quite the contrary, she even wrapped her hand around him.
I fear that the exact reason why she did it won’t be addressed at all in next episodes, and nothing will be resolved when it comes to Amy’s sexuality at the end of the season. Which most likely would mean that there will be a guy for her next season (even if at the very end she would end up with Karma).
So, it would be show about lesbians without any lesbian representation. Plus, if Amy turns out to be bisexual after all, then apparently the show wants to imply that she’s the one that Liam “conquered” (reference to Liam’s actor’s words from interview: “I conquered the lesbian. She’s mine”), considering she was not into kiss with Oliver before.
I’m possibly projecting based on my experiences many many many moons ago, but I feel like Amy went ahead and kissed Liam back to overcompensate — to her, kissing Liam was a totally emotionless act, a duty she had to perform in order to ensure Karma didn’t suspect Amy was a lesbian or that Amy wasn’t totally down with the threesome about to ensue. It also ensured that she’d be allowed to stay — if Liam wanted to kiss her too, she wouldn’t have to fake food poisoning and leave the room, missing a chance to kiss Karma again.
It also struck me as a very My So-Called Life’s Rayanne Graff/Jordan Catalano & The L Word’s Alice/Lara situation.
It could be an explanation (though I must point out that Amy wouldn have to not think clearly if she thought that making out with Liam would make Karma want her to stay, considering the fact she basically told her she wants him all for herself, but that’s possible), but it’s personal interpretation.
As I checked, there are many different interpretations of that scene, including ones from people who see in it a proof that Amy’s bisexual or that “sexuality is fluid” (as always, only when it comes to queer women apparently).
I fear it will be left for personal interpretations, that the show itself won’t explain anything, that Amy won’t directly address why she behaved like she behaved.
If that’s the case, I’m sure Amy won’t come out as anything at the end of the season. And honestly, I don’t see any reason for prolonging her state of confusion about her sexuality for two seasons other than at best, treading waters – to check out audience’s response (so, if audience didn’t want Amy as a lesbian, but wanted her for example with Oliver, that’s who Amy would be next season). But I can’t say I respect people who would do such a thing, because it means it’s just cold calculated exploitation, so even if Amy would quickly turn out to be lesbian next season, she would probably still go through the usual trope of “lesbian sleeping with a man”, since for some reason this stuff seems to be actively encouraged by the networks (in NBC Dracula the victorian lesbian character who didn’t understand her sexuality and was talked into sleeping with a guy, during the execution of the episode in which, as it has been written in script, she was meant to look like she was traumatized by the sex, ended up looking like she enjoyed it very much and even had strong orgasm – show’s creator himself explained that was what happened and that it has been done against his and writers’ intentions).
I could be wrong, but have to mention that I actually predicted that in episode 4 when she was supposed to find out if she’s into girls she will end as “she’s only gay for her” for now. So with such premise, they can do whatever they want with her sexuality in the future.
And hearing about threesome, I predicted it won’t work out, but during it there will be something to insinuate that maybe Amy doesn’t so totally dislike sexual contact with men, though it will be ambiguous.
I’m also really curious if they address in next episode, after the school found out about the threesome, the fact they’re supposed to be lesbians and wanted to have sex with a man. Because till now both of them kissed men in public and no one found it weird.
Not to mention that I’m stil waiting for Liam ever being called out for wanting to “conquer” lesbian.
Those are really damaging stereotypes about lesbian sexuality – that “we’re all about teh feelings, but for real sex a man is needed”, that we’re not ‘really’ gay, like gay men (who, as TV shows, would never touch a woman in sexual way without feeling revulsion), that we don’t mind d*ck from time to time, and this show intentionally or not refers to it, but I haven’t seen till now these myths being really called out and ridiculed.
Sorry to bring that to you guys, but there is sneak peak from next episode showing the discussion of Amy and Shane about that whole kiss situation, and it’s even worse than I predicted. Amy describes kissing Liam in very ambiguous way, making it look like it was quite nice, just that it paled compared to kiss with Karma (but hey, she’s in love with her, right?).
So yeah, they made guy who wants to “conquer” lesbian be the first man she enjoyed kissing at all. Just great.
Freshman year of college, my ex-BFF did to me basically the EXACT THING that Karma does to Amy (“let’s make out to impress the boys at this party, it’s cool cos neither of us are actually gay”) and it fucked up my baby dyke self so bad. I relate to Amy so much.
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