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written by Margaret Royal
Love, Lies and Voldemort
The Lianca Recaps
Monday, July 28th
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Previously on AMC: Bianca danced on a pool table at The Pit and got some unsavory attention that made her freak; the Three Ninjas (Aidan, Boyd, and Tad) bound and duct-taped a sleeveless Asshat and threw him in a dumpster, in one of the most HoYay!-riffic scenes ever to grace the TV.
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The Pit. All the scary people with tattoos (including a foreground lesbiterian looking person) are taunting Bianca and yelling at her to get off the pool table, and she's parrying and thrusting at them with a pool cue in suitably embarrassing fashion. Poor Binky is totally freaking out. She yells for them not to touch her and to stay back, and we go to commercials.
Ick. Bianca's starting to crumple now and looks like she's ready to burst into tears. Hello, Maggie to the rescue maybe 10 minutes ago? Pre-dancing? That would have been good. Maggie stands up and yells that she's got cold beers on the house, and that clears up the melee! Phew! Nothing says roadhouse patron like wanton cruelty matched only by an unquenchable thirst for cheap beer! Maggie tries to get Bianca off the table, but Binks says she's not afraid of "them" and won't let herself get hurt. Mags can tell that Binks is still on a wig in progress, so she claims to be afraid for herself, and that gets Binky's attention. Awwww. Bianca really should be a superhero or something. Team up with Lena to fight for justice. Binks's uniform could be her Vengeance '03 Dress from the Enchantment press conference. Maggie makes the perfect sidekick in that regard, come to think of it. Not as smart, not as cool, always finding ways to get into trouble. Sort of like Daphne on Scooby-Doo. Right, I should stop fantasizing and re-regard the storyline from hell. So anyway, Maggie again asks Bianca to "come down" (too bad she wasn't at the clinic the other day), and they skedaddle, but not before Mags tells the understandably riled Pit bartender to put the brewskis on her tab. The bar riff-raff think this is hilarious. Oh, AMC. Outside, Maggie asks for Bianca's keys, and Bianca demands to know that Maggie is okay and that "they" didn't hurt her. Then she weaves and lurches as Maggie says she's "never seen [Bianca] this drunk before." On Diet Coke and vodka? Eeeech. Binks says she has to go get back for her mom's wedding tomorrow.
The girls arrive at Maggie's darkened palatial dorm room. Bianca is falling all over the place and stressing about the wedding. Maggie reminds Binks that she called Erica for her on the car ride over. At some point in all this, she strokes Bianca's hair, and it reminds me that this is all a dirty bone that Frons and McTavish are throwing the BAMers for getting behind the rape storyline. Bad writing breeds bad writing. Anyway, Maggie tells Bianca she needs to rest so as not "to be spillin' your cookies all over Erica's dress tomorrow." Bianca giggles, but the idea makes her feel sick, and she tells Maggie it's "not funny." Hee. This reminds me that VH1 has been pimping American Wedding for some reason, and they showed the scene from American Pie in which Stiffler is trying to mack on some poor girl, played by Eden, and he drinks some beer that Thomas Ian Nicholas (is that really that guy's name?) jizzed in, and it makes him gag, and he ends up ralphing onto her dress and she's of course further humiliated by having to run through a crowded kitchen to get away. Wow, that was five years ago, wasn't it? Glossing over the obvious scapegoat/humiliation parallels with not just this scene but the whole fucking storyline, I'll just say that it would be kind of cool if Binks could ralph on one of Maggie's dresses, not while Maggie is in it, of course. It would be a huge improvement to her wardrobe. Anyway, there's some dumb BAM-kowtowing blabber about Bianca needing to "trust [Maggie]." To lead her to the bathroom? Seriously, it's supposed to be an anvillicious line, but they're talking about Binks being led to the bathroom so she can do the technicolor yawn. Eden is trying her damnedest to pull off the scene, but it's all just dumb. The anvils just make it more insulting.
Later, Binks is lying on her side on Maggie's bed in an oversized t-shirt and looking sleepy. Maggie asks if the shower helped. Binks says it did, and absently fingers the collar of the t-shirt as she thanks Maggie for it. (This is so a bone to the BAMers. Stupid dumb writing.) Bianca is on her way down from the earlier drunken, manic heights, and she looks resigned and guilty. "Maggie . . . I don't know why you put up with me tonight. I am such a mess. I am so sorry." Maggie sits down near Bianca's feet and tells her that there's no reason to apologize and that she cares about her and is worried. Bianca looks at her. Liz Hendrickson has already set the pitch of this exchange pretty high; there's a lot of strain in her voice. This is in pretty stark contrast to how low-key, almost zonked, Eden is playing the scene. Maggie rests her hand on Bianca's leg. She says, "I know something is terribly wrong with you and I just don't know what it is and I need you to tell me; can you tell me, please?" Binks is crying a little bit, and some tears roll down her nose. Oh, poor B. "I've never seen you drink like that," Maggie says. "You scared me tonight. The way you threatened those guys . . . you're not that type of person, you're just not like that." Bianca says that she's scared. Maggie wants to know what happened that is making her scared. "I didn't want it to happen again," says Binks. Her eyes are closed, and she looks as though she's not really there. Exasperated, Maggie asks, "You didn't want what to happen again?" And then it's out there: "Rape." Binks is falling asleep. Maggie is stunned. Commercials.
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Next on AMC: It's a new day! Maggie tells Bianca she needs to talk about the rape. |
Bianca starts, as if from half-sleep. "Maggie?" "Yeah, I'm right here." Bianca wants her to "make sure that he doesn't come." Maggie is all, "what?" "He always comes when I sleep," Bianca says. Maggie climbs across the bed and spoons with Bianca. She tells her very firmly to go to sleep, and that she's safe, and that she won't let "him" come.
To be continued.
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