“Stop sitting on me like an egg. I’m not an egg.”
More masterful plotting and character this episode as Elsa and Doug confront the parents of Arlington, Sam’s bully. It’s a nuanced scene, with both sets of parents being old friends until the friends couldn’t be bothered with Sam’s autism as a child. Things go well until it becomes clear that they still have no appreciation at all that Sam’s autism was not a childhood phase. Most significantly, I think, this enables Elsa and Doug to bond once again.
Casey, too, while ignoring Graham’s texts, bonds even more with new best friend Izzy but her boyfriend Nate makes a pass at her, which she firmly rejects- but what to do now? Should she tell Izzy? And why on Earth should this be her responsibility?
The sweetest scene, though, is Paige being unable to be angry at an apologetic Sam- and her request for him to be with her at the graduation lock-in thingy, which sounds terrifying, leads him to try and stay at Zahid’s as practice. This doesn’t go well, as spending a night at a police station isn’t usually seen as a proper sleepover, but it’s nice to see Zahid get some proper development as someone who has all ambition knocked out of him by a teacher calling him a “loser”- and he finally applies to nursing school. He’d be very good as a nurse.
This is all superb. I think now I can confidently predict that Elsa and Doug will get back together, and so will Sam and Paige, but I think Casey may have trouble ahead.
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