Loveday Writing

Per last week, I’ll be reviewing this episode character by character.

Charlie, Matt and Ivy—The majority of the episode focused on them so I’ll start the review on them. Despite Charlie giving Carlito two more weeks to stay, he ups and leaves early in the morning but not before being caught in the act by Matt. After this the majority of the episode focuses on Charlie and Matt (but mostly Charlie) dealing with Ivy’s acting out—first by stealing a ute and driving off after Charlie takes Ivy with her to school, when she tries to leave town on a bus, and later when she makes a cake filled with pot for Matt and Charlie. This subplot provided more of an insight into Charlie and Carlito’s obviously strained and one-sided relationship as Charlie admits to Matt that she’s helping Ivy as she sees a lot of herself in her. Charlie’s choice to finally stand up to him at the end of the episode over the phone was satisfying.