Loveday Writing

Greg surfs the net with Sophie to look for work from home opportunities and comes across the TurboMax mixer, a cooking mixer of some kind. When he signs up for it, Sophie tries to warn him it’s a pyramid scheme but doesn’t listen, and an old colleague of his, Leanne, shows up with a TurboMax mixer for him to promote and units to sell, and he has to pay $3,000 upfront for the units.

Greg spends most of the day learning about the TurboMax mixer, and organising and holding a party to sell units. While he gets a good amount of attendees from his neighbours, they leave as soon as he tells them that it’s not associated with the Thermomix nor has it been featured on Masterchef. Greg keeps the party going to try and sell them to Nadia, who has made it clear she’s wealthy. While his presentation fails as he hasn’t cleaned the TurboMax mixer between cooking meals, Nadia buys the units as the Thermomix is banned in Russia, so she’ll make a profit off the TurboMax. However Greg doesn’t get the extra money as Em blocked his purchase of the units from Leanne as her bank alerted her to the transaction and technically wasn’t employed by the company.

Overall I found his subplot too ridiculous and unrealistic to be able to enjoy.

Meanwhile Chloe goes to work with Em as part of her school’s curricular day. Em tries to take care of Chloe without her boss noticing by asking Chloe to play with an iPad under her desk, however Chloe manages to escape without Em knowing. Em frantically tries to find her, even coming across her name written in sugar on a bench, only to eventually discover that she is in her boss, Audrey’s, office.

While Audrey is angry at first at Chloe being around, Chloe intrigues Audrey enough for her to have a chat where Chloe tells Audrey what Em thinks of her. Em comes into Audrey’s office to get Chloe and goes on a rant as to why they don’t have the money to go on a cruise and Greg promising they would. Audrey offers Em a writing contract based on her rant, a book called “My Shit Husband: Volumes 1-7“. Em is conflicted about it as a writing contract makes her dreams come true but it is at Greg’s expense. However Em ends up signing the contract after having a fight with Greg, which ends when he says he doesn’t need her permission to do what he wants. When Em comes home, she ends up feeling guilty when Greg apologises and organises a romantic dinner for her.

The episode ends with Nadia packing the TurboMax mixers she purchased in the back of a van.

Overall I only found this episode half-enjoyable, meaning I only enjoyed the Em subplot but not the Greg subplot. Em’s subplot provided the episode’s best one liners, hilarious interactions between Chloe and Audrey and a possible story arc for the rest of the season with Em’s writing contract. I didn’t enjoy Greg’s subplot as I felt it was unrealistic and over-the-top.

Stray Observations:

-The latest book Em is reading or rather listening to is Calm the Fuck Down and Write a Book.

-Sophie has flat feet.

-According to Ravi, he and Greg are BFFs on Facebook.

-Terry is still on his walk, which is shown when he is video calling during Greg’s TurboMax mixer party.

Best one liners and interactions:

• “I spoil you, you leave wallet at home.” “I’m one step ahead of you, I don’t even know where it is.” (Nadia-Brad on going shopping)
• “Can do Mummaroo!” (Chloe to Em when Em asks her to stay under her desk)
• “Too deep, too cute, get me a bucket, ergh get me another bucket!” (Audrey to Em describing the manuscripts Em shortlisted for publishing)
• “I should hate it intensely, but not so much that I don’t want to publish it. Think the ‘trials of a modern woman and the price of having it all’, that makes me sick, which might be perfect.” (Audrey to Em on what kind of manuscript she’s looking for)
• “Hello Mama’s Boss, I’ve been expecting you!” (Chloe to Audrey, doing a chair reveal)
• “Whose spawn is this and why isn’t it in school or a factory!?” (Audrey to her staff on Chloe in her chair)
• “Rules are great, it’s the children I don’t like.” “Why don’t you like children?” “It’s all take and no give, they’re just so needy.” (Chloe-Audrey-Chloe on why Chloe doesn’t like school)
• “Talk about the daily grind, these one-day weeks are killing me!” (Chloe to Greg on her day at work with Em)