How to Stay Married—Season 2, Episode 5
This episode was all about the internet.
This episode kicks off with Chloe expressing frustration at the internet cutting in and out, leaving her unable to watch Terry’s interview on a morning show about his walking. Em also expresses her frustration by informing Greg she has been unable to download important work emails. Greg tells them that he has managed to get an NBN technician to come out and he has to stay home all day to wait for them to show up.
However Greg abandons this task when Brad informs him of an Aldi special buy he can’t refuse—an electric blanket.
Greg manages to get the blanket, however problems arise for both him and Em when he helps a trolley man control his trolleys, as his own trolley rolls down the car park, hitting another car and he drops his phone, which is subsequently run over.
While Chloe is looking forward to an excursion at the aquarium, she later finds out that due to their internet issues, neither Em nor Greg have signed the online permission slip. Due to the owner of the car trying to blackmail Greg into fixing his ute, Greg is stuck at Aldi with the owner and the trolley man watching the surveillance footage of the incident. Greg uses the trolley man’s phone to contact Sophie and ask her to go home at lunch to meet the technician.
While all of this is going on, Em is in a meeting to decide on a cover for her book, with her phone constantly going off. Things come to a head when Chloe vomits on a school receptionist and Sophie informs Em that Greg is at Aldi.
After Em takes Chloe home, Greg comes home himself where she argues with him about the whole day. They hear a knock at the door and think it’s the NBN technician, only to discover the man at the door was a Jehovah’s Witness.
On a smaller note, Sophie has a huge pimple on her nose throughout the episode, which Lindsay tries to help cover up with make-up, only to be caught by a teacher. She is worried about what Ben will think of it, only to discover him hooking up with another girl at school.
Overall I felt this episode was as mediocre as the previous episode as the outcome was predictable. However I appreciated the continuation of the book story arc and progression of the “Cool Ben” subplot.
Best one liners and interactions:
- “I’m completely socially irrelevant, I might as well be on MySpace.” (Sophie to Greg)
- “Em’s feet are so cold at night and then she puts them on mine like a Dementor.” (Greg to Brad)
- “This is a place of learning not casting for Married at First Sight.” (A teacher to Sophie on her make-up)
- “I’d rather motorboat Boris Johnson’s back fat than have our name associated with that cover.” (Audrey to Em)
- “But Mummy, my heart’s broken!” (Chloe to Em)
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