Loveday Writing

June reveals that she’s spent most of her life travelling, firstly through Europe and then Australia with the van she arrived in. Denise calls her out for leaving her and Easton as kids without saying goodbye, whereas Easton is more upset that June isn’t aware he’s famous, and Brett awkwardly interjects with weather updates from his phone. Brett and Harry end up making a hasty exit to the kitchen to make some kind of dinner from the pears, sardines, breadcrumbs and eggs they find. Whilst all of this is going on, Margot keeps sexting Easton to tempt him out of his sex strike.

Later, when Brett discovers that he’s burnt the pears he was cooking, everyone sits out on the front steps where June reveals that she wanted to return home and tried to contact Denise and Easton several times but Jim wouldn’t let her come back. Easton doesn’t believe her and June tells him to ask Jim himself, this leads to the family having a séance to contact Jim, led by June.

Even though Easton points out how silly the séance is, apparently they do manage to make contact with Jim’s spirit who tells them to ‘sod off’. This leads to a fight between them all, with Diana revealing she never wanted to go to London. When June leaves the room to cleanse the house of Jim’s spirit, Easton tells everyone he’s not convinced that she’s really June, and suggests they look for proof that she’s a con woman while Brett distracts her. While Harry and Diana search June’s van, Diana finds her driver’s licence.

Easton, Denise, Diana, and Harry confront June over her driver’s licence having the name Njorthrbiartr on it. June reveals that it’s a Norse name she was given at a commune she was a part of, and when Easton tells her she doesn’t know anything about them, she recalls a bite mark Easton has on his leg that he got from a dog as a child, and a birthmark of Denise’s bum cheek. June then tells them goodnight and informs them she’ll crash in the main bedroom (now Brett and Denise’s bedroom) where she proceeds to take down a photo of Brett, Denise and Diana, and replace it with a wall hanging of her own.

Overall I felt that this was a weak episode. While I was glad that June did make an appearance (no pun intended) and that her disappearance from the family was addressed, I felt that it took a silly turn with the séance, especially with the family (including Easton) going along with it. While I felt that the possibility of her being a con woman was plausible, I appreciated that this wasn’t the outcome. I’m looking forward to seeing where the writers take June as a character in the remaining three episodes of the season.

Stray Observations:

-Margot didn’t appear in this episode.

-The soup kitchen wasn’t a setting in this episode.

-Brett apparently accidentally ordered 10 punnets of pears instead of 10 pears when he shopped online.

-Brett checks the house for any fires wearing a welder’s mask instead of a gas mask.

-Apparently most of the photos around the house are of Jim and the animals he shot, which begs the questions of why he would want to take photos of himself with these animals, who took them, and if he took them, how did manage to do so? A camera with a self-timer perhaps?

Best one liners and interactions:

• “Why is it so strange, we love…we like each other, don’t we?” (Easton to June about the living situation and then to the rest of the family)
• “If you were a decent mum, you would have followed my career and watched my TV shows.” “And…not walked out on you guys.” “Yeah that’s on the list.” (Easton to June, then Diana to Easton, then Easton)
• “I actually missed the smell of grease and motor oil.” “I’ll happily point you in the direction of the nearest petrol station.” (June-Easton on Jim’s garage)
• “Jim could barely communicate when he was alive, good luck getting dead Jim to make any sense.” (Easton on the séance)
• “I know I don’t clean, pay rent, or contribute in any way at all, but I didn’t realise you wanted me to leave.” (Easton to Denise)
• “Let’s go kill Jim, I mean, ‘evil Jim’.” (Brett to June)