Loveday Writing

June, Easton, Diana and Harry party on until 3am, getting drunk with Brett and Denise watching from inside the house. With Brett complaining about June taking over their lives. The next morning, Denise tells Diana that she wants to spend the day with her due to her impending return to London. Margot comes by the house and takes Easton to her delivery of imperfect vegies from the Urailda Producers’ Group. She delivered it to him as she hopes he can come up with an idea on how to use it, as well as her smoke-tainted wine for her cellar door experience.

Meanwhile, a hungover Diana finds Harry on the phone to Viggo. She knows Viggo is unhappy with her menu, however Harry hangs up the phone call before she can talk to him. Brett, Denise and Diana plan to spend the day out together, however Margot’s delivery of vegies keeps them on the property, which leads to them helping Easton pickle the vegies. June encourages Diana to stand up to Viggo, albeit in a racist way.

Kwame and Nayani come to the property to bring a vegie donation of their own as Diana is telling off Viggo over the phone. Nayani waits in the car and Kwame tells her that he was hoping they would talk to each other. Kwame and Diana end up talking instead, with Kwame telling her that Ben’s given him free reign of his restaurant menu, and Diana in turn tells him that she’s not sure who she is anymore, and ends up kissing him.

Meanwhile, Brett and June get old jars from the toolshed for Easton’s pickled vegetables, and Easton pitches his TV show idea (which is due on Monday) to Denise, although she doesn’t respond to it at all. When June’s knee locks up, Easton tells her and Brett to go down to the firepit to rest and sterilise the jars. Easton also manages to find an old washing machine and gets it to work as an automated vegetable peeler.

As Brett is massaging her foot, June tells him that Diana confided in her about being unhappy in London, with June advising her to look out for herself. Brett then goes to get Denise. Meanwhile, Nayani, not able to hold it in any longer, hides in a bush to pee, and overhears Harry and Diana arguing about the menu. Meanwhile Denise and Brett confront June over her advice to Diana, which culminates in Denise asking June to leave.

Diana and Nayani end up talking, with Diana admitting to sending Viggo a menu she knew he wouldn’t like and yelling at him for proving her right. Nayani tells her that she shouldn’t compromise her food, which echoes what Kwame told her earlier. Diana writes up a new menu and gives it to Harry, which he loves (although it’s not made clear whether she reworked her submitted recipes, or wrote some out of cookbooks, or if they were completely new creations), however she tells Harry that she doesn’t think she makes sense in London.

Meanwhile, Easton gives Margot some of the pickled vegetables to try, which she loves. Easton also shows her that he made sourdough and IPA with leftover pickling brine. Margot and Easton then come up with ideas to use some of the smoke-tainted wine as pickling vinegar and turning some of into smoky batch gin. He also tells her about being asked to pitch a TV show idea and he’s thought of teaching people how to cook at home whilst being waste-free. He would essentially be paid to do what he’s already been doing.

The episode ends with Harry and Diana bidding each other a tearful farewell and Diana going to Denise instead of June for comfort.

Overall, I felt that this was a solid penultimate episode for the season as Harry and Diana’s relationship came to its predictable end, and Easton has finally figured out where to go next with his career. The fact that his idea would also help Margot’s business shows how far he’s come as a character. If it was the previous season, he’d only care about himself, this season he’s willing to share his success, in part, with another person.

I’m looking forward to reviewing the finale.

Stray Observations:

Running gags – the goat wearing Brett’s T-shirt roaming around the property, and Easton’s unofficial title of ‘waste whistleblower’.

-Some of the alternative nicknames Easton comes up with for himself that he suggests to Margot are, “Dr. Dumpster”, “Bin Busters” and “Wasted West”.

-Diana’s menu for the London restaurant included:

• Tits Up! – a shiny lily cake made with a delicious vanilla sugar glaze over an organic ganache filled with sponge cake. Nibble these jugs, baby!
• Bacon & Egg Hanglova – an elegant dessert made with a crisp white meringue layer filled with whipped cream and fresh fruit.
• Terry’s Jam & Custard Sanga – whipped shortbread cookies that are so soft they will literally melt in your proverbial cake hole. Love ‘em or lose ‘em! (This was the dessert served at the fundraiser lunch in the previous episode).

-Apparently, Elon Musk is following Easton online.

Best one liners and interactions:

• “Jamie and Gordon pillaged every decent TV idea and most of the crap ones.” (Easton to June on TV cooking shows)
• “I sexted my jugs to a Nordic food god!” (Diana to Harry on her Tits Up! dessert)
• “Look, come on, give me an idea, you furry shit!” (Easton to the goat)
• “What about minigolf? Harry can come if he’s not dead.” (Denise to Diana on spending time together)
• “I’d have a word with this Viggo guy if I were you. I mean the Scandis, they’re arrogant. I mean he’d probably respect you more if you told him to a stick a well-designed bookcase up his arse.” “Oh, Grandma, firstly, I don’t think you can say that anymore because it’s racist. And, secondly, Harry would kill me if I did that.” (June-Diana)