Southern Hospitality S4E13
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No dilly dallying here - let’s discuss the season finale of Southern Hospitality.
Joe Bradley tries to fight off a ladybug like it’s physically attacking him. He’s reminding me of all the times I’ve walked face first into a spider web and probably looked like an absolute crazy person to anyone who can see me flailing my arms around in front of me to get it off. We arrive at Lake’s art show. Michols says that he’s had a conversation with Leva about his job email and I guess it’s not a demotion. They’ve created a new position for him so he can focus on modelling as well as working at Republic. Sooo that was extremely anti-climatic.
The guys are all getting their tits out for the girls so they can do some live drawing. Joe Bradley is feeling self-conscious. He doesn’t want to take his shirt off. He’s all “my body, my choice” - just like a man to appropriate a saying that holds a lot of significance to women and use it as a fucking joke. Lake gets a call from her dad and unsurprisingly he’s not showing up. She tells him her mum isn’t coming either because she’s at a work dinner. Jeeeeezzzz. Hard to get familial support around these parts. Joe Bradley is stirring shit and telling everyone that Michols is no longer AGM. They all seem to concur that it’s a demotion, which he gets very defensive about. He wants everyone to talk about the art, not him.
Turns out Lake’s mum did show up for her. Thank goodness for that. I don’t know if I can handle anymore parental trauma on this show. Joe meets with Leva to discuss his business plan. He asks how she is. She’s tired. Probably because she has two kids, a husband and 500 businesses to take care of. Joe says he’s tired too. His cushy job, gorgeous girlfriend and overall lack of responsibility really take it out of him. He loves hospitality, he loves live music, he loves love, he loves weddings. Apparently he wants to throw weddings? Or wedding after parties?
Leva is dubious to say the least. She says Joe knows nothing of weddings and she’s gonna need more. She’s gonna need market research, budgets, return on investment. She’s needing to give him a reality check. She says if you have investors, they’re just your new boss. I’m not sure Joe Bradley is getting it. Unsurprisingly. Maddi and Joe meet up to play pickleball. Joe basically tells Maddi that Leva doesn’t want to go into business with him, which isn’t quite what transpired. Maddi starts crying and says it’s frustrating to see him work hard and not get anywhere. I’m kinda confused about this whole situation. If Joe thinks his idea is this good and actually feels like he can pull it off, Leva isn’t the be all and end all of it happening. It’s actually kind of crazy that Joe Bradley just expects her to help him out.
We see everyone getting ready for the Republic staff Mardi Gras party. TJ is telling Mia and Molly about the date that he went on with Joe’s friend. He says things went well and he stayed over. He wants them to know he has big hands. Joe Bradley and said friend, Matt, arrive. Things get awkward when Molly starts to talk shit about Michols. They then discuss girls’ night with the cucumbers and Grace Lilly’s infamous bumming joke. With that there’s a bing bong at the door and I guess with just the mention of her name, Grace Lilly appears. Joe is bamboozled.
The people are all arriving at the party. Michols doesn’t seem to be a big fan of TJ’s date, or the fact that TJ is on a date. Joe Bradley is, yet again, shit stirring and telling Michols that Molly is upset with him because according to Emmy, he got Molly fired. Brad is feeding Julia shrimp and I just want to say that watching someone feed another person makes me uncomfortable. Maybe it’s because whenever someone has done it to me, I’ve either felt infantilised or like food was going to end up all over me.
Michols pulls Molly for a chat. He says it’s crazy that anyone thinks I got you fired. Molly says that’s what Emmy said to me. Michols brings Emmy into the chat. Emmy tells her side of things and Molly is all “nope, that’s not what you said, you’re lying.” My god I wish I cared about this situation. Emmy says “I never said he was involved” and Michols wants to know why he would be. Molly says to us she didn’t expect Emmy to have her back, but the conversation she had is on camera. She thinks Emmy is an idiot, right along with a lot of other people.
Molly starts getting heated and everyone starts spectating and getting involved. Michols is now getting heated and says to Molly, “if it were up to me, you wouldn’t have worked at Republic in the first place because you’re a shitty employee.” Michols is yelling “you were deplorable.” Molly is all “I’m a great employee.” Then Michols starts yelling “your friendship cost me nothing,” which is the final straw for Leva. She’s all whoa whoa whoa. Everyone is telling him to chill and relax, but he doesn’t care apparently. He screams “this is a conversation between Molly and I.” Uhhh, it’s not when you start yelling so loud the whole room can hear you.
Leva comes over and Michols storms off. Everyone wants to know what the hell is happening. Leva confirms that he knew about Molly’s firing before it happened. She says no shit he did, he’s the AGM. Joe Bradley, who started this whole thing, and Lake follow Michols out. They go to calm him down. Michols says something about being demoted and Joe says “no no no, you weren’t demoted, it was a promotion, come back to the party.” Which is laughable. Joe, you were the one talking shit to everyone about him getting demoted in the first place. Good lord.
Michols comes back and immediately everyone is in his face again asking who is lying. I guess it’s Michols because he’s continuing to say he didn’t know, even though Leva just said he did. Molly gets mad at someone calling a beignet a donut. I was under the impression that a beignet was a donut. Upon further investigation, it would appear that yes, they are donuts, but there are small differences. None of which are all that interesting. But neither is the argument that is taking place. Soooo I’m at a loss.
Anyway, Grace Lilly wants to talk to Joe Bradley. Joe tells her that he doesn’t hate her, but the way she’s treated Maddi and himself is unacceptable. Grace says she knows. She says it’s hard for her to ask for help. He wants her to know that they love her and support her. They hug it out.
Leva comes out to give a speech and annnnd her tits look like they’re about to fall sideways out of her dress. Anyway, she’s brought the new CEO with her, whose name I didn’t get, but he is reminding me so much of the mayor from Widow’s Bay. He looks just like him. Great show by the way if you haven’t seen it. I can’t remember the last time I saw a show with both great horror and great comedy. Leva and the CEO talk about the future of Republic and a new bar which is apparently going to have a rooftop bar and live music. Joe Bradley is all WTF, they stole my idea. Uhhhh Joe, rooftop bars and live music have been around for a while. WAKE UP.
Joe and Maddi talk to Leva about the situation and basically Leva says you were supposed to be a part of the rooftop bar but you disappeared. Cut to TJ saying that Maddi has been talking shit about Joe Bradley to Molly. These people are so fucking messy. Apparently Maddi told her that she doesn’t want to marry Joe, which I feel like she’s been honest about, her hesitation to get married. TJ says once the show airs it’s gonna be a big problem. I feel like it’s a big problem if it’s being portrayed in the wrong way. Also, it hasn’t even been a part of the show until right now when you’ve brought it up.
We flash back to Joe Bradley telling Leva. Leva says you were basically the golden child and then you started slacking off. She says he was getting a salary for working three days a week and that he’s taking the absolute piss. Joe says he doesn’t regret taking that time off and being there for Maddi because he wants to marry Maddi and have children with her.
Everyone else is doing a cheers at the bar. TJ says where are Joe and Maddi? Emmy replies they’re in a meeting with Leva and it’s heated. This bitch knows everything. Leva says to Joe, “I don’t need you.” Annnnd everyone at the bar cheers. This program is so silly.
We see a preview of the reunion and somehow the demon blonde worm with a moustache has weaselled his way into this show too. I guess Mia fucked him and told Sally from Southern Charm that the dick was good. BARF.
That’s it for this week. Enjoy the weekend!
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