If you are lucky in life, you find friends that are always there for you. You find your people – the people that you want around you. The people that you can’t live without. The people that make you better.
And over life, you’re going to go through the ups and the downs with them. You’re gonna wanna find a way to hold onto those relationships and figure out a way to put them back on track, to cherish them, and to find a way to believe that they will exist.
Friendships will go through ups and downs. They will be there though, if you’re lucky.
Jules, Stella, Madison, and Izzy have that ride or die friendship.
THE WES QUOTIENT
If you’re asking me, Jules puts way too much faith in Wes. He’s obviously a red flag in everything that he does. A red flag with excuses.
She’s also carrying the weight of the lies that she needs to keep in order to move forward with this relationship with Wes. But the truth is, that if you have to keep things from your friends, that’s an issue.
Wes claims that the end of his ex living with him is coming to an end and he’s driving her to Arizona and dropping her off with her family. He’ll talk to her on the way and drop her off.
Jules needs to think and do better. She needs to stop settling for this bullshit that he throws her way.
The red flags are everywhere.
NEEDING YOUR BFF BACK
Jules and Madison are very dependent on each other and that’s okay. I feel like it’s one of those things that we do in life. We have to overcome it and be happy for our friends when they do more for themselves.
When Madison says that she’s out for a work thing, but the ‘gram tells Jules that she is out with Ruby, Jules becomes jealous. She wants to believe in her best friend, but she’s also skeptical.
And so who better to ask for information from than Q at work. Honestly he may be my favorite character, as his shade and pettiness is what I hope to achieve in life. He listens to Jules and tells het that his is easy – make plans with Madison.
Just make plans with Madison.
Revolutionary that it’s so easy and if we get out of our own heads it’s not that hard.
Life truly isn’t that hard if we really take a practical look at things. But all too often in life, we’re not able to do that, because we’re wrapped up in the pain that we feel or experience in life.
Seeing Jules take the initiative to bring her friends together is a weird thing, cause she normally relies on her friends to do everything. She walks into the room with the group, carrying a kiddie pool, and has decided to bring back Codependence Day.
It’s a day that they made up in college and one that they loved. It was their day to have a great time, but the truth is, it makes one think. Do we ever grow out of the chaos that we create for ourselves? Do we ever stop to see life for the growth that has happened?
EVERYTHING IS A SIGN
Liv and Stella are my favorites. Why? Because they, like so many of us, they are afraid to talk about what is happening between them, but they want answers and to be able to figure it out.
Stella is in a new place – where she’s not the alpha. She wants to be with Liv though and part of that is meeting her friends. So she invites Liv to Codependence Day, not thinking about anything but Liv meeting her friends. However, Liv has a child. And that’s not the place for a 7 year old.
Codependence day is about to have a change of venue. Celeste tells Jules that she needs to stay at her beach house for the weekend. This is not the best news because well, that’s gonna not be something that Madison will love.
Celeste’s house is where Madison becomes the other woman without knowing she is that she was the other women. It was where her life changed.
And you know, I don’t blame her. I don’t blame Madison for being mad. I don’t blame Madison for being upset. I don’t blame her for saying that she’s not going to be a part of it.
Jules always apologizes, but the thing is that apologies don’t mean anything when you’re in a situation that doesn’t change. Jules doesn’t seem to want to change. She wants to make everyone happy, but she’s doing everything wrong. And what do I mean by that?
Jules is not one to stand up to the world around her. She instead lets people walk all over her and doesn’t think about how it affects others.
CODEPENDENCE DAY
Stella, Izzy, and Jules aren’t going to celebrate codependence day without Madison, so they are just hanging out at Celestes. Stella sees this as an opportunity to get Liv to come. And she does.
After all there is a pool.
But hey, as soon as they change it to non-codependence day, Madison and Ruby show up. Madison explains it as Ruby like, “I won’t get over this if I don’t face it.”
That’s the thing about life, a lot of us won’t get over things until we face them.
Like Jules and Wes. She’s not gonna get over things, until she faces that he’s full of shit and a liar. He calls her and says he hasn’t left yet, because his exes Mom found out that the Dad was living a double life and he’s leaving them.
Umm… what the actual fuck? Doesn’t make matters any better when Ruby overhears the whole thing.
Ruby knows about Wes, which I don’t see as a bad thing. I think if anything that should show Jules that Madison really cares and hasn’t forgotten her. But it should also tell her that she should have talked to Madison about it all sooner.
And she does know it. She knows it because she’s so paranoid about what Ruby could be saying about her that she makes herself look like a bigger asshole when she accuses Ruby of telling Madison.
No one can fault Madison for wanting to protect her friend from feeling like she does.
Especially because they live with it every single day.
Celeste shows up and all hell breaks loose. But what it ends up with is Celeste and Madison talking and figuring out that they both need to forgive themselves. Madison was lied to, just as much as Celeste was.
Sometimes you have to go through the hard moments to get to the ones that aren’t so hard – but change everything.
And that’s a beautiful thing.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- The signs at the new bar – love them
- Stella and Liv not talking about what they are is not a good thing. But when they do we give it two thumbs up.
- The popsicle eating contest. Kinda gagged over that one.
- Did we mention how much we love Stella and Liv being together?
- Thank God that was the last codependence day.
Season 2 of Dollface is streaming now on Hulu.