What’s a healthy body count? TBH, it could be different for everyone, so why generalize and why judge. Do we know that people are going to? Absolutely. That’s the way life goes, unfortunately. We judge and we sex shame. Two things that we shouldn’t be doing.
But here we are and in episode three of LAID, Ruby is getting her body count tossed up on a board right in front of her. AJ’s her bestie, but NGL, if my bestie pulled this crap, we’d be besties no more. Yes, yes, at a point I thought it was funny, but if it was done on a personal level, I would be cringing.
Especially with the blow job overlay.
But I have to remember that this is a comedy, and it’s a dark one. So you have to take everything tongue in cheek and laugh at it. Cause if you don’t – you are missing the point. And though, I am still figuring out what that point is, I am refusing to not find the humor in what is.
And this episode – that’s trying to tell all the people that Ruby has slept with that they are probably going to die. Having to explain the timeline and what has happened to them – not easy. But we’ll get there.
At first, Ruby is just going to freak out and think that someone is stalking her. She’s got a delivery to her door and after viewing the chart on the white board, she’s convinced that it’s a head. I mean, cause why not. Obviously if someone is sending you a package, marked fragile, it’s a head.
And obviously if you get a package that is a head, you go right to the police station and you file a report. Not to mention, you air drop your sex timeline to everyone there, because hey, they can’t sex shame you. They aren’t allowed to call you crazy. There are all sorts of laws against that
Ruby doesn’t even have to hang her head in shame when the detective shows her that it’s just snow globes.
TBH, the person I can understand the most right now is Ruby. She’s just wanting answers. She wants to know why this is happening, all while keeping a big secret from her bestie, falling for her client, and really just coming face to face with her past.
Its kinda sad that she’s going through this. One thing that this show is excelling at is developing the relationship between her and Isaac, and so to see her fears about everything that is happening coming to life put that space there – I don’t like. But what creeps me out even more is the blood all over Isaac’s carpet.
Isaac says it’s from squirrels, as his girlfriend likes the windows open all the time and she’s apparently allergic to window screens. So, naturally squirrels like to come inside and apparently he’s got to bludgeon them to death? This is some weird s*** and I am not one that really likes this whole scene. I can’t past the whole baseball bat to the squirrel thing.
Neither can Ruby, who thinks now that her stalker has to be Isaac. Only AJ tells her she doesn’t have one and that’s a good bestie. There is a time to be supportive and a time to foster a friends delulu. This is not a time to foster the delulu.
But an even better bestie is one that supports and goes with you to tell people the whole crazy situation and that everyone you’ve slept with is dying. AJ is the real hero, because she’s the voice of reason. She’s trying to tell everyone to look at things differently and see that there is something happening here.
But I can’t help but laugh at all the moments that AJ is really just along to try to figure out the reason that everyone is dying. She’s not sugar coating anything for anyone. She’s telling Ruby that people didn’t have the nicest things to say.
Truly they didn’t. Ruby was torn down. Like I felt bad for her. I wanted to crawl into a hole for Ruby. But then again, AJ was so right when she said that she’s not the same person that she was.
I think that we all judge ourselves based on our past, and people judge us for the moments in time that they knew us. But as human beings we have to cut ourselves some slack, because we’re always evolving and changing. We have to give ourselves credit for that. When it comes to words that people toss at us, I can understand that people let it affect our spirit. But we’re all subject to change and though people don’t have to embrace that about us, it doesn’t mean that it’s not there.
Ruby has changed. She’s screwed up – yes. Why? Because she’s slept with Zach and not told her bestie that she did that. It is eating her alive. She can’t be around the two of them and that is something to be said for her guilt. She’s going to have to find some sort of peace with that on her own, if she can.
Not sure she can though. Honesty is her only real option. It’s going to be hard and a journey, but will it be worth it? Yes. We all make mistakes and we all have to pay for them.
She’s just gotta get past the fact that she’s getting kidnapped. Cause yes, that’s how this episode ends. Black bag over the head and all.
LAID is streaming now on Peacock.
