![]() “Out of Touch” contains a lot of setup, brimming with love triangles and “hate triangles,” assuring us that there’s plenty of drama ahead for our troubled teens.The first special episode, “Trouble Don’t Last Always,” debuted December 6 on HBO and had an early streaming premiere on HBO Max starting December 4. ![]() ![]() We don’t hear Nate’s answer, and I’m pretty sure Maddy still has it, but Nate likely has every reason to lie, just to hold some leverage over his dear old, deeply perverted dad. Cal, stunned that his son managed to turn the tables on him, asks where the tape is (recorded nonconsensually, of course). Still, Lexi seems to like him, even after witnessing his violent side.Īs Cal enters the gas station, the scene plays like a tense standoff from a Spaghetti Western it’s all in the eyes, as Lexi tenses and withdraws, Fez notices her discomfort, and a wordless glance to the ever-reliable agent of violence, Ash, implies that if there’s going to be trouble, Ash will handle it.Ĭal carefully assesses the situation, while Ash gets ready to murder another civilian violence seems inevitable, until Cal decides to simply pay for his snacks and leave, making sure that Fez knows he has a target on his back.Īfter Cal arrives home and smugly tells his son the news, Nate lies to his father, claiming that Cal’s taped sex session with the underage Jules sparked the conflict, his delivery deliciously cold and casual. ![]() Nate, however, is keeping the secret to himself, so Cal interrogates Lexi and Cassie, shamelessly intimidating the two sisters right in front of their mother it goes to show what one can get away with, with friends in local law enforcement.Ĭassie obviously panics and spills the beans, leading to Cal loading a gun and setting off to meet Fez at his “workplace.” Lexi is already there, and is dismayed to see that Fez is hanging out with Faye she seems to assume that the two are sleeping together, and Fez won’t clarify the situation, being a man of very few words. It also sets up Kat with the interesting problem of not really having a problem at all.Ĭal is determined to find out who sent his son to the hospital (nobody is allowed to assault Nate except Cal, clearly). The scene viscerally captures the feeling of being bullied into confidence by annoying internet personalities, all without showing a single screen. The second shows Kat struggling with self-loathing, only to be inundated by an army of Instagram and TikTok influencers, who demand nothing less than unadulterated self-love, flaunting their perfect figures and faces, blaming Kat’s insecurity on the white-hetero-cis-patriarchy and verbally assaulting her with hollow platitudes. Kat’s two daydream sequences prove the hilarious highlight of the episode the first shows Ethan being brutally slaughtered by a generic fantasy warrior, a bit like an off-brand Jason Momoa, who jackhammers the former dominatrix into submission, right in front of Ethan’s bleeding corpse. Kat appears to be enjoying a picture-perfect relationship with Ethan, while secretly guilting herself over the fact that she just doesn’t like him very much.
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