The Last of Us<\/a>. He excuses himself from the room to go cry in the hallway, and Miss\u00e9 is hot on his tail. I get that she wants to comfort him, but let Mark go cry alone in the hallway for a minute. The presentation is about to start, and they\u2019re going to make even more of a scene if it\u2019s two of them going to sit down in the front row, all puffy-eyed. Miss\u00e9, you\u2019re being rude at an etiquette event. Do they not have irony in Sweden? Luckily, the event was a success, everyone learned how to show up, and we finally got to meet Myka\u2019s husband, Marco.<\/p>\nLottie and Joshua go out to dinner, and Lottie orders for them both because he hates ordering food for some reason. Is he that much of a sub? Is he caged and plugged under all of those polka-dot suits? (Straight people do not Google that.) Kimi goes with Miss\u00e9 to visit her brother\u2019s grave. It\u2019s a full-circle moment for these two, and I was touched. I also really need to know where Kimi got those glasses. (Hey Kimi! Can I borrow those glasses?)<\/p>\n
Then we are right into our first Margo confrontation of the episode, where she and Mark have sparkling waters over the sparkling waters of the Thames. She says she\u2019s sorry for calling him a freak and that she hasn\u2019t been kind or a good friend, and she takes responsibility for that. Mark opens up about how she made him feel at Longleat and how he hadn\u2019t felt that shunned and belittled since he was in school. It all starts very sweet until Mark says, \u201cI didn\u2019t want that all thrown back in my face by someone who has narcissistic tendencies.\u201d Is this America\u2019s Next Top Model because no one is here to make friends?<\/p>\n
This is clear to Margo, too. As the digs against her mount, she realizes that Mark does not want reconciliation of any sort. Of course, he doesn\u2019t. Mark wants to be right, sure, but mostly Mark just wants nothing to do with Margo. The thing he won\u2019t say is that he just doesn\u2019t like her, or he thinks she\u2019s beneath him, or he doesn\u2019t like her and thinks she\u2019s beneath him. Instead, he\u2019s just passive-aggressively against her.<\/p>\n
Margo\u2019s way out of this is\u2026 well, there\u2019s no way out of it. I was going to say that she could tell Mark that she didn\u2019t intend to hurt him and that she\u2019s sorry she did. Then she could have told Mark how hurt she was by some of the things he said, but she knows he didn\u2019t mean it either, and they should just move on from a civil place. But Mark wouldn\u2019t react to that. More emotions aren\u2019t going to melt him. His brain must have its own glam squad because his mind is fully made up. What Margo does instead is fascinating. She decides to blow it all up. She just goes after him, saying, \u201cYou were cycling through all of these different personalities, and you came, and you touched me, and you tried to be flirtatious.\u201d<\/p>\n
Does she really think he wanted her? Is she joking? Please tell me she\u2019s joking. Please tell me she was also joking in confessional when she says, \u201cMark wants to fuck.\u201d This is all sarcasm, right? It\u2019s not quite reading as if it is, which means either it\u2019s not, or Margo is an even worse actress than we imagined. Mark barges out of the conversation and later tells Emma that Margo had no interest in listening and that she\u2019s not all there mentally. I can\u2019t wait for next season (please, to the Bravo gods, we need another season) when they can just openly hate each other and snipe for the entire summer.<\/p>\n
Everyone converges at the Joshua Kane fashion show, which has the oddest runway I\u2019ve ever seen. It\u2019s like everyone just comes out of a door, poses for the camera, and then turns around and goes back through the door. It\u2019s like a collection of fashionable people in the same house, each leaving to pick up the newspaper on the front stoop one after another. How many Daily Mail subscriptions can one townhouse have? The clothes were cute though, if not a little costumey.<\/p>\n
Finally, the big showdown we\u2019re waiting for happens: Martha and Margo\u2019s sit-down. Martha, who says she hates confrontation, gets right into it. \u201cI feel like you came back from America with a very different character than the one I\u2019ve known for 20 years,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019ve been quite often ungracious, quite often bitchy, and quite often arrogant, Margo.\u201d But isn\u2019t this the gossip that Mark got from his friend, that she has been very different ever since she got married? Has Mark been right all along?<\/p>\n
Margo says that Martha has it all wrong. She says she approached Mark with humility, and all he did was talk about himself and not take any accountability for what he did. Well, she never brought it up. She just responded to his stories about growing up gay by acting like a crazy person. She is the outsider in this group and in this country. While I don\u2019t think she\u2019s necessarily the narcissist that Mark does, she needs to dial it back a little bit to try to make friends. She needed to coax Mark to a place where he could take accountability. Martha says that Mark made fun of her shoes, and Margo made fun of his character. That is true, but I think what everyone is missing is that Margo didn\u2019t care about him making fun of her clothes; she cared that he was saying one thing to her face and another behind her back. That seems like a point that keeps getting missed.<\/p>\n
Then Margo makes the rest of the conversation about people making fun of her clothes. She says that Martha is the one who started it, and, because she broke the seal, everyone thought they could be mean about her to Martha. Martha correctly points out that Margo has been the source of all this conflict, that she is the one who puts herself in these impossible situations and then blames Martha for them, and then wants Martha\u2019s help in extracting her from them. You can tell that Martha, in the perfect hat and a gorgeous dress, is well and truly done with Margo flitting in from Malibu to screw up her friendships on her home turf.<\/p>\n
It seems like Margo\u2019s biggest sin is trying to settle her scores, to bring up her emotions, and to try to get other people to bring up theirs as well, which, to be honest, is the enterprise. She may be annoying, grating, and more poorly dressed than a McDonald\u2019s salad, but she is the one making this here reality television program. I love watching all of these gals (and Mark) have a great time with each other, but for it to be anything like what we\u2019re used to watching on Bravo, we need Margo.<\/p>\n
Martha tells her, \u201cWe handle things differently here. No one talks about anything. We just bitch about each other behind their backs. That\u2019s English society.\u201d That\u2019s not English society, that\u2019s every society, at least every polite society. Sure, sometimes those conflicts will spill over because someone is caught off guard or the tension gets too high, but that\u2019s how we all get along, that\u2019s how we all get through the day. No one could like everyone, and, honestly, I don\u2019t want to be friends with someone who did. Imagine that your friend felt about you the way they feel about everyone else. How dreadful! We need to know our friends are discerning, that they see a quality in us, that there is something about each other that\u2019s connecting, like a radio tuned to just the right frequency. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re all here to do, walking through the world throwing out our own unique radio waves and looking for the people uniquely tuned to pick them up. Sadly, now and again, you\u2019ll get some feedback, but once that connection is made, those radios are locked, and the only way to keep the station humming is to enjoy it. Even when a bad song comes on you say to everyone else how terrible it is, but you keep tuned, you stay on the station, you continue the connection because, in the end, that\u2019s all we have, radios caught on each other, playing the perfect melody so that we can always sing and, on the best occasions, when all the variables alight, we can dance.<\/p>\n
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