fugly slut<\/a> thief is an earthquake that shakes Tallulah and Maia to their cores; \u201cGirl\u2019s Girl\u201d traces the ripple effect of the aftershocks.\u00a0For Maia, this is a make-or-break professional crisis. For Tallulah, it\u2019s a one-way ticket to the bottom of a paranoid spiral that everyone in her new city\u2019s out to get her \u2014 and she\u2019s not entirely wrong. Unless you\u2019re Mimi Rush\u2019s close, personal friend slash mother Zendaya, no Tr\u00e9semme deal will protect you from the blaze of a scandal. And if your friends are all In The Industry and your go-to haunts are exclusively trendy Eastside caf\u00e9s, then yeah, you probably are surrounded by people who know exactly who you are and what you did to be the main character of the day.<\/p>\nTallulah also finds out about the video while hooked up to Alani\u2019s at-home vitamin IV drip, a luxury that quickly becomes body horror when she rips out the IV in a panic and starts dripping blood all over the (gorgeous) floor. By the time Maia gets there, her friend\/client is turning the place inside out to find a spare vape, which Maia quickly provides with a calming voice as if handing a toddler her precious binky. Meanwhile, Alani\u2019s high as hell, having nobly taken the calming edible that Tallulah refused. Once again, Odessa A\u2019zion and True Whitaker land all their comedic beats without breaking a sweat.<\/p>\n
It eventually takes Alani submerging Tallulah\u2019s phone in a vase to keep her from snapping at Paulena\u2019s comments with ironclad defenses for herself, such as, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you suck my fucking dick from the back?\u201d Whatever works! (Shoutout to At Home with Amy Sedaris director Bill Benz for giving this whole episode \u2014 but especially this scene \u2014 such palpably frantic energy.)<\/p>\n
The temperature in the room just keeps rising once Charlie bursts in to share his own personal disaster: seemingly all of LA\u2019s gays have heard about Mimi firing him, and are therefore refusing to let him cut the line for coffee. (If you\u2019re watching I Love LA looking for stakes any higher than that, I\u2019m gonna go ahead and suggest you watch a different show.) Obviously, Charlie\u2019s solution to this unwanted social distancing is to use Tallulah\u2019s distraction dinner date as his own reputation with the gay service workers of LA. Assuming their waiter is of that demo, he sucks up to him with flattery, over-ordering, and a comically huge tip. Unfortunately, the waiter\u2019s reaction is to gush about how happy this generosity will make his wife, thus leaving Charlie back at square one. This isn\u2019t the first time his storyline unfolds in an episode so separately from the rest of the characters that none of them seem to absorb a word he\u2019s saying, and I suspect it won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Maia goes to work fully expecting Alyssa to be in meltdown mode over Tallulah jeopardizing their business interests. Instead, her boss could not be calmer or less interested in the sordid details of this scandal. Instead, she and a placid consultant (Josh Brener) instruct Maia to carry out the basic apology protocol for the relatively low-pressure situation of \u201cwhite on white bullying,\u201d which is \u201cmuch easier to come back from.\u201d (Even while stuck behind a desk for most of her scenes, Leighton Meester\u2019s still crushing it.)<\/p>\n
Maia, protective of her friend and furious at Paulena\u2019s hypocrisy, can\u2019t imagine trying to make Tallulah apologize in ChatGPT corporate speak. She spends the rest of the episode grappling with her gut feeling that it\u2019s the wrong move, but it\u2019s an encounter with an aggressively anti-woke Silver Lake mom at Dylan\u2019s school fundraiser that helps her make up her mind. If even a preteen thinks that backing down over a cookie is a weakness, surely it\u2019s unacceptable for Tallulah to do the same here, I guess\u2026? \u201cGirl\u2019s Girl\u201d contains several threads of darkly funny commentary on how anyone can twist #girlboss culture and \u201cbeing a girl\u2019s girl\u201d into something much more sinister. Some of it, like Alyssa\u2019s blas\u00e9 crisis management and Paulena\u2019s faux-feminist reasons for ratting out Tallulah, land. But Maia\u2019s lightbulb moment, coming from a mom praising her daughter for \u201cnot reinforcing beta habits,\u201d doesn\u2019t quite track in the same way.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s more, it doesn\u2019t even prove necessary once Alani recognizes Paulena as \u201cPaulena Grace Rikers\u201d (yes, that Rikers), thus giving Maia a reason to let Tallulah off the Alyssa180 leash. This revelation of family war crimes past gives Tallulah all the ammunition she needs to dismantle Paulena\u2019s virtuous online persona. Emboldened, she does so in a snappy video response that admittedly does lose her the Tr\u00e9semme deal, but instead might land her an arguably much more prestigious partnership with Balenciaga. If Maia ends this season as a full-blown PR monster, finding kinship with that noxious mom to such success will absolutely be the moment that made it possible.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tallulah\u2019s nerves around the hot chef who slid into her DMs is extremely understandable once she\u2019s revealed to be a butch Moses Ingram, because hot. It\u2019s a shame Tallulah couldn\u2019t relax enough to indulge in some storeroom sex with her, but judging by her (also very hot!) move of sharing her number in a jar of rice for Tallulah\u2019s drowned phone, this can\u2019t be the last we see of her.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Congrats to Dylan, whose principal\u2019s response to seeing a meme of his employee doing a wild amount of coke isn\u2019t \u201cyou\u2019re fired,\u201d but \u201ccan you get my friends some?\u201d Doesn\u2019t exactly solve the problem of that photo living on the internet forever, but convenient in the short-term, anyway.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cIf Talullah gets a reputation as \u2018brand unsafe,\u2019 I\u2019m fucked. What\u2019s she going to do, write a book?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cIt\u2019s like my dad used to say: \u2018we\u2019re not letting another indictment ruin Christmas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cShe just broke my phone. What am I supposed to look at?!?\u201d<\/p>\n
VULTURE NEWSLETTER<\/p>\n
Keep up with all the drama of your favorite shows!<\/p>\n
Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n
By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I Love LA Girl\u2019s Girl Season 1 Episode 3 Editor\u2019s Rating 3 stars *** Paulena\u2019s scathing TikTok is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,1144,5560,104013,2961,224,5337,23805,23806,173,23804],"class_list":{"0":"post-384696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-comedy","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-i-love-la","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-overnights","17":"tag-recaps","18":"tag-tv","19":"tag-tv-recaps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115563784909859301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ccb1f78c1ecc1d992283d0361a48739352-ilovela-ep3.rsquare.w400.jpg\")
<\/p>\n