[upbeat music]
- [Molly] Mom?
- Hi!
Honey you made it.
- When I imagined a swinger party
I pictured guy in a thong
with a rady ponytail and really bad wallpaper.
Not this, Hunter.
Really?
- [Meredith] Oh, honey.
Come on, we were just dancing.
- No place is safe, oh my god.
Is this why you waited till I left home to get a pool?
- Oh, pfh.
Molly, your not listening sweetie.
Come in here.
Have an adult conversation.
- I don't want to.
I came here to have a place to stay
for a couple of days and it's supposed to feel like home.
- [Francis] Honey,
you're always welcome in our home.
- Oh sweetie, stop.
You just don't look so good.
- This isn't helping.
- Well, honey I was honest with you
so that you could be honest with us.
- Wrong choice, man.
- Hey! Not everyone in an open marriage
is some kind of sex addicted freak show.
Between this house, my job, raising you,
and having a meaningful relationship with your father
I do not have time to have sex
with every other person I see.
Even if I wanted to.
- No, don't.
- Molly, sweetie,
we love you unconditionally.
And just because you disagree with our lifestyle,
don't waste your time judging us.
[rattling]
You want me to drive you somewhere?
- I am an adult woman.
I'm taking your car,
I'm taking your phone,
and I will return them when I'm ready to.
- Molly--
- If you have a problem with that
then, you should think long and hard
about why you chose to have me.
[receding footsteps]
- [Hunter] That was my phone!
Who was that?
[somber music]
- Hey.
- [Elle] Hey.
- You good?
- I don't know, I don't know.
I have literally never been more happy to see you though.
- [Jake] Really?
- Yeah, buddy.
[energetic music]
- Hey, um, I have a good idea.
- Hit me.
- Um, I am a really good cook.
- Oh, stop being so humble.
- And, um, I'm done in 20 minutes
and I think you should let me cook for you.
- Oh. - Is Molly home tonight?
- Oh, fuck. I don't know
she's not my fucking award so, I don't know.
- Oh, I mean I just, I didn't know if maybe
she wanted to eat with us.
- Oh, well that's very lovely.
Um, no she'll be fine.
But I am starving, yes.
- All right. - Thank you.
- Great, um I was thinking
my Nanna's shepherd's pie.
When it all comes together it's got this really rich gravy--
- Oh, I'm a vegetarian.
- And beefy, oh.
- I'm sorry.
- Um, I only know how to make shepherd's pie.
- I thought you were a really good cook.
- Of shepherd's pie.
- Really just like,
honing in on your one dish there.
- But like it's so good.
- I don't- - You should maybe eat
some beef for this.
- [Elle] I won't eat it.
- Mac and cheese?
- Oh, I would eat that.
- Yeah? Like from the powder kind?
- No. [laughing]
- Oh, you want boujee but I can't do that.
- I will literally eat anything else.
[upbeat music]
♪ There is nothing wrong with lovers ♪
♪ Worshiping each other
♪ Worshiping--
♪ There is nothing wrong with lovers ♪
♪ Worshiping each other
♪ Worshiping, worshiping
[airplane engine roars]
[cutting on cutting board]
[upbeat music]
- Oh shit.
Shit, shit shit, shit, shit.
[groans]
That's okay [mumbles]
- [Elle] How's it going in there?
- Yeah uh... great.
Get ready to be impressed.
Here it is.
The meal of your dreams.
- [Elle] Oh, my.
- Awesome. I know what I'm doing and--
- Oh my god, look at this cool place.
So cool.
- That's... Well that's hidest.
- Not a word.
- That's a word. - Nope, please come on.
- I [sighs] thank you.
Thank you. - Yes, [mumbles] cheers.
- Cheers. Looks like, good.
Mm, is this that band?
- Yes, yes it is.
Good ear.
[laughing] You know the one I mean.
- The like [beats]
- [beats]
- There's like,
lots of drums.
- This is my band.
- Ew. - What?
- Who actually listens to their own band?
- Okay, wait no.
My mp3 player is on shuffle.
- Mp3 player?
Is it 1999 or?
- All right, okay.
I'm shutting this off.
We're going to turn it off, right now.
- No no no no, wait wait wait.
I want to hear it, I want to hear all of it.
I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Batteries out.
- I didn't realize you were good.
- [laughing]
- Wow. - Sorry.
- So nice of you, okay - Sorry.
- Listen, before you eat
I just want to say something very quickly.
I think that you are neat.
You are a neat girl.
- Oh, you are weird.
- Thank you. [laughing]
- Um, I feel like we have a thing, right?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Good, great.
Um, but do you...
have a boyfriend?
or something?
That guy at Rosie's, was he...
It seemed like he was meeting your mom for the first time.
- Oh, no. Fuck, no.
That is Hunter.
He's uh-he was with my mom actually.
My mom and dad, that was her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend
or fuck I don't know whatever.
So, don't worry about that.
- But you guys were...
Okay, I'm officially lost.
- Sorry, yes.
Um, so she had an affair with him and,
ooh you know what, I don't really want to talk about it.
If that's okay, I'd love to not think about it.
I would love to just-
No I would love to just be here with you
and not think.
- Okay, all right.
- Um, usually I'd, you know, um
but I just, I can't.
- No, no that's fine.
You know what, I wasn't-
I didn't expect--
- It's just, it's weird because I just,
I keep thinking about Christmas.
Like I really love Christmas.
And, um, [sighs]
You know like, nobody's every going to love you
the way your parents do.
Right, like that love doesn't exist
anywhere else in the world.
And, [melancholy music]
My family had this like net around me.
It was like everything was just handled, you know?
And, my mom fucking destroyed it.
Completely forever.
And I just, I didn't have a chance to prepare for it.
Like I didn't realize that that last Christmas
was going to be our last Christmas together.
You know?
[sniffling]
But just everything feels colder now.
It just feels cold and I'm
so scared, I'm terrified all the time.
Which is weird.
And I just don't know who else is going to
love me like that, you know?
Like the way my whole family in all togetherness loved me.
But I get it, right.
Like, I'm an adult.
So I should just get the fuck over it and move on.
But I can't because it's my family.
- Okay, okay. No, no, no it's okay.
Do you...
Did you ever hear about that ski hill
made out of garbage.
They built on top of an incinerator.
- What? [laughing]
What are you talking about?
- It's in Copanae again.
It converts something like
400,000 tons of waste into energy.
You ever heard of that? - Nope.
- It's called Copenhill.
- Oh. - Yeah.
Yeah pretty cool, you see how I did that?
Yeah, fancy.
And, um,
all that garbage
nobody wanted it.
Of course not, it's garbage,
it's trash get rid of it - Right.
But look what those danes did.
They took all that stinky garbage,
that trash,
and they made something kind of beautiful.
Kind of useful.
[lighthearted music]
- What I'm saying is-it's fine.
I would rather ski knowing all of that, than not.
- So is my mom the incinerator ski hill dump,
or am-like I'm garbage?
- Yes, you're garbage.
[laughing] I'm trying to say that
you're garbage.
- Okay, great as long as we're clear on that.
- Yeah [laughing] no.
[sighs]
Families are hard.
You've got this mishmash of people
living together trying to get along,
trying to figure out who they are.
- Yeah, yep.
um, [sighs], you just,
you don't really get it, you know.
Cause I've lost my mom.
It's..
- Did I ever tell you about my dead dad?
Did I ever tell you that?
- Yeah, my dad died when I was 25.
Suddenly... and immediately
felt like half of me had been ripped away.
Like I felt empty on one side.
Felt off kilter.
And I felt like my life was over.
And...
took me years to figure out that,
that whole was not going to get replaced.
It's just the way it is.
And he was nowhere near perfect but,
I miss him every single day.
And I'm never going to be able to tell him that I loved him.
And Christmas is really hard.
[melancholy music]
And I think that if you have someone who loves you
you just got to let them love you in the way that they do.
And you got to find a way to love them back
when you have the chance.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's okay.
- No, I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm, like, sitting here talking about losing my family
and you're an actual orphan.
- [laughs] Okay, I'm not an actual orphan.
- No I just [stammering]
I think I fucked things up with Molly, you know?
And she's the feelings, like I-
She's really my only friend.
[crying] and I'm such an asshole like,
why are you still even here?
- I live here. This is my house.
- You made me dinner and you play all these instruments
that are here that you play.
You play that instrument?
- Yes, I do. - Do you play that one?
- That was a gift. I don't.
- And your just so sweet and I know you [mumbles]
- Okay, okay, okay.
Listen, you have very good conviction.
This is strong but,
I see you.
I don't think you're any of those things.
[sniffling]
I really like you.
- Oh.
- Despite your incessant mocking of my mp3 player.
- I have to. - Why?
- Because it's not 1999. - I love it.
No system is better than that mp3 player.
- There are many better systems.
- No, it's perfect.
[laughs]
- I'm really tired.
- Okay.
Well, how about I just sit here with you.
[laughs]
We'll just sit here.
- Why?
- Well because we have to wait for the pizza to arrive.
- Oh, fuck yes.
- Yeah, cause we're not eating that shit.
- But it's two whole colors.
- Yeah, two whole colors.
- It's okay.
We could put it on the pizza.
[laughing]
[lighthearted music]
♪ I think your scars are sweet
♪ And your harelip's neat
♪ And I love your eyes
♪ I just want to be yours for evermore. ♪
♪ And to live our strange, strange life ♪