.
[discordant piano notes]
♪ ♪
- ♪ This land is your land ♪
♪ ♪
♪ This land is my land ♪
♪ ♪
♪ From California ♪
♪ ♪
♪ To the New York island ♪
♪ ♪
♪ From the Redwood Forest ♪
♪ ♪
- Of course
they're playing this song.
This is
the corniest, touristy--
- Wait, you don't
like this song?
I mean, sure,
it's a little corny,
but if it catches me
in the right mood,
it always makes me cry.
You think they're playing
this song to distract us
from the fact
that we're 110 stories
above the Earth's surface?
- I wouldn't know.
I got a 30-inch vertical leap.
I'm used to being up this high.
- Come on, don't lie.
You're a little scared.
You're sweating
through your shirt.
- That's just the way
the light hits my muscles
underneath my shirt.
You know, it creates shadows.
- Right, my mistake.
Muscle shadows.
- We also walked for,
like, eight hours today.
- Yeah, well, we had to do
all the Chicago things
in ten hours.
- An hour of which we spent
not being able to move
because of Lou Malnati's.
- So worth it.
- That deep dish?
[together]
So good.
- I can't believe you spit it
all over yourself
trying it to fold it like
a New York slice.
This is Chicago, girl.
- Yeah, well, how else was I
supposed to trick you
into buying me
my favorite shirt?
I'm kidding.
I'm gonna pay you back.
- Hell no.
We're days away from electing
our first female president.
Time to get excited.
♪ ♪
[children scream]
- Grayson, Everett, stop it.
- You really
that afraid of heights?
- You really not scared at all?
- No.
You wanna lean up
against the glass?
- No.
- Come on.
It's gonna be okay.
We're gonna get
through this together.
- ♪ This land was made
for you and me ♪
♪ ♪
- So you lied
about your fear of heights?
- I was trying
to make her feel safe.
- Her or you?
Ben, dishonesty
creates distance,
not intimacy.
- I thought lying
above a certain altitude
was okay
like international waters
but the sky.
- I think that you are afraid
that she won't like you--
the real you.
- Can we focus
on my stress ulcer?
- I am.
You bottle things up.
You try to be optimistic
and strong to everyone
when you're really
afraid and in pain.
Look, what is keeping you
from telling Annie
how you feel about her?
- I don't know.
- I have an assignment for you.
- Therapy's got homework?
- Radical honesty
with the people that you love.
No hiding--
just speak your truth
and allow them to have
an honest
and informed response to it.
- Are you even
a good therapist?
Like, I didn't Yelp you
or anything.
- Next week we can discuss
your use of humor
as a means of deflection.
- So you want me to be honest
and not funny, cool.
- You're still doing it.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
all: Cheers.
- Ugh.
- Oh, eyes, eyes, eyes.
- I can't believe
how insane this election is?
Have you guys heard about him
wanting to fire Fauci?
- Oh, yes.
- Everything's
gonna be okay, right?
- Annie, that's the 12th time
you've asked us,
and we still don't know.
- I could hold
a vote right now,
between Winnie the Pooh
and the Teddy Graham bear.
We could all vote for Winnie.
I could still make Teddy win.
Hacking is real.
- I cannot take
another four years
of the Teddy Graham bear.
- Well, we just all need
to be Care Bears, all right?
And blast that gay as hell
rainbow stare
as far and wide as possible.
Look, I'm nervous too,
but I want queer and trans kids
to know we're still
gonna be here to protect them.
- I can't handle
watching the results tomorrow.
Cameron's planned
a special, virtual date
to distract me.
- oh, that's so cute.
- Seems like a weird day
for a date.
- You know,
I've been fantasizing
about moving
to another country.
I know Singapore
imprisons people
for chewing gum in public,
but is that really
the worst thing?
- Or we can focus
on fixing this country
by getting people to vote.
Call me Amethyst
because tomorrow,
I'll be working the poll.
The voting poll.
- Yeah, no, we get it.
- The rest of you are still
down to watch it tomorrow?
I need to be with people.
- Of course.
- Hell yeah.
- Absolutely.
- Yes.
Also I think Jazmin's
gonna join tomorrow.
- Oh, now I've got FOMO,
but I can't cancel.
Cameron said
he's been planning this date
since the day we met.
Isn't that romantic?
- So four days.
- [chuckles]
You're funny, Ben.
- Well, I'm grateful that we're
all gonna get together tomorrow
'cause I'm gonna need
that strong friendship network
to provide the proper
emotional support
during this stressful time
in my life.
- Ben, are you dying?
- It's cancer.
It's cancer, isn't it?
- No, no, no, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I actually
started taking therapy.
- Wow.
- Oh, that's great.
- Wow, good.
- Good for you.
- That's very good.
- That's terrific, Ben.
- Seriously, I know
it's probably hard for you,
but it is so worth it.
- Do you feel
like it's helping?
- Kirby's cool.
He actually
gave me an assignment,
but it's cheesy.
He said I bottle things up
and instead I should practice
radical honesty with you guys.
It's dumb, right?
- No, not dumb at all.
- No, of course not.
- I've been radically honest
for years.
I had no idea
it was good for me.
- Do me.
Yeah, come on, do me.
- I don't really think
that's how it works.
- Come on!
First thing that pops
in your head.
Let's be radical.
- I don't feel
comfortable, like--
- That's avoidance.
You're avoiding, Ben.
I'm gonna tell
this Kirby person that Ben's--
- Okay, sometimes you're
too selfish and self-involved.
I'm sorry, um...
Yeah, that was--I'm sorry.
That was, like--
I wasn't trying to, like--
- No, no, no, it's okay.
Good note.
Just processing
the jagged, little pill,
and, ah, processed.
There, okay, see, nobody died.
Thank you for
your radical honesty, Ben.
- Really?
Oh, okay.
I also think your love
for Julianne Moore
is weird and unwarranted.
- You take that back!
That woman breathes
fire and music
into all of her roles!
- Well, I know what
you're gonna say about me--
that it's hard
to live in my shadow,
et cetera, et cetera.
- Actually, sometimes I feel
like you treat me
like a child
when you're the childish one.
- [mockingly]
Sometimes you treat me
like a child when you're the--
am I the childish one?
You know what?
I don't remember asking
to be CC'd on this email.
- Okay, I'm gonna
stop this now.
- No, this is great.
We can take it.
- Of course you
love this, Ellis.
You thrive on drama.
Janice, much?
- Are you calling me a meddler?
I am not my mother.
- I have some radical honesty.
The Clippers
should move to Seattle.
- Not the time, Garrett!
- This is a bad idea.
- Come on, these aren't
shocking revelations.
It's fine.
We're a pretty
self-aware group, right?
Be radically honest
with me, Ben.
What, hair too pink?
Clothes too weird?
Mayday Malone impression
too on point?
Come on, tell me, what do you
really think about me?
- Maybe another time.
- Intriguing.
Well, if truth court's
adjourned,
I'm gonna go look
for my non-weird outfit
for my romantic date
with Cameron tomorrow.
- Wish him luck for me.
- What does that mean?
- Nothing, I'm drunk.
- You know, schnapps
is really a sipping beverage.
Maybe try those
liqueur glasses
I got you, Ben.
- What did you mean
by that, Ben?
- Just that this poor guy
is probably killing himself
trying to impress you
when he's secretly terrified
it won't be enough,
and you know what?
It probably won't be.
- Somebody mute him!
- Him versus your expectations
is not a fair fight.
Not everyone speaks
in sonnets, Annie.
He's just a guy
doing his best.
He's not one of
your characters
from your romance novels.
- I don't need him
to be perfect, Ben!
At least I'm putting myself
out there
unlike you who's too scared
to make a move or take a leap
with anyone.
[soft beep]
- So this therapist,
would you recommend them or...
[upbeat music]
.
- Hey, I heard you blocked Ben
after our little truth circle
last night.
- Yeah, he just kept
texting me apologies,
and I just--I can't right now.
I just wanna focus on my date
with Cameron today.
- Totally.
It's election day.
Everyone is on edge.
I just snapped at Siri for
saying, "Can you repeat that?"
Bitch, hear me the first time!
However, is today
really the best day
to be severing friendships?
Like, don't we all
need each other
more than ever right now?
Can't you just unblock him
and at least hear him out?
Wait, is this meddling?
God, am I a Janice?
Damn it, Ben!
What have you wrought?
- First of all, the assignment
was to be honest about yourself
to your friends, not give them
a Comedy Central roast.
Secondly, I never said
to do it drunk.
- I needed liquid courage.
I was...
- Scared?
- Nervous.
- Look, Ben, being vulnerable
doesn't mean
shooting flaming truth arrows
at your friends.
It means taking off your armor
and setting it down.
- How can I take off my armor
if she won't let me
in the castle?
She pulled up the drawbridge.
I'm standing at a moat.
- Give her some space, okay?
Try reconnecting
with the friends
that haven't blocked you.
Look, everyone is going through
a tough time right now.
This is not the time
to give up on people.
Besides, with a friendship
and a connection
like the one that you describe
between you and Annie,
I doubt she's gonna
freeze you out forever.
- God, I hope not.
Man, I don't know if this
therapy thing's for me.
- We're supposed
to have weekly sessions.
You asked for three
in three days.
- I mean, I guess
I like some parts.
[upbeat music]
- Wow, you look great.
- You have no idea how much
I've been looking
forward to this.
So what are we doing?
- Oh, boom.
We are organizing our closets
like the Home Edit.
- [quietly]
Oh, wow.
- Yeah.
'Cause I remembered
you said on your first date
that you love that show,
and you said listening
was romantic.
- I did, I did.
I did say that.
- You hate it.
- What?
No!
No, I love it.
I have a perfectly reasonable
expectation of romance.
- What?
- This is perfect.
No, not perfect.
I don't need things
to be perfect.
I love organizing dates.
- Okay, then we'll see
what sparks joy.
- See, this can be romantic.
- What about this coaxial cable
I stole from work?
♪ ♪
- I messed up.
This therapy thing is new,
and I didn't mean
to call you childish.
- Oh, it's fine, and to be
radically honest,
I have way bigger things
to worry about.
Garrett's volunteering
at a polling place,
and we're fighting.
- Why?
- You know how I've been joking
about wanting to move
to another country?
- Yes.
Stop sending me articles
about Prince Edward Island.
I don't know what that is.
- I think I actually
wanna leave the country.
- What?
- But not Canada.
They put too many animals
on their money.
I wanna move to Portugal.
- What kind of random-ass--
- It's not random.
I've always wanted
to learn Português.
It's like Spanish
but you're drunk,
and Garrett loves oily fish.
I think we'll thrive there.
- Hi, thank you for voting.
Water?
- Garrett, back me up
on this Portugal thing.
- No, you back me up.
I think it's a ridiculous idea,
though there are
some beautiful properties
in our price range.
- What's really going on here?
- Oh, I don't know,
the election,
RBG dying, climate change,
the wildfires,
Breonna Taylor, waiting to see
if the government
takes my uterus, my brother,
or my husband first.
It's too much!
I just feel like curling up
into a ball
and hugging a stuffed animal.
I am not childish.
- Look, is America broken?
Yes.
Do I love
an oily sardinhas assada
or a caldo verde?
Of course I do.
But we can't just run away.
And what about the people
who can't leave?
We have a moral obligation
to stay and fight
to make this country
better for everybody.
- Do we though?
- It's like what you said
about me and therapy.
It's hard, it sucks,
and sometimes
I don't wanna do it,
but it's worth it.
And since when have you been
scared of a fight?
- Since I might be pregnant.
- What?
- Michelle.
- I know.
I know.
It's early.
And maybe probably nothing,
but I might be pregnant,
and I don't know
if I want to raise
a Black child
in this country.
- Is everything okay, sir?
- Hi, thank you for voting.
Do you want some water?
.
[light music]
- Michelle's pregnant?
- Yeah.
- And you're moving
to Portugal?
You know they had
a fascist dictator
well into the disco era.
- Might be pregnant.
- I'm just late
and a little hormonal
and might be moving
to Portugal.
- Not moving to Portugal.
- I would also tell you
not to move to another country,
but I don't wanna come off
as meddling.
- I am so sorry I called you
a meddling Janice.
You're not.
I think it's just the hormones.
- I thought
the pregnancy hormones
didn't kick in until later on.
- Then it's just 2020,
all right?
- Listen, I know I try
to keep things light
and I joke around or whatever,
but if I'm being
radically honest,
this year has been hard
and lonely.
I need you guys,
and I need my sister
not to move to Portugal.
I love you.
- I love you too.
- Also what's the deal
with feelings, am I right?
- Okay, Seinfeld,
what did we say about avoiding?
- Pradeep, I'm sorry
I called you selfish.
- You know, no one ever said
any mean, honest things
about me.
- You're bougie.
- You dress like a grandpa.
- The way you describe food
is so off-putting.
- You have
too many V-necks.
- Your mother makes
the worst cobbler.
- Thanks, guys.
♪ ♪
- Aw, I can't get rid of this.
- You're a little
sentimental, huh?
- No.
All this stuff is practical.
Like this old b-ball here,
it's for playing one-on-one
with the guys.
- Why is there a Post-It that
says "Aidan's ball" on it?
- Because he was
my ninth grade crush,
and I stole it from him
so I'd have
something he touched forever.
But I can still play with it.
[ball thuds]
- Is that an old Solo cup
back there?
- This is from
a keg party in college
where my freshman crush
almost kissed me.
He was emotional,
but it worked out.
We ended up having
almost sex later.
[melancholy music]
♪ ♪
Maybe today's not the day
to empty my closet.
- Let me guess--
another almost kiss?
- Yeah, almost.
- Why didn't you just kiss him?
Girls who make the first moves
are hot.
- First moves are hard.
- Not really.
All you gotta do is show up.
Did I mention I live
very nearby
and just tested COVID negative?
- Yeah, you did.
So just show up, huh?
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Have you talked to Annie?
- No, I'm giving her space.
- Space is for
insecure billionaires, Ben.
She likes you.
- She blocked me.
- I turned down your offer
of free, live-in manny services
so you two slowpokes
could finally hook up.
It cannot have been
for nothing!
- Why didn't y'all
tell me earlier?
- I don't know.
- Oh, the drama was fun.
- What took you so long?
- All that stuff I said about
Cam funk is really about me.
I'm worried
I'm not good enough.
- Hey, that's my friend Ben
you're talking about.
I'll thank you
to be nicer to him.
- Sometimes you just
gotta take a leap.
I mean, I didn't even really
have friends before you guys,
but I took a chance,
and now I do.
And then I took another chance,
and now I have a girlfriend.
- Since when?
- Shut up, Rufus.
- Who your boo?
- You do not.
- He does.
- And her name is
Ellis Dominique
Devereux Murmelstein!
- What?
- Shut up!
- Oh, my God.
- Shut up!
- I might have been
a little extra
when I was picking my new name.
- Ellis, Rufus
is your quarantine bae?
- What?
- Hey.
- Sex amigos turned official
steady romance couple.
Whoo, pew, pew, pew, pew.
- We're still working with him
on talking about
physical intimacy.
- I'm new to it, yeah.
- Well, how did
all this happen?
- Well, I can't not have sex
obviously for all the reasons,
and I was talking to Rufus
about how I wanted
to go and find a COVID-safe
internet hookup.
- And I told her that was
a contradiction in terms.
She should find someone
that she knew she could trust.
- And so he offered
to come over
and platonically help me
fulfill my needs.
- And that proved to be
almost immediately impossible,
and we fell in love.
- Oh, well, like.
Like a deep like.
- I'm really happy for you two.
- Ben, you know, you can
call her and leave a voicemail.
It'll show up
in her blocked calls folder.
She'll find it
if she's looking.
- I can't believe I'm taking
relationship advice
from Rufus.
- Believe it, Ben.
Miracles happen.
- The assignment
was radical honesty, right?
So do your homework.
♪ ♪
[line ringing]
- [sighs]
[phone beeps]
Hey, Annie, you were right.
I was scared.
That day at Willis Tower,
you and me,
those weren't muscle shadows.
That was--I was terrified.
I needed to hold your hand
as much as you needed mine,
but when we looked down
at that city together,
I knew it would be okay
because I was with you.
Truth is, I've had
feelings for you
for a long time,
and that scares me
a hell of a lot more
than any heights.
I--it's hard for me
to be vulnerable,
so I work my ass off not to be,
but I don't know
if that's working out for me.
This insane election,
this whole year
has terrified me,
but nothing scares me more
than the idea
of not having you in my life.
I love you.
Kind of feel
like I just sent a telegram
to the bottom of the ocean,
but at least I sent it, right?
I know you might not get this,
and I know it might be
too late...
But at least I tried.
Your friend, Ben.
[tender music]
[sighs]
.
[upbeat music]
- Jazmin!
- Jazmin.
- Hi.
What is going on?
What have I missed?
- Well, I started my own
hand sanitizer business.
- And he hasn't gotten
reported yet.
- Pradeep yelled at
a food delivery person.
- Okay, not my best moment.
- Oh, Garrett got arrested.
- For like five minutes.
- Oh, and Ben got
a stomachache
and then started therapy.
- That's a gross
oversimplification.
- Michelle might be pregnant
and moving to Portugal
with Garrett.
- Might be.
- We are not moving.
- And Ellis is dating Rufus.
How crazy is that?
- I know, right?
- It's not that crazy.
- And Ben finally knows
that Annie had feelings for him
back in March.
- What?
Amazing, and also
I knew all that.
Ellis sends daily texts.
- I knew it.
- Ellis!
- I don't thrive on drama.
I just like to keep
people informed.
- I meant--
what have I missed tonight?
- Well, I finally told Annie
how I feel about her.
- [gasps]
- What?
- Oh, love wins!
- What?
- In a voicemail
she probably won't get.
- Right.
- Oh.
- Less incredible.
- All right.
- Bannie.
- Anyway, forget that.
Jazmin, how are you?
- Better.
Things are better
here in New York,
but still not great.
I'm still self-isolating
from my family.
I'm still pulling crazy hours
at the hospital,
and, I'm sorry, Portugal?
You cannot move
to Portugal, Michelle.
- Thank you.
- You know what I love
about you guys?
You are always there
for each other
or as there as you can be,
and Portugal
is not as there as you can be.
- Michelle,
I know it'll be hard
to raise a Black kid
in this country.
We know better
than anyone.
Is this country racist--
like deeply racist?
Yes.
But there's racism everywhere,
even in Portugal,
and probably racism
you won't even understand yet.
Don't go across the globe
looking for new racism.
Stick to the rivers
and the racism you know.
You can't leave the only home
we've ever known.
You can't leave your family.
- And when Ben says family,
I'm inserting me
and the rest of us too.
We're your family.
We need you, and you need us.
- Absolutely.
- 100%.
- Okay, fine.
You convinced me.
We'll stay for now.
- Yeah.
- Jazmin convinced me.
- Yay!
- Wait, Jazmin?
- I knew you weren't leaving.
- I have been making
amazing arguments all day.
- Yeah, but she's a doctor.
When she says things,
they just sound true.
- Yeah.
- Okay, guys, listen.
We will not only survive this.
We will rise out of it
and become something stronger
because we have to.
[knocking on door]
- Um, somebody's at my door.
You got my message.
- I--
[chuckles]
What message?
- Then what are you doing here?
- I'm showing up
at your door.
You mind if I come in?
- Yeah.
- Annie?
- It's Annie!
- Bannie.
- Annie, you are just in time.
- All right, the results
are starting to come in.
Buckle up, everyone.
["This Land Is Your Land"]
- This isn't over.
No matter what happens,
our fight has just begun.
♪ ♪
- We're gonna be okay.
We're gonna get
through this together.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Nobody living ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Can ever stop me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ 'Cause I go walking ♪
♪ ♪
♪ My freedom highway ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Nobody living ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Can make me turn back ♪
♪ ♪
♪ This land was made
for you and me ♪
♪ ♪