![]() Like I had to look around my living room to see if anyone else caught that swag (my living room is empty, but you know what I mean). He tells Jessie to watch out because he’s “pretty fucking good at laser tag.” Now, at face value, a sentence like that from a grown man should probably be a real turn-off, but Nikesh Patel makes it work. He’s much more cool and confident than we’ve seen from him in a while. He can see she doesn’t look happy.Īt laser tag, Tom decides to test the waters. ![]() Tom is loath to take advice from Joe after the last time he listened to him, but he can see Jessie trying to squirm her way out of conversations with Ben. Meanwhile, Tom is paired up with Joe, who tells him that Jessie misses him and just by being here it must mean that Tom misses her, too. And don’t think it is any kind of coincidence that it is here, in this moment, that Ben suddenly wants to talk about “where this thing might go.” Jessie is interested in exactly none of it. He does it here, too, remarking about how weird it is that Tom is here and asking if he knows that they’re an “us” now, to which Jessie shuts down right away. Ben is a manipulator, and he’s been trying to sow doubts in Jessie’s head about Tom since he first came back in her life. ![]() On the mini-golf course, Jessie spends most of the time agitated by Ben, who is clearly threatened by the appearance of Tom Kapoor, movie star. There is some awkwardness and tension between them on the bus, and we only watch it grow as we hit each stop of the party. I mean, yes, technically that is true - Steve even hands over his “groom” sash for Tom to wear because there aren’t any other sashes and he wants him to have something The gaggle of friends on this show remains such a bright spot - but come on, we all know there is more to Jessie wanting Tom to stay than that. “It’ll mean a lot to Steve,” Jessie says. He didn’t realize Steve wasn’t going to tell her and offers to leave if this is too weird, but Jessie tells him to stay. Jessie stays on the bus to pull herself together before going inside, but Tom hops on to say hi. He better be so freaking good in bed (you know he’s mediocre at best). Steve invited him! Many blessings to Steve! And absolutely zero to Ben, who makes a childish little “I can’t wait to meet him” remark before leaving. But then something quite unexpected happens: The bus pulls up to the first stop - mini-golf (kill me, please) - and Tom Kapoor is waiting outside. You can see right there how this day could end, with Jessie giving up her resolve and hooking up with her ex-and-sort-of-now just because, well, she seems to be a glutton for pain. It’s not surprising for two reasons: 1) During that entire breakup fight, you could see on her face that she didn’t want to end things but couldn’t help but to dig in, and 2) Well, Ben’s a dick who wants to be sleeping with him when you could be with Tom Kapoor? On the party bus, he keeps needling Jessie about whether or not they’re going to have sex later as she shuts him down, calling it a mistake - although a mistake she has apparently made several times over the last three months. ![]() ![]() Perhaps that could be because she’s sleeping around with Ben when she is still very much in love with Tom. It’s three months after Jessie and Tom’s breakup, three months after Jessie lied about seeing Ben, three months after Tom told Jessie that she’s “hard to love.” The wounds are certainly still fresh over here for me personally, and from the look on Jessie’s face as she embarks on Steve and Sarah’s joint stag/hen party (well, technically, it’s their pre-stag/hen party with just the friends they’ve deemed “liabilities”), she seems pretty miserable. ![]()
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