The only thing, though, is that while I loved her random dog-walking-turned-dog-napping, the bartender and his wife have all the makings of being cliche-ridden drags. ![]() ![]() Fanny’s friends (including a found object artist that focuses on nudes) help to make her character a little more well-rounded, while using a walk Michelle took was a fairly clever way to get her out on her own and interacting with people other than Fanny or the girls. “For Fanny” was the first time that we got a look at the townspeople of Paradise, California, as well, and it turned out to be a fairly promising look, at that. If the fight that she had with Michelle, a brief yet extremely powerful confrontation from two extremely sad, desperate people, is any indication, having to be constantly around one another should both remind them of Hubbell and help them move on from the tragedy. Kelly Bishop, in particular, stepped her game up in the episode, every bit of her screentime containing an underlying heartbreak through her manic disposition and increasingly outlandish memorial requests until she finally crumbles under the weight of her grief. You kind of want the two to work things out and come together for the sake of their individual healing, but the characters have such a great push-pull to them that watching them spar for the next several episodes should be a nice source of fun in the sadness. By the end of the episode, the two seemed to be on the road to a positive relationship, but this will certainly drive them that much further apart rather than putting Michelle into another residence, Bunheads is keeping the former Vegas girl in Paradise and pushing up against her former mother-in-law, the mother-in-law that still hasn’t 100% accepted her and the mother-in-law that hasn’t tried to be there for her after the loss of Hubbell. Fortunately, the young cast seems well-equipped to bring the meaning and resonance out of each major dance they do and the longer the show goes on, the more the characters will grow and the more their dancing will grow as a result.Īdditionally, “For Fanny” answered the question about how the show is going to keep Michelle and Fanny in one another’s orbit, bringing out Hubbell’s poker buddy/lawyer to reveal that the dearly departed signed over everything he had to his wife. I don’t want Bunheads to turn into a ballet and skimp on the story or anything, but if you’re going to make a show about dancers, they’re going to have to take the stage once in a while and they’re going to have to be believable at what they do. The perfectly placed routine allowed the abilities of the girls to be shown rather than merely hinted at or alluded to, which is a good sign going forward. Tender, elegant, and simply gorgeous to behold, it was the emotional release that “For Fanny” needed to wind down after nearly 42 minutes of pain, grief, and isolation. After a weary episode that saw Fanny doing her damndest not to break and Michelle feeling more alone than ever, the show punctuated its second outing with a routine from the girls at Hubbell’s memorial service and it absolutely shined. Bunheads exceeded my expectations in “For Fanny”, confirming organized dance as being one of the many weapons in its storytelling arsenal.
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