Ron Does Stuff

I’m getting back into the swing of things again after an absolutely hectic week of work so let me get back to watching these queer British teenagers!

In the last episode, Nick and Charlie sorta kinda make it official between the two of them and at the start of this episode Nick and Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman are looking through movies that the couple can watch. And isn’t it ~funny~ how the only films available to these two your queer Brits are sad ones? Or at the very least, bittersweet? Also apparently I misunderstood because Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman is actually looking for a film she can watch with Nick while Nick is looking at LGBTQIA+ films to watch with Charlie.

Nick and his mom end up watching Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Nick realizes that maybe the reason he wanted to watch this all the time when he was 11 was because he liked both Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom. I mean who can blame him? Anyways, Nick googles bisexuality and is led to a bisexual coming out video.

Over at the girl’s school, Tara has decided to make her relationship Instagram-official while Elle finally fesses up to her crush on Tao, who she thinks is not into her at all. The audience knows he is, but Tao is currently having to deal with Harry being a dick to him and not in a nice way.

Tara is also having to deal with disgusting heterosexual men on her Instagram account who keep telling her that she’s too pretty to be a lesbian. Darcy immediately notices that something is off but band rehearsal gets in the way before she can dig in any further. The girls in the school are also disgusting, sprinkling a little bit of homophobia at the couple.

Elsewhere in Kent, Nick is curious about how Charlie first found out he was gay and just like most gay guys, you just know. There’s no one point that you can narrow down. It’s just things piling on top of each other as you grow up. Nick still isn’t sure if he’s bisexual and is still not brave enough to be seen as not straight in public and my goodness is this going to be the bisexual coming out episode? Should I keep a tissue with me?

Back in school, Nick takes Charlie to band practice and runs into Tara, who is sniffing around and trying to figure out if Nick and Charlie are a thing. Nick makes it easy for her though, telling her outright that he’s going out with Charlie and asking her not to tell anybody about it. Nick, Tara, and Darcu also have a productive conversation during lunch, although the specter of a Harry/Tao fight is looming in the distance as they continue to trade barbs at one another.

After school, Nick is over at Charlie’s house and what should have been homework turns out to be floorwork because these horny teenagers are rolling all over the floor making out. I’d tell them to get a room but they’re already in one! After making out, Nick tells Charlie that Tara and Darcy want to go on a double date with them and as The Meddling Gays™ talk in their group chat later that night they decide to rope in Tao and Elle as well.

Tao and Elle do make an appearance at the date of The Meddling Gays™ but Elle immediately sees through Darcy’s frankly unsubtle way of bringing the two of them together. Elle says she’s not looking to change the dynamic between her and Tao just yet because she’s had so much change happen to her lately and Tara agreeing with her slightly puts a wedge between her and Darcy.

Fortunately, Nick accidentally turns things around by telling Elle that he and Charlie are dating, distracting her from being mad at the four of them for setting this up in the first place. However, the new issue is now Tao, who’s the only one of the friend group who doesn’t know the real deal.

Back at the school for the recital, Tara storms off because of some nasty heterosexual women who think looking at her is going to result in them catching “the lesbian disease” and I think that maybe sometimes, violence is the answer. Tara and Darcy have a heart to heart in the same room where they were first locked in when they first started making out and I blame the fandom for not being loud about this scene as they were about the bisexual coming out scene because Tara’s admission is heartbreaking.