- The audience ratings for 'Pucks' are continuing to fall and Sean - who now has his own Facebook page - and Beverly are told by the network that the scripts should be less about Matt and more about the boys in the team. This enrages Matt,who gets drunk and threatens to both leave the show and tell Merc of his affair with Jamie. However,at Beverly's request,he holds back on both of his threats.—don @ minifie-1
- Sean and Beverly envy gay ex-PR-colleague Andrew Lesley's steep rise in Hollywood, even to directing, and reluctantly follow studio instructions to shift plot emphasis to the hockey boys, a desperate attempt to counter pucks' plummeting ratings. Matt bitterly finds out he, although the show's only star, is about to lose his lead status. Sean stops him from drunk foolishness, just as telling Merc about his wife's adultery, Merc gets a chance to clarify the real options: bend to Andrew's last chance ideas or see the show canceled.—KGF Vissers
- Carol goes into Merc's office and he tells her to come in to the bathroom. He's sitting on the toilet looking at the ratings.
All his new shows are tanking.
He compares the ratings to 9/11. She tells him it's no better than his Holocaust analogy. She assures him they'll be on top again. She comforts him as he continues pooping.
On the set, Sean mentions to Matt that a woman friended him on Facebook. It's his stalker, Labia.
They head to their pitch meeting with Carol, Myra and Andy.
They start with getting stuck in a blizzard and Carol hijacks it into the boys taking the truck for a joyride.
Beverly and Sean realize something is up.
Carol tells them it's time to start worrying about the ratings. The core teenage audience is reacting to Stoke, even though he's mostly hair.
They suggest skewing the focus to the boys and away from Matt and Morning.
At the table read, Matt realizes he's away at a coaches' conference all weekend. He flips through the script looking for lines. He and Morning don't have any.
After, Sean and Beverly brace themselves for talking to Matt. He doesn't speak from pages 3 to 24. Beverly tells him the episode is working and they don't want to dismantle it. They fail to reassure him he'll be in next week's episode. He thinks it's revenge for their triangle.
But Beverly blurts it's coming from the network. He remains calm, pointing out he doesn't need to watch other people act and he's the only one anyone's heard of. "I'm not good enough for this piece of s--- show?" he asks. Matt vows to fight it.
Carol shows up at Beverly's house bearing joints and salads. Beverly busts her for turning into "work Carol" when she says the changes are for the good of the show. She becomes brutally pleasant.
Beverly says things are normal with Sean, but she misses talking to him. Carol offers to show her Sean's Facebook page. He has 137 friends including an old girlfriend. Beverly wants to see his relationship status. It says "it's complicated."
At work, Morning gives Sean an belated birthday present -- an engraved pen that says "YCOMT:" "You Came on My T--s." She hopes he'll think of her when he's writing next week's script.
Matt and Merc get lunch. Merc says they're trying to help the show, by listening to the research. Matt says he only came back because Merc asks him as a personal favor, saying the network needed him. Merc asks him if he wants to be one of the actors on a show that's on the air, or the star of something that gets canceled.
Matt calls Sean drunk from a bar saying he's going to call Merc and quit the show and tell him he's sleeping with his wife. Sean finds out where he is and calls Beverly.
Sean finds Matt at the bar, telling him people don't hire people who quit. A guy interrupts for an autograph. Sean lends Matt his pen and Matt immediately guesses what the abbreviation is for. Beverly joins them. Sean goes to get them drinks. Beverly tells Matt he can't quit, that as long as she and Sean are in the U.S. she still has a chance with him. They run into their old PA Andrew, who's a big time screen writer. He says he saw their show. That's all he says.
"We're pleased with it," Beverly says.
"That's nice," Andrew says.
"I'm gonna hit him," Matt says.
The next day they wrap shooting at an ice rink. Matt has booked it for everyone to stay and skate. Sean talks Beverly into staying.
Beverly clings to the wall, not seeing the appeal of trying to skate on a floor made of ice on shoes with knives strapped to the bottom of her feet.
Sean gently peels her off the wall and gets her going. He holds on to her, supporting her across the ice. She leans back into his arms and shuts her eyes, completely relaxed as Matt watches, approvingly.
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