This is one of my absolute favorite episodes. Helen grudgingly goes to Joshua Tree with Sierra for a moon circle, during which she lays some much-needed late forty-something wisdom (which includes Mary Oliver) on a group of twenty-something women. She tells them to essentially calm down with all of the truth-seeking practices they are engaging in, (which seem to be total BS to the group's alleged "guru," when later in the episode she seems to be a sham and nothing more than a drug-snorting party girl) and just live their lives and make choices and learn from their mistakes. She is encouraging, life-affirming and powerful.
And then later in the episode Helen gets to lay Vik's cancer diagnosis on Noah and pull him out of yet another man-baby tantrum. The mystery of Alison's disappearance, which has been hinted at since the premiere, comes closer to its devastating conclusion, but to me, Helen rules the universe in this episode.
And then later in the episode Helen gets to lay Vik's cancer diagnosis on Noah and pull him out of yet another man-baby tantrum. The mystery of Alison's disappearance, which has been hinted at since the premiere, comes closer to its devastating conclusion, but to me, Helen rules the universe in this episode.
