01x05 - Sort Of A Party

[bunniefuu]

I lined up a dream apartment
in the q*eer dreamland

we always dreamed of queering in

and you took a dump on that dream.

Bessy is important to me.

Now she is in a coma.

I can't argue with kids
and a coma mummy.

So now I have to move to
another country alone.

Violet punched one of her classmates
in the "va-ginal" region.

I pushed her in the "vaginal" region.

You don't want to talk about anything!
Just like Dad.

Did she ever mention
a friend named Penny?

Um, no.

He called it "an emotional affair".

I seriously wish they were just f*cking.

Why are you weird?

Am I?

Yeah.

I'd like to try to make my hours work.

Do you think you can handle it
with everything that's on your plate?

Whoa, I've never seen a kid fight
with a teacher like that before.

I can't believe he gave me an F.
Said you had a lighter?

Butane.

Why do you have this, by the way?

I totally use it responsibly.

What is happening?

What is happening?

Sick!
Totally looks like a Picasso.

Oh, no!

Oh, my gosh!

Fire, people!

Fire!

You're gonna go to jail!

Are you insane?

♪ Honey boo ♪

♪ Honey boo ♪

I'm so sorry about
the last minute cancellation.

Uh, school emergency.

Thank you.

Yes, I... I will call back later to, uh,
to reschedule.

What happened?

Violet lit a Picasso on fire.

You can wait in my office
until your father gets here.

Very nice to meet you, Sabi.

Typically this is expulsion territory

but in light of
the recent situation in Violet's life

I'm prepared to recommend
suspension.

Thank you.
- If you agree to send Violet

to a board-approved child psychologist.

Totally.

What?

She definitely needs
a professional to talk to.

I don't need a therapist.

Babe, you, um,
lit your schoolwork on fire.

I didn't think
it was fair that the whole class

had to paint the same
stupid still-life of an apple.

So I did a cubist take.

What I did was self-expression,
which is the basis of art.

And then my art teacher
fails me for that?

Like, why am I in the wrong here?

Sometimes it's just easier
to follow the rules

which is stupid, I know.

It's not like I mutilated a guinea pig

or something you should
actually be worried about.

Why would she even think that?

You lit your schoolwork on fire.

What is that?

It's that fruit leathery stuff they like.

Sugar right after school.
What are you thinking?

They always have this.

Does your mum know?

Uh, yeah.

She thinks sugar's evil.

Hey!
— There's 12% real juice in that.

Oh, my God.

Shame-eating. Upstairs.

Go.
- Yay, shame!

I live for shame.
- Go, Henry.

Alright, fast, let's go, it's a race!
Come on.

Violet, you're gonna win,
you're gonna win!

Hey, look, so

there's, like, no shame
in seeing a therapist, Vi

especially when life is, like, beyond.

What about you, Henry?
Would you like to see someone?

Sure.

Are you seeing a therapist, Sabi?

Oh, my God, I don't, like...

Hey, uh, what should we do
to take our minds off stuff?

Oh, hey, let's see how 7ven
is doing in ze fatherland.

Look.
There we are, look.

She's, like, fully touristing out.

7ven's like the coolest person I know.

Oh, my God,
that does not make me jealous at all.

I'd think you were cool too
if you went abroad with her.

Abroad? Fancy.

I could have gone if I wanted to.

Oh, my gosh, why didn't you?

I had my reasons.

I'm not saying you shouldn't feel
what you're feeling.

I'm saying you don't have to talk about it.

I'm cheating on Paul!
I'm a horrible person.

In some relationships,
that wouldn't be considered cheating

that would just be, like, normal.

Yeah, but you have to tell
the other person though.

Uh, that's true.

What I like to do is
I put my difficult feelings

in a special little box in my brain

and I close it up nice and tight

and I don't open it ever,
and then I talk about stupid stuff.

Oh.

["I Think I Love You"
by g*y Hollywood]

Rum and Red Bull, per favore.
Grazie, prego.

Wait, what?

Rum and Red Bull.

What are you doing in Canada?

What is anybody doing in Canada?
I quit the Mein Art Kampf.

You quit?

The whole job entailed getting
terrified white people coffee.

There was barely any, quote, "curating".

Wait...
— Also I had a threesome with my boss

which wasn't the best thing
to do, I guess, politically.

Hey, fetuses.

Wait... why aren't you in Berlin?

I am in Berlin,
I'm just astral projecting.

You seem real.

Anyway, I wanted to get
the young people's take

on an idea I have for the 19th
anniversary of the bar opening.

Here it comes.

Gender bendy Angels in America.

Please, no.
- What?

You've cancelled Angels in America?

You've heard of A*DS, right?
- Deenzie, do something cool and fun.

Not old and faggy.

Performance art or drag high-tea.

Oh, my God, yeah.
Like royal sip—and-spill.

Mandatory that everyone drags up
as a royal king or queen.

Yes.

White q*eers are stupid nuts
for high—tea and colonization.

Yeah, I do love it.

Not colonization.
- Mm-hmm.

Um, you forget?
Shortcut's this way through the alley.

Nah, let's kick it on the street.

I want to take in the beauty
of our world-class city at night.

Hey, you OK?

Yeah, I'm fine.

So, you sat at the bar for three hours

I haven't seen you sit anywhere
for more than 15 minutes.

I'm embracing failure.

I'm blessed to be free
of Western notions of success.

I'm ready to be not so work-driven.

When were you ever work-driven?

So how are you?
Awkward deflection.

Oh gosh, the kids are good, surprisingly.

Violet's birthday is coming up
and it's gonna be weird

cos Bessy's in the hospital.

I just asked you how you are

and you answered by telling me
how your Kids are.

f*cking Stepford wife.
— Totally. I'm totally Nicole Kidman.

♪ I saw the end of the road ♪

♪ But I thought that
we would never go home ♪

Paul, Violet's father is a therapist, too

and had appointments all day,
so he couldn't bring her.

And you're... Fabi?

Sabi, the nanny.

OK. Interesting.

Isn't it?

How does it make you feel

to think of your mum not being conscious?

Sad.

Have you talked
to anyone about your sadness?

Nope.

No one in your family?

No.
- Friends?

No.

Have you been to visit
your mum in the hospital?

No.

Are you afraid
that visiting her might make you cry?

Not really.

Have you cried since your mum...

went into the hospital?
— No.

I... I wonder if, for our next session

if you could bring something in
that belongs to your mum

something that reminds you of her.

I have to come back?

It would be good to find a way
for her to express how she's feeling.

Drawing pictures, journaling.

Sometimes girls like to dress up.

Do they?

Well, what do you actually want?

I don't really know what I want.

You know, you're totally
allowed to ignore it

if you don't wanna have a party.

Parents don't always know
what's best for us.

Sometimes we know what's best for us.

What are you guys talking about?

Violet thinks she might not wanna have
a party for her birthday.

Well, I've already sent out the invites.

You what?

We talked about this.

You said you wanted a neon theme.

Well, nobody's coming,
cos they would've mentioned it at school.

Violet.

Your mum would want you to have a party.
- Whatever, Dad.

You need to stop.

I... I do?

Stop making parenting calls
without checking with me.

I'm sorry. I just...

I have a patient waiting downstairs.

Hi.

Hi.

Mm.

Mm...

I know how you feel.

My mum assumes things about me
and what I might want all the time.

Am I, like...

a bad person?

Cos I haven't cried about her yet?

No, Vi, definitely not.

Just cos you haven't cried,
it doesn't mean you don't, like...

um, love her.

Not to be rude,
but I kinda don't want to talk anymore.

Cool.

Call 7ven.

Yo, king.

Yes, queen?

Yeah, I have to work
for a bit and I have the kids.

Are you asking me
to help you with children?

Sex is complicated.

It can help you process emotions,
but often it can help you run away.

Is that what I'm doing?
Running away from big emotions?

It's amazing how far we'll go
not to feel our feelings.

OK, wow.
This is kinda cool.

Like, you two in this space is so wild.

Don't embarrass me though.
Try and blend in.

Which means Henry, don't look so butch.

I'm kidding.

OK, um, so what can I get you,
little mortals? Anything you want?

Cappuccino.

I'm not getting you a cappuccino.

Sparkling Lemony.

I'll have a scone.

Hi.

It gives me anxiety when children
have unrealistic expectations of me.

Violet's totally crushing on you.
You can do no wrong.

You're lucky I love you.

Aren't you supposed to be abroad?

Abroad?

Fancy.

No, I left, cos I'm a failure.

I failed art.
- I failed art, too.

Violet lit a Picasso on fire.

What? That's awesome.

Picasso's a misogynist piece of sh*t.

What's a misogynist?

Why a lion?

You told me to bring something
that belongs to my mum.

She has, like, this whole,
like, little lion collection.

I collect elephants.

They're amazing.

They mourn their dead.

They create graveyards—-
- My mum's not dead.

I didn't say she was.

I was just sharing with you something...

Right.

What up? Hey, folks!

Shotgun!
- Of course!

["Abstractly Trap" by Mighty Haviah]

♪ Big black hoodie
with the thick sewed dots ♪

♪ Big fat cherry
said the chick's so sauce ♪

How was therapy?

Stupid.

I hate therapy.
It sucks a*s.

Therapy's for people
who don't have friends

or access to mushrooms.

Therapy actually helps a lot of people,
and, Violet, don't do mushrooms.

But I have no friends.

Babe.

Technically, I'm 100
different people in the same body

so you have tons of friends.

When I need to process heavy stuff

I talk to the people
who actually care about me.

Not somebody I pay to care about me.

Like, when bad stuff happens...

See, like...

I was kind of followed in Berlin.

Like, at night. Late.

And I honestly thought
I was gonna be m*rder*d for real.

Sorry, that was intense.
My point is that I did not...

I did not talk to a professional.
I'm talking to my friends

I'm talking to you guys right now.
- Mm-hmm.

♪ Oh, assuming you glide with me... ♪

Oh, yeah!

Woo-wee! Uh!

♪ You got me gassed up ♪

♪ Like it was Esso, oh, oh ♪

♪ You make me tick, tick,
tick, tick, tick, tick ♪

♪ God damn you dirty, you dirty, baby ♪

Hey. You're being really great.
You know, for Violet?

Whatever, she's rad.
She deserves me.

Sorry for getting cray in front of her.

What happened?

It was after a gallery show,
a couple of big scary dudes

they followed me for ten blocks.

Made me realise I knew no one
in this totally foreign city

and I had nowhere to go to feel safe,
and I mean, look at me

I'm a gorgeous target.

I just kept thinking, like,
"This is the end."

You know, weirdly, I thought of you

and how you stayed home
to help these people.

And I thought you were such a coward

but now I want to be just like you.
- Oh, my God, no, whatever.

Anyway, I made it home safe,
but I stopped sleeping after that

and it got way too hard to stay.
- Hey, you, uh

you know I'm here for you, right?
Like, for anything.

Well, I don't want to be alone tonight

and my folks are out of town, so...

maybe, like, sleepover?

Playdate and a sleepover?

Ew! Was that sexual?

No.
Why would that be sexual?

OK, don't get too close to me.
- OK, sorry.

Everything OK?

Uh... about her birthday.

Um, put yourself in her shoes, right?

She's like, this kid whose mum
suddenly went away, and...

maybe she doesn't really know
how to deal with how she's feeling

and is kind of maybe afraid
of feeling anything at this point.

Well, I just want her to celebrate herself.

What's she like in the hospital?

What does she look like?

Kind of like Doctor Octopus in a way

cos she's got all these tubes
and things sticking out of her.

Hi!
- Where the party at?

Oo-wee.

Where is everyone?

I can't believe this.
What's wrong with people

that they bail on a kid's
birthday party at the last minute?

I told you, no one wants to come
to suspended pyro girl's house.

Thanks for the reminder
that I don't have any friends.

Don't be ridiculous, you have friends.
This is about the parents, not the kids.

Don't call me ridiculous,
you misogynist.

- Oh, snap.
- Misogynist?

Did you call me that in front of her?

No.

Fine, you want a party?

Let's have a party,
cos Father wants a party!

Hey. OK, Vi.

I'm just so amazing, and so happy right now!
- OK, Vi.

I'm doing the best I can!

Well, do better!

Oh, you're having one of
your stress bleeds again.

["Thirst" by Saye Skye]
♪ Come on ♪

Hey, um, I have an idea.

Vi, I... I totally get you not
wanting to have your own party

but what would you say about
going to someone else's party?

Party time!
- Violet, look at that.

♪ Shake it ♪

♪ Shake it ♪

Are you ready?

Just out of here.
That's good, that's good.

Come on, let's go.

Whoa, you guys look insane!

You have a big head.
I've got a big wig.

["Davva" by Saye Skye]

Hey!

Hey, hey! Oh!

Hey!

Oh, my God, look at us!

You look fabulous, oh my gosh...

♪ And I'm not thinking through the night ♪

♪ I'm just living, living, living ♪

♪ Can I chill with you tonight? ♪

♪ Cos I didn't have a good day ♪

♪ Just get me through the night ♪

♪ Just get me through the night ♪

♪ Just get me through the night ♪

♪ Just get me through the night ♪