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Expats Recap: Days of Being Riled
An anxiety-inducing episode with no exit.
A key shot last week, in which she carefully applies her makeup in order to prepare for party guests (from whom she hides her crumbling marriage), ends up recontextualized in devastating fashion when Hilary decides to bite back at Brinder with a story of her own. “But I know them.” In order to find momentary respite from these rules once they return to safety, Hilary throws open all the windows of her apartment during a downpour as her mother yells at her in the background, letting in the purifying rain as the sound of Brinder’s voice is finally drowned out. Mercy’s cramped and tiny apartment is the venue for this subplot, a constant reminder that she doesn’t have a life together, while David is forced to consider the possibility that he isn’t infertile after all, and that Hilary may have been lying to him (it’s revealed, in an earlier episode, that she’s secretly back on birth control).
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