Grace and Frankie Recap: Drunk Melon

Jane Fonda as Grace.

Jane Fonda as Grace. Photo: Melissa Moseley/Netflix

Early in the morning time, Frankie wakes up to do a ceremonial dance, burn down her vagina paintings, and roast marshmallows. What a way to start the solar day.

When she ambles dorsum to the beach business firm, cleansed of her corporate flop, she sees her dear friend Baby looting her house with a piddling reddish railroad vehicle. Infant thought Frankie was having a burn down sale, and then she helped herself to some dream catchers and all-flavor decorative gourds. Information technology'due south been so long since Frankie has seen Infant, and she catches her up about the goings-on of the past few months. The about shocking thing? Grace and Frankie are living together. She invites Babe over, and they giggle almost how she hated Grace. Babe tells Frankie she's going to have one of her famous parties — a party to end all parties. The monkey who picks pockets won't exist attending, only it'll be lit anyway.

Robert and Sol arrive at Sol's flat, and Robert says that at this bespeak in the nighttime Sol should ask him to come. He doesn't want Sol to know he's easy. When we see Sol and Robert the next morning time, it's clear that Robert might have been a little like shooting fish in a barrel. In the harsh lite of day, we can also see but how terrible Sol'south apartment is. The street is noisy, and information technology gets no morning sun! (It'southward funny to find out what a rich person's version of a terrible flat looks like.) Robert asks why Sol didn't discover a better flat. Sol thought this was what he deserved, if but so Robert will never doubt how sad Sol was over the whole ordeal. The ability of shitty apartments.

Grace wakes upward hung-over and immediately goes to the freezer to take hold of her trusty bottle of vodka. While cutting fruit for her dejeuner with Jacob, Bud, and Coyote, Frankie realizes that this is the perfect time to commencement her patented three-pace emotional healing system! Step i: Talk about it! Grace just wants to drink her feelings abroad like the good WASP she is, and then Frankie tries to sweeten the deal with watermelon, which is "basically celery in a Lilly Pulitzer dress." I'm getting that tattooed on my stomach. Information technology's my "THUG LIFE."

Too bad Grace merely wants to lie in bed and watch terrible people buy tiny houses. Same, bitch. She cuts open the watermelon, empties her vodka canteen into it, then takes it up to her room to "marinate." Later taking a walk, Grace ends upwardly with that Angry Lady Bartender in the center of the morning, drunkard off martinis.

Bud and Coyote came to the embankment business firm with store-bought deodorant for Frankie, who rushes in, asking nearly her outfit and how to wear her hair. She puts the deodorant on her wrists and hands, then flits back out. Coyote is stunned that she's actually nervous to run into a man who isn't their father or Art Garfunkel. Bud is immediately suspicious. Jacob could be all sizzle and jazz and braiding garlic with someone else on the side. When he arrives, Coyote immediately thinks that he'south a good man, only Bud isn't and so convinced. He launches into an interrogation (but don't call it that) about Jacob'south marriage, his yields, and whether or not he has a love child with Cher. Bud is merely worried that someone might hurt Frankie again. He thought his father was the nicest man on the planet, but he did what he did. Frankie tells him not to worry about her.

Meanwhile, Robert and Sol share a sweet breakfast of Special K for a special moment when loud music starts to bump from the neighboring apartment. Robert makes the well-nigh of the break and asks Sol to irksome-dance. Somewhere much less romantic, Grace is playing darts with Workers' Comp and Abandoned Hubby, ii other weirdos who are drinking in the center of day. Angry Lady Bartender cuts Grace off, just Grace asks Abandoned Husband to lift her upwards so she can ring the "shots for everybody" bell hanging over the bar. Of course, she likewise starts to make out with him. Angry Lady Bartender drags her out, but she doesn't desire to go home because they make you lot talk about feelings there. Grace's final parting shot? She tells Aroused Lady Bartender that her martinis aren't the best in town. That honor goes to the Cheesecake Factory. Damn, that's common cold.

Grace stumbles back to the beach firm and starts drinking out of the sink. When she ambles to the tabular array where Frankie, Bud, Coyote, and Jacob are finally getting along, she can't control herself and starts eating cake with her hands. Grace is ready to purge her feelings. She thinks Frankie bullied her into reconnecting with Phil and feeling her feelings. Everything Frankie touches is a failure, Graces says, so she doesn't even intendance when her friend fails. Grace says she was better off without Frankie. Whoa. Jacob picks Grace upwards, carries her outside, and drops her on a patio chair to sleep it off.

Sol and Robert are back at Chez Solbert and they realize that their firm is too full of bad memories: Robert's center attack, Sol well-nigh getting dilapidated with a plunger, their relationship almost being discovered because of an illicit osculation on Y2K. Robert thinks it's time for them to detect a place that can be their own.

Later on that nighttime, Grace wakes upwardly on the patio and goes off in search of her alcohol. Frankie has thrown out every last canteen. The ones in the freezer. The hugger-mugger kayak stash. The one subconscious in the craft bin. All of it. So Grace steels herself to drive to the liquor store in sunglasses. She's so sloppy that her purse spills out and she leaves her car keys on the seat.

Frankie is out with Babe buying party supplies — like a cross-eyed bear piñata and paper flowers — when she finally asks what the theme of the political party volition be. A sugariness sixteen for her breast reduction, perhaps? Babe tells her that she's known the theme all along: a political party to end all parties. It'due south a bon voyage … for her life … forever. And Babe needs Frankie's help to do it.

Inside the liquor store, Grace realizes that she can only buy tiny airplane bottles, and so she fills a paper purse with them. When she walks back to the parking lot, she realizes two dudes take made off with her car. Yes, that'due south what happens when y'all get out a car on, unlocked, with your purse inside. She's basically Cher in Clueless with a ruined Alaïa. She calls Frankie for assist. Unfortunately, Frankie isn't taking her calls right now.

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