Honestly!Īlex is a person in a position of power and privilege who was friends with someone who didn't hurt her but hurt a lot of other people, and when that came out, she felt more concerned about how it was going to reflect on her and inconvenience her than anything else. If they weren't played by huge stars, nobody would think these were characters whose relationship was interesting. It's remarkable that there are only 10 episodes in this season, and they devoted an entire episode solely to the relationship between Alex and Mitch, two of the least emotionally interesting characters on the show. It's regrettable narrative choices all the way down It's hard to believe that this is all true, but this is all true. Between this report and his angry denial, Alex realizes he's about to be extra-radioactive, so she's like, 'Noooope, I'm out, oh and by the way, I do still expect you to put out that statement lying that we never slept together, love you, mean it, bye.' When she's gone, he heads over to Paola's place, where they have sex at last, and he has found peace, and then he gets in the car to go get her some cigarettes, and then he drives off the side of a mountain. So they hug, and they dance, and everything is okay, because nothing matters!īut just when things are going better, they see on television that Maggie's book alleges that Mitch targeted Black women for harassment. There's some more fighting, but then they make up, because fundamentally neither one of them really cares about consequences of anything for anyone except themselves. And his feelings are hurt, since she thinks being connected to him will ruin her life. She wants him to release an official statement saying they never slept together, arguing that he owes her at least this much. They fight, because he doesn't want to lie anymore, but she thinks this is a very inconvenient moment for him to develop principles.

The Having It Out goes about as you would expect. When she gets to his mansion, she finds Mitch in quarantine with Paola, who makes herself scarce so that Mitch and Alex can Have It Out. She believes that being tied to him in Maggie's book via their affair will sully her reputation.

It's pointless to write a traditional recap of this episode, because it would just be a lot of 'they talk' and 'they talk again,' so let's sum it up this way: It turns out that Alex, who's been AWOL from work, was on her way to Italy to see Mitch, because she wants him to deny that they ever had (consensual!) sex, even though they did.

Mitch and Alex fight, and then they dance, because nothing matters

Fight my way ep 2