The show gains momentum as characters leap into the unknown
What Kind of Bad?
Instead, its a quieter spot in Darlenes North Carolina hometown.
I do what I want when I want, she boasts to her friends.
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And so it stings when her friends express disinterest in that fantasy.
Who knows what theyd think of what her actual life is.
Darlene, disappointed, heads outside, where shes greeted by Bernice, one of the diners waitresses.
Rodney gives her a new name: Ginger.
Im hoping McGovern could get in and end the fing war, one guy says to Abby.
Abby agrees, but then asks why hes wearing an army jacket.
He calls it ironic, and Abby winces, groaning, Everybodys ironic, huh?
Its not her scene anymore.
Let me get this straight, Vince says to him, frustrated.
Its more money, and its more exciting.
After exiting a gay porn theater, hes ambushed by cops and thrown into jail for soliciting a B.S.
charge along with the other men in attendance.
Big Mike goes to bail him out on Vinces behalf and calls out the inhumanity in the police station.
These fing cops and their bulls routes, he yells for all to hear.
No humanity in these motherfers am I right?
F it, he says to his friend while they wait in line to enter.
I want to be in the world.
Sick of hiding, hes promptly entranced by the electric energy of the club when he walks in.
After confronting death and feeling the weight of her routine last week, What Kind of Bad?
accelerates her need to ditch the life of prostitution.
It dont look as bad as that ass-whooping you took last Christmas, he says.
You keep expecting better but you keep getting worse.
I mean, you go it alone come a dark hour, youarealone.
Even as Rodneys crudely mixing insults with a pimping offer, hes not wrong.
A man then approaches in a car, asking if shes free.
She stares out blankly into the distance without a response.
He angrily drives away, and we can see it in her face: Shes done.
Desperate, Candy goes back to Harvey Wasserman, the amateur porn filmmaker she first met in episode 2.
Something about community standards, he says to her vaguely.
Candy asks him to clarify.
Apparently, he explains, New York has none.
He lets her know she can get to work in a few weeks.
And it lands most poignantly in What Kind of Bad?
because we know she needs that kind of chance most of all.
