‘Everlasting’ heats up with a scandalous (fake) gay love story and a grand romantic gesture.
The budding romance is helped by the fact that Serena is no longer playing along with productions manipulations.
Quinn calls the idea a snoozefest and tries to get Rachel to backtrack, but winds up playing along.
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This is Quinn King were talking about shes always got a trick up her sleeve.
And indeed, Quinns producing work on this episode is a stroke of genius.
She has a project for them to work on together: digging up a scandal.
Particularly, Quinn sets her eyes on roommates Guy, the chef, and Warren, the cowboy.
Warren, meanwhile, is taken off campus by Quinn for a little Q&A.
Quinn, abruptly, asks if Warren is gay in response, which he sharply shoots down.
But a love triangle is set in motion nonetheless.
Warren offers to go intrude on Serenas date with Guy to prove his hetero bona fides.
And intrude he does: stumbling into the restaurant drunkenly, professing his attraction to a perplexed Serena.
Guy, meanwhile, is both angry and confused.
Were supposed to be going through this together, Guy says.
Were on the same team.
And: You should know how I feel about you, dude.
Hes giving theEverlastingteam gold.
But Serena is upset, and confronts Rachel about whether she knew about the stunt.
She tells Serena shes not just a job shes a person.
Of course, embedded within that comment of Rachels is a bit of a cry for help.
Her father is starting to show symptoms of withdrawal.
And then theres the issue of Dr. Simon spying on her trailer.
Things start going wrong when Rachels dad accidentally walks in on Serena showering.
Rachel comes clean sort of.
She calls his presence an opportunity for father-daughter bonding time, which Quinn calls BS on.
But Rachel doesnt drop the facade.
She even leaves him on set to go produce the Serena-Guy date, a recipe for disaster.
He tells Alexei it cant happen again, but Alexeis able to tempt him once again.
And its just as Jays boyfriend, Xavier, shows up to surprise him.
Jay calls it all a little much.
His arc in the episode ends with him snorting cocaine with Alexei.
(Jurys still out on whether that fight of his will be all for naught.)
Serena does find new sympathy for Rachel after an ugly episode unfolds.
Much of the crew is left laughing, but Serena takes it seriously.
She apologizes to Rachel, saying she didnt realize she was going through so much.
Naturally, its Quinn.
This is beyond you, Quinn says to her, softly but firmly.
Rachel seems to finally get it.
Theyve come closer together this season than wed ever previously seen onUnREAL.
There are actually two potential love stories in the works right now.
You suddenly feel that they have a chance.
And same goes for the always tumultuous Rachel and Quinn.
Its surprisingly involving thrilling, even to watch both dynamics play out and hope they dont fall apart.
