Anyway she reads the page she gave to Austin and rips it up and then she goes Alanis Morrisette on his poster that was hanging above her bed. I think she’s finally embracing the break up because she ends up on her bed crying over the ripped pieces of paper and poster. She really has no luck with men because Carter cheated on her with Lauren and now Austin blames her for the demise of his career. Do you think that if she had put out with either one that they would have stayed?

She didn’t even measure that shit, Overdose!
Wendy is in the kitchen making smoothies again and eyeing a little bottle with powder in it. She contemplates for a second and then ends up dumping a bunch into the mixer. Kaylie walks out of her room and Wendy says that she heard her crying and thought that she could use some TLC so she made her a smoothie. Kaylie smiles and says that was a sweet gesture and that she isn’t okay but she will be. Wendy tells her that it is too bad that there isn’t a surgery that can heal her broken heart.

Drink up!
Kaylie says she knows that it hasn’t been easy for Wendy and Wendy says that it’s heard being the youngest but she looks up to every one of them. Kaylie tells her that if she would just be herself that everyone will like her and Wendy has a moment where I believe she doubts going forward with her plan. Nope, she hands Kaylie the glass and tells her to drink up because smoothies are best when fresh and Kaylie drinks that shit up. She tells her it was exactly what she needed and Wendy tells her it was her pleasure. Wow…she totally went after Kaylie hardcore so I guess Payson will be the only Rock girl at the Olympics unless Wendy breaks her back again overnight.

I can’t believe I’m doing this. Me either!
The girls are doing tai chi with Jake in order to calm Lauren’s heart down because she is willing to try anything. She says that the wrestlers do this before matches to find their center and Kaylie says Jake is a man of many talents. Jake is trying to concentrate but the girls keep talking and he tells them they need less talking and more zen. Lauren is then shown running on a treadmill testing her heart with the doctor. He tells her and Payson that she is experiencing abnormal spikes even with no symptoms and that he stopped her before she experienced more spikes. The spikes are what have been causing her blackouts so he does not believe she is ready to start training. Lauren asks her how he knows if she is ready if he won’t let her push farther. He says that there is no way to monitor her while performing because of all the wires and Payson says there has to be a wireless device that they can use while she is on the beam.

When did she get interesting?
More Rigo and Payson boring time…This time it’s late at night and they are dancing and hugging around a campfire. They exchange “I Love Yous” and then Payson starts dancing and busts out a full salsa which she apparently learned in between all that free time she has away from gymnastics. Rigo stares at her in amazement and she gets embarrassed and says that she just get into and went with the flow. Rigo tells her that she should add it for her floor routine because it was amazing and that would spice things up. Payson contemplates this as he dips her to the floor and I hope he drops her but it doesn’t happen.

Why did it require her straps to be down?
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SG, you totally called what happened to Jordan. Don’t like the girl, but I felt for her!
As for Wendy, girl is Cray! With as much pseudoephedrine she put in that shake, They both can get kicked off the team! Unless she poured herself a glass first, I don’t remember.
I think Ayla has a rocking body and some of those leo’s they put her in, do not do that woman any favors!
Sad horns for next week!
I called it here on the comments about Jordan being molested. I don’t think one episode can really wrap all of this up properly. At this point only Payson and maybe Lauren will be going unless Wendy screws up the drugging Kaylie. Yeah, I would not trust anyone if I was there about giving me food or water.
Will miss this show. I don’t think he has molested Wendy yet but he might be grooming her. Usually they have to groom the girls a bit before going for the molesting. Yuck.
Gah…I feel like there are way too many things to try and tie up in one episode. It all feels so rushed as it is, and now I have a feeling that the finale will be the same. I sincerely hope somehow Wendy gets caught and kicked off the team for drugging Kaylie. I am still irritated as to why she is so intent on sabotaging the Rock girls in the first place, and sadly, I don’t think we are going to get a suitable explanation. SG—I seriously thought the same thing when Wendy dumped a crap load of the Pseudoephedrine in the smoothie, like, “Dude, are you nuts? This isn’t Ibuprofen you’re giving her, it is basically speed! Kaylie’s going to die from an overdose, you lunatic!”
I totally knew Jordan was molested by the coach. And him being all creepy with Wendy in the gym solidified it. The back story with Kaylie and her refusing to do her signature move led right to it. I thought the moment between Jordan and Kaylie at the end was really well done.
I actually am going to be pretty mad if Lauren makes the team. I feel like they have given her character this challenge to help her grow as a person, and that means not having her go to the Olympics. Lord knows that they will let her go so she can, what, do ONE beam routine? Maybe all the way through? Totally unrealistic that they are even letting the girl train! Sad for it all to end though
Things I’m Grateful For In This Episode
1) The writers throwing all cheesiness caution to the wind and saying fuck it
2) “Let’s get some sizzle up in here”
3) Making bets with myself to see if I can find even tiny 1 thing @SG missed and always winning.
4) Rigo being even dorkier than his hair
5) Little Evil Wendy making pseudoephedrineberry smoothies
6) “I’m used to monitoring these girls for all types of reasons”
7) Forgetting to make the I Took A Pain Pill warning #1 on this list
8) Next week: It’s good-bye forever as Jordan and her secret ninja bunny save Little Evil Wendy from getting almost child molested by Creepy Coach doing his redneck politician imitation. Just then Payson redefines gymnastic salsa. Which makes it more organically white people friendly but also unfortunately causes a vortex of Olympic size black holes to eat the universe. Nothingness ensues.
Want to know something weird? I took gymnastics at a gym that had a sex scandal for reals. The owner had consensual sex with an underage student of his. I think she was 16 or 17. There was a trial. I think he got off with like probation or something. The gym is still open to this day. His wife never left him that I knew of and kept running the gym while that was going on. Crazyness.
Okay found a description of that case I was talking about if anyone is interested.
http://tn.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19930111_0004.TN.htm/qx
Gym still open to this day. Not sure who runs it now. Still called Garner’s Gym
April you did call it! I just feel like the fans will get a very shitty sendoff sort of like what happened with the end of LOST. There’s probably no promise of a movie either which would have been nice if it were set at the Olympics and we found out how everyone placed.
This show has never gone in for realism, alas, so I’ll bet Lauren, Payson & kaylie all somehow make the Olympic team and medal, at least as a group. How the heck ABC will wrap all the storylines, get them to the Olympics AND show the competition, is beyond me.
What I WISH would happen instead is that none of them make this Year’s team, and the episode ends as other girls head to London. Then a scroll over epilogue about their futures:
Wendy shaped up, after (whatever Meaningful Moment created in the finale where she repents) and medal led in 2016.
Payson became a sought after coach, and doctor. She and Rigo broke up but still exchange Xmas cards.
Kaylie is a guidance counselor.
Lauren hawks on the home shopping network.
Emily (remember her?) owns a pizzaria.
Kelly/KC is a sports agent.
Jordan runs a bunny rescue.
Etc.
Escapee you hit the mark on the epilogues! I would only change thet Jordan runs the pizzeria because she eats a lot and that bunny is no where near being safe and that Emily runs the bunny rescue because she loves breeding.
I never noticed how awful Kaylie’s handwriting is, thanks for pointing it out. It looks like someone that broke their normal writing hand and now either has to work with a cast or write with their other hand. Did anyone else notice that the ‘page’ she tore out of her diary was perfectly smooth on all edges and the page was still larger than the rest of the pages in the diary. Plus, there was that torn-out-page-part still in the diary.
The bottle Wendy had the mystery powder in was a Benefit cosmetics jar, I think it has concealer in it normally. I notice random stuff like that, not very useful.
Unless the final episode is 2 hours, there is no way they could actually end this show on a good note. They better not leave it on a cliff hanger with hopes that the viewers will do a petition to ABCFamily to put the show back on the air. They knew they only had 8 episodes to wrap it all up, I don’t know why they are trying to introduce new plot lines so close to the end.
I have terrible handwriting too.
Carol—interesting about the cosmetics jar Wendy uses to hold the pseudoephedrine powder. I thought it was intended (initially) to be a lip gloss case, as she pretends to be “putting on” lip gloss when someone sees her with it (I think this was in the sneak peak clip for next week).
I agree about not being able to wrap up the series properly. The previews showed them winning something but with all the storylines they’ve written and the Olympics, it seems impossible.
I’ll miss your recaps SG!!
Congrats to everyone who called the creepy coach thing! I didn’t think that until he was “fixing” Wendy’s leg in the gym.
I thought Kaylie had sex??
This show always seems to address sex pretty extensively..so I figured if Kaylie had had sex with Austin, it definitely would have been discussed/mentioned like when she was contemplating having sex with Carter in season 1.
@carol I went back and looked and you’re right! I didn’t notice the wrong note paper at all. (Which is no big surprise) But @SG didn’t either! So if you bet yourself pizza she’d miss something, you won!
I always bet she won’t and win. But that’s the trick to betting yourself. Either way, you end up with pizza.
So to keep things 100% fair, since you discovered that, I’m counting that I also lost. And now owe myself another pizza.