The last piece of homework I did before watching the finale was to go back and rewatch Greg's scenes from season 1. It is meant to appear that by chance alone he has the room next to Tanya and is a bit tipsy so he gets his room number confused and is trying to open her door which works as a conversation starter. He is incredibly nice to her even when she hits him with an enormous load of crazy. His behavior bears no resemblance to his behavior in s2. The point of all this is that the Tanya con that finally comes to fruition in the s2 finale was brewing way back in Hawaii.
As the episode unfolds it becomes clear that Greg and Quentin have been running a long con on Tanya. She made Greg sign a prenup but in the event of her death he gets it all. This seems a bit unlikely but I am not lawyer. They plan to have the "mafia" guy who seduced Tanya in the previous episode do the dirty work. Tanya and Portia start to put this all together with Tanya effectively being held prisoner by Quentin and Portia by Essex boy toy Jack.
This little of bit of crime drama is clearly not Mike White's forte. It seems like some highly undisciplined behavior by Quentin (the photo of he and Greg laying around and his having sex with his "nephew") plus Jack's getting so hammered he spills some of the beans. It seems they could have just taken care of Tanya the night before when she was in a highly compromised state. In addition the mafia guy is going to leave his bag with a gun unattended when it is obvious she is becoming very suspicious. It was good and suspenseful but not really believable.
Ethan gets Harper to admit that she kissed the smarmy Cameron. This leads a physical fight between Ethan and Cameron. After Ethan has a heart to heart with Daphne she leads him away to an isolated locale and teaches him there is a fun way to cope with a cheating spouse.
Albie not surprisingly gets conned by Lucia and it is also apparent that Valentina was conned by Mia. However Albie and Valentina got the sex they want, the hookers got the money or job they want, Albie got a life lesson, Dominic gets a wife that seems willing to talk to him again, Ethan actually wants to have sex with Harper, and Daphne and Cameron are exactly the same as at the beginning.
So really it works out for everyone except Tanya...poor rich sad Tanya.
I really enjoyed this whole season with the exception of the potential murder of Tanya not being well thought out. You would need both a body and a non-suspicious death to collect her estate and Quentin did not seem to have a real plan for that.
As the episode unfolds it becomes clear that Greg and Quentin have been running a long con on Tanya. She made Greg sign a prenup but in the event of her death he gets it all. This seems a bit unlikely but I am not lawyer. They plan to have the "mafia" guy who seduced Tanya in the previous episode do the dirty work. Tanya and Portia start to put this all together with Tanya effectively being held prisoner by Quentin and Portia by Essex boy toy Jack.
This little of bit of crime drama is clearly not Mike White's forte. It seems like some highly undisciplined behavior by Quentin (the photo of he and Greg laying around and his having sex with his "nephew") plus Jack's getting so hammered he spills some of the beans. It seems they could have just taken care of Tanya the night before when she was in a highly compromised state. In addition the mafia guy is going to leave his bag with a gun unattended when it is obvious she is becoming very suspicious. It was good and suspenseful but not really believable.
Ethan gets Harper to admit that she kissed the smarmy Cameron. This leads a physical fight between Ethan and Cameron. After Ethan has a heart to heart with Daphne she leads him away to an isolated locale and teaches him there is a fun way to cope with a cheating spouse.
Albie not surprisingly gets conned by Lucia and it is also apparent that Valentina was conned by Mia. However Albie and Valentina got the sex they want, the hookers got the money or job they want, Albie got a life lesson, Dominic gets a wife that seems willing to talk to him again, Ethan actually wants to have sex with Harper, and Daphne and Cameron are exactly the same as at the beginning.
So really it works out for everyone except Tanya...poor rich sad Tanya.
I really enjoyed this whole season with the exception of the potential murder of Tanya not being well thought out. You would need both a body and a non-suspicious death to collect her estate and Quentin did not seem to have a real plan for that.