Home Sweet Hollywood Closes Season With Dose Of Reality
REALITY CLOSES IN
Home Sweet Hollywood Ends Season With Dose Of Reality
THE NANNY FOR STELLA AND LIAM ARE LEAVING. But the question remains -- is Candy coming?
Dean's still worried about the situation. He says Tori will always hold out hope that the relationship between her and her mom will someday be healed. And usually it's the kids that help that happen. If only Candy will come to see them.
Rain threatens baby Stella's outdoor party. And a grand affair it is, filled with dogs, horses, bugs and goats, dancing fairies, a photo booth, a bouncy house, face painters, cupcakes galore and a giant ladybug cake.
It seems as though it's happening at someone else's enormous house with a backyard the size of a small park. Tori can't believe the birthday girl is cranky. Most one-year-olds are cranky at big occasions, Tori, it's their nature, she'll be fine. Even Dean's cranky. The baby needed a bottle, maybe he does too.
Then, an appearance by awesome 80's designer Nolan Miller, who looks to be about 80 now. I've read that he designed Tori's Halloween costumes but he's best known as the created of the huge-shoulder, fur clad, ultra-rich look for the TV show Dynasty."
Meanwhile Tori runs around asking everyone if they think her mom will show. She's on pins and needles, this one. So stressed out she's stressing me. It's 10:20 and still no Candy.
At 10:22 and Tori hears, "Hello, Candy." But it's the wrong Candy, just a sister of a friend. The party's over, the gays are cursing Candy and Tori’s trying to keep a stiff upper lip. At least it didn't rain.
The party was a little much for Dean, after all he's from much humbler beginnings. And Tori laments Candy's no show so Dean becomes a bit of a dick and tells her he told her so.
Earlier in the show he said he cut his own father off and urges her to do the same. But, as she says, it’s her mooooooooom. She finds comfort in a hug and words of encouragement from Dean’s sister.
At 10:27 there’s a short quiz.
1. Would it be wonderful if Tori and Candy meet and bury the hatchet finally?
Or
2. Should Candy meet the kids privately, no cameras in tow?
At 10:35 Candy emails Tori how excited she was to be invited and how she was planning her outfit. Then she says circumstances prevented her from coming -- meaning the cameras.
So in lieu of a touching scene between Tori and Candy we're treated to Tori and Dean saying goodbye to their beloved Patsy. Everybody cries. Then the couple talk about how Dean feels protective of Tori; that's why he's harsh when discussing the Candy situation. How he lost his mom and would give anything to have her back and Candy gives Tori nothing but hurt, again and again. And it bugs him since he’s been down that road with his dad.
Tori decides to either accept her mom or cut the cord. Then reminisces that things haven't always been bad between them.
Since Candy emailed, Tori feels the ball is in her court. She wants her mom in her kids' lives and and she chooses to deal with it privately. I think I just saw 36-year-old Tori grow up.
At 10:52 the quiz results are in! Sixty percent of voters chose option No. 2. Private wins!
Cut to end with music video of the entire family. Are Tori and Dean really singing? It’s so bad the answer has got to be yes.
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