Review: Lost Girl, S2 Ep 16, “School’s Out”
Air date: Friday, August 3, 2012, 10/9C on Syfy
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Ugh, high school. How I loathed it! I hung out with two girls, but I was mostly a loner. Ripped up T-shirts and gnarly jeans, that was me. I could totally relate to Bo’s dread at having to go undercover at a high school. The look on her face—of dread and disgust—is pretty much how I felt about high school, too.
Is Bo enjoying her stint as a substitute teacher?
When a cheerleader named Beverly (Samantha Munro) collapses in a classroom, Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) immediately heads to Bo’s place to tell her about the case. Good thing he doesn’t see Ryan (Anthony Lemke) there, because, well, Lauren (Zoie Palmer) and Nadia (Athena Karkanis) are already there. It’s like a triad of awkwardness. The one left clueless is Nadia, who’s unaware that Lauren and Bo have an intimate history. Lauren doing her doe-eyed, woe is me, wet looks at Bo is sort of pathetic, and I hardly have sympathy for her. Something about her behavior bugs me. I mean, she made her choice; she should try to make things work with Nadia considering how long it took to bring her back to life. Right? All of that effort for what… nothing? Nadia isn’t stupid; by the end of “School’s Out,” she knows something’s up—though not with Bo, but with The Ash. I wish Lauren would stop mooning over Bo and concentrate on making things work with Nadia. Come on, Nadia is a looker! How Lauren can resist her advances is beyond me.
I was ready for a funny episode, and “School’s Out” brought plenty of chuckles—Bo going undercover as a literature teacher, Kenzi as a student, and Dyson as a guidance counselor. Now, how could Bo expect the students in her class to focus on Romeo and Juliet when she’s wearing a tight pencil skirt with a button-down white blouse? Has she forgotten that high school boys are hormonal? Kenzi sure hasn’t forgotten. I had to wonder if she had pigtails in high school, because her “Hola, chiquitas!” and “Heather, Heather, AND Heather” (in reference to the cult film, Heathers) lines were hilarious; seeing her trying to fit in with the popular crowd (the leader of whom dissed Kenzi’s boots, gasp!) and being promptly greeted with bitchiness got Kenzi into a knuckle-cracking fury. Being sent to the principal’s office? Icing on the cake. I just wish I could’ve seen a bloody nose somewhere, or that bitchy girl’s face in a toilet.
Dyson fits right in with the high school students
This time, the villain isn’t really Fae. It’s actually high school itself, and all of the pressures that come with it. The cliques in high school—the popular girls, the outcasts, the brainiacs—never change:
Kenzi: “Teen angst, our greatest foe.”
Bo: “You said it, sister.”
As for Kenzi and Bo, they’ve got a bit of a sticky situation. Kenzi thinks Bo isn’t seeing Ryan anymore after what he did to Nate, but Bo and Ryan can’t get enough of each other. In frustration, she tells Ryan, “I don’t like that I like you!” I’m with Bo—Ryan is definitely irresistible. He knows just the right thing to say to placate her, going so far as to decorate the auditorium prom style and telling her, “I thought you could use a good high school memory.” I think his problem is that no one ever tells him no. What would happen if Bo firmly told him she couldn’t see him anymore? He makes her weak kneed, and I think she sees him as a challenge, especially as he’s Dark Fae and there’s something illicit about their relationship.
When it’s revealed that Earl’s (Steven Yaffee) father Jed (Andrew Jackson) (both are humans) was using a substance from a Fae creature called the Simurgh to make his son smarter, one can’t help but feel the son’s despair and sadness upon his realization that his father didn’t accept him as he is (“Was I so bad before?”). It’s a common feeling in teenagers; I think parents who try to live vicariously through their children end up suffering, and their children even more so.
The mean girls give bad bitch to Kenzi
What is curious about the Akvans’ (dumb Fae who are assimilated into normal society) punishment for using the Simurgh is that it’s particularly lenient by Fae rules. It comes with the understanding that a parent’s job is a difficult one. Even Trick (Rick Howland) acknowledges the weight of responsibility of parents to their children. Just how lenient The Akvans’ punishment will be, we don’t know. It’s encouraging to know that Fae rules can be bent, even if just a little. This shows us a hint of humanity among the Fae, which pleased me a great deal. Living amongst humans is bound to rub off on the Fae one way or another.
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