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The final episode of “Beauty in Black” Season 3 reveals that Gina is not operating alone. Jules, the former Bellarie security chief who spent much of the season searching for answers about his son Glen’s death, is the hidden force behind her growing criminal operation. Gina provides the money, armed men, and access to Make…
Nico Murray disappears from The Sex Lives of College Girls because Essex expels him after discovering the academic-cheating system operated by his fraternity, Theta. Kimberly turns the fraternity’s archive of stolen exam material over to the honor board while trying to avoid her own expulsion, and the evidence triggers a wider investigation that removes Nico…
Yes, Leighton and Alicia are still together when Leighton’s story ends in The Sex Lives of College Girls. Season 3 initially sets up a potential separation when Alicia accepts a job in Boston and Leighton remains at Essex, but Leighton’s unexpected transfer to MIT puts them in the same city instead. The show therefore sends…
Leighton Murray leaves Essex in The Sex Lives of College Girls Season 3 because transferring to MIT gives her the advanced mathematics opportunities Essex can no longer provide. The move also conveniently puts her in Boston, where her girlfriend Alicia is starting a new job, but Alicia is not the sole reason Leighton transfers. Behind…
Episode 8 gives Bret Easton Ellis the strongest evidence yet for his belief that Robert Mallory is connected to the Trawler, but it still stops short of proving Robert is the killer. Aunt Abigail confirms that Bret really saw Robert at The Shining in May 1980 and reveals that Robert was there with Katherine Latchford,…
Rhonda and Matt were both taken by the Trawler, both kept alive after their disappearances, and both appeared to be trapped inside the same nightmare. Their outcomes could not be more different. Rhonda is eventually returned alive, bloodied and traumatized, while Matt is later murdered. The Shards has not yet explained why the Trawler spared…
Matt Kellner’s disappearance has hovered over The Shards almost from the beginning, partly because viewers knew something Bret did not: Matt was still alive after he vanished. Episode 7 finally ends that uncertainty in the cruelest possible way. Matt is dead, and Bret discovers his severed head displayed inside a trophy case at Buckley after…
Homecoming gives The Shards a brief excuse to dress everyone up and pretend Buckley is returning to normal, but Episode 7 ends with two developments that make that impossible. Rhonda publicly accuses Susan Reynolds of kidnapping her after recognizing the smell of Giorgio perfume, leading police to take Susan away. Minutes later, Bret discovers Matt…
Kimberly Finkle’s decision to sell her eggs in The Sex Lives of College Girls is not a random Season 2 money-making scheme. She does it because losing her scholarship leaves her needing $42,000 a year to remain at Essex, an amount her working-class family cannot simply provide. Kimberly refuses to tell her parents how serious…
Expedition X really did recover a medieval silver coin during its Robin Hood investigation, but there is no evidence that the object ever belonged to Robin Hood. In Season 12 Episode 2, testing identifies the coin Phil Torres retrieved from a well beneath Ye Olde Salutation Inn in Nottingham as a genuine silver short-cross penny…
Yes, Bela Malhotra is bisexual in The Sex Lives of College Girls. Season 3’s finale confirms it directly after Bela unexpectedly kisses Haley, the woman running the storytelling show she recently joined, and realizes that her attraction to women is sexual rather than simply admiration. Bela quickly tells Kimberly, Whitney and Kacey that she is…
Kacey and Cooper break up in The Sex Lives of College Girls Season 3 finale because Kacey moves their new relationship much faster than Cooper is comfortable with. Shortly after they have sex for the first time, Kacey arranges for Cooper to meet her mother and reveals that her family has already transferred an extra…
