[person laughing]
[indistinct speech]
[dreamy ambient hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
BIG SEAN: ♪ Last night took an L but tonight I bounce back ♪
♪ Wake up every morning ♪
♪ By the night, I count stacks ♪
♪ Knew that ass was real ♪
♪ When I hit, it bounce back ♪
You ain't getting checks.
♪ ♪
♪ Last night took an L but tonight I bounce back ♪
♪ Boy, I been broke as hell ♪
♪ Cashed a check and bounced back ♪
♪ D town, LAX, every week I bounce back ♪
♪ If you a real one, then you know how to bounce back ♪
- Fuck you.
BIG SEAN: ♪ I woke up in beast mode ♪
♪ With my girl, that's beauty and the beast though ♪
♪ ♪
- [groaning]
[phone buzzing]
[mumbling] Hello.
JOHN: Hi. Do you want a coffee?
- What time is it?
JOHN: It's 5:50.
Actually, I already got you a coffee.
- [groans]
I would love a coffee. JOHN: Great.
BIG SEAN: ♪ So last night took an L ♪
♪ But tonight I bounce back ♪
♪ Boy, I been broke as hell ♪
♪ Cashed a check and bounced back ♪
♪ D town, LAX, every week I bounce back ♪
♪ If you a real one, then you know how to bounce back ♪
♪ Bounce back, bounce ♪
♪ Bounce, bounce back, bounce ♪
♪ Bounce, bounce, bounce, bitch, bounce ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ ♪
- Morning. BETH: Morning.
[sighs] - How do you feel?
BETH: I'm thriving.
- Ready to work? - Fuck yeah.
[percussive music]
♪ ♪
- Wanna try it?
[indistinct conversation]
♪ ♪
- God, you go. I'm on a break.
JOHN: Okay, okay, may I?
♪ ♪
- Hmm.
- They're not my favorite. - Yeah.
- Grab a couple.
- Okay.
- One. - Oh my God.
- Two. Did you see all the water?
- I did. And I felt the water.
- Put it in here.
Don't release because they'll explode.
[atmospheric acoustic pop music]
♪ ♪
- So. - Yeah.
- That was perfect.
And then if you wanna be really pro,
you can put them like that. - In that way.
- Like a pair of shoes.
- I don't see how those are shoes, but that's simple.
Um...
God, I just kind of wanna dunk my head in here right now.
- Did you go that hard last night?
- No, but it was kind of a rough--
a rough night, just--yeah.
- Well, please don't dunk your head in there.
That would pollute the whole basin.
- Okay, yeah, and I wouldn't wanna mess up my hair.
I can feel it looks really amazing right now.
- It looks pretty bad because of the dirt and sweat.
- Yeah. God, what are these monsters?
- That's celery root.
That is the unsung hero of root vegetables.
- Wow. It's an honor.
- I hope some of this is useful for your job.
- Yeah, learning anything is useful, right?
- Well, come on, I'll show you how
to clean out the chicken coop.
Is it okay on your back?
- Yeah. JOHN: This is precious compost.
- Oh, yeah. It seems like precious.
What's the smell?
- Uh, probably ammonia. - Yeah.
JOHN: Don't you think it's funny that
their poop and their eggs come out of the same hole?
- I didn't know that. That is--that's funny.
JOHN: Do you think this is a good idea?
- Cleaning up the chicken shit?
- We're obviously attracted to each other,
but we work together.
- Um.
No, I know you have a girlfriend.
Yeah. Yeah, no.
So yeah, I'm happy to be friends.
JOHN: Yeah. - Yeah.
JOHN: I thought maybe-- - No, no, I'm happy to--
JOHN: I was gonna say just friends.
- Friends, right. Yeah, till the end.
[chickens clucking]
Man, smelly...
- Yeah, just group all this together into one big pile,
and then we can easily scoop it into the wheelbarrow.
- Okay. - Just make a central pile.
- Yeah.
- Thanks for coming to Elena's party.
- It was fun.
- Yeah, I think it meant a lot to her,
even though she's never met you before,
and she's probably forgotten about the whole event.
- [laughs]
Yeah, it was nice.
It was nice meeting, you know, almost everybody.
Does Katie ever do this stuff with you?
- Katie doesn't like the outdoors.
SKYLER: Hey, John. - Hey, Skyler.
SKYLER: Hey, uh, I saw the boat and, yes, it's good.
- You're the best, man.
SKYLER: Uh, am I gonna see you at the fair tonight?
- Yeah, you know it.
SKYLER: All right. See you there, buddy.
- See you there.
- The fair.
- Yeah, there's this fair we do every year.
- No, I know, I know.
Like, what-- - [coughing]
- Ew. - I'm sorry.
- Do you want some water?
- Thank you. - Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna go, so.
- You want your water? BETH: That's for you, keep it.
- Oh, wow. Thanks.
- What am I doing? What am I doing?
MAYA: What are you doing?
- I don't know.
- He has a girlfriend. - I know.
- Do you? - Yes.
- Okay, Because that's exactly how my marriage broke up.
- I know. At this point,
I'm just following him around like some sad--
SHLOMO: Loser. - Okay, Shlomo.
I, like, really had it together up until two weeks ago.
So please just--
- Beth, you know he's right.
What happened last night?
- It was disturbing.
- Is that it? - Yeah, that is it.
- Well, I need more details than that, come on.
- You really don't wanna--
CHARLES: What are you talking about?
- Um, absolutely nothing. Ew, mind your business.
- Hey, Beth. BETH: What's up?
WILL: Heard about your mama. I'm sorry.
- Thanks, Will. - "I heard about your mama."
You don't give a damn about her or her mother, phony-ass.
And PS, do not bring Charles back here hopped up on sugar,
talking about violence and video games.
- All right.
But you know I know you give him soda, right?
- I can't believe it, my own son--you little narc.
- No, I am not.
What did I tell you?
- That snitches get stitches.
MAYA: You know it.
- My parenting is in question? Really?
SHLOMO: They're on. - Who that?
- This is Shlomo.
- Shlomo - I'm Shlomo.
- Slo-mo. - No, Dad, Shlomo.
- Shlomo...
- Shlomo.
- Huh. Come on.
Let's get, 'cause I ain't got time for this.
- Ew, I married that.
Anyway, girl, we're about to do this bris on Zoom.
SHLOMO: My nephew. - Oh, very nice.
SHLOMO: Yeah, thank you. - Congratulations.
- All right, babe.
- Weird if I stick around?
- No, come on.
PARENT: All right. I think he's had enough.
We're gonna wrap things up here.
Thanks, guys.
- This tradition is fucked.
- Not my favorite ritual,
but they all have their purpose.
- So you're, like, really Jewish.
- I only really started observing again two years ago.
BETH: Oh, yeah? What--
Like, what brought you back to it?
- Oh, my dad died,
and I didn't really know what to do with myself.
- Oh.
- I like all the rules Judaism gave me.
How long you sit shiva, what to say, what to eat.
Rending of the garment. I mean, all of it.
- Yeah.
Um, my mom was--
no, she converted to Judaism, like, for my dad.
So I don't think she'd really be a candidate
for all of that, you know.
SHLOMO: No, shiva is not about the dead person or even God.
It's all for the mourners.
By day five of my dad's,
I thought I was ready to be done.
Then day six came, and I couldn't stop weeping.
It's like a prescription. Like antibiotics.
Even though you feel better, you have to finish 'em.
- Right. And you can't drink on them.
- "Will you guys come meet me at Maya's?
I'm so bored". Beth, I'm on this text chain.
- Okay, I'm sorry. I'm not bored.
I wrote that earlier when I was bored.
- Rude. - Hey, is that Beth?
Oh, ah, look at that. I thought I heard you
in my house. - Hey.
GRANDPA DON: How you doing with everything, girl?
- Oh, you know, better than I should be.
- Oh, fuck all that.
No, such thing. Slo-mo, huh?
- Shlomo. - Shlomo.
- Look here, I'm going out tonight, so don't wait up.
It is Motown quiz night at the rec center.
And I will be winning that $100.
- Get 'em done.
- All right, Pop.
Girl, he ain't gonna win shit.
But, um, you know we still gotta talk about last night.
- No, I don't-- MAYA: What?
- I'm so tired, and I don't wanna--
SHLOMO: It's fine.
I have to prepare for the sabbath anyway.
BETH: Okay. - Shabbat shalom, ladies.
- And also, with you.
- So, Travis. - [groans]
MAYA: Come on.
- What do you mean piles? - Like, I mean piles.
Like piles, like to the ceiling of the shit.
- Yeah, we don't care about the piles.
Okay. We wanna know about the sex.
- Was it like fucking a god? - No, it was--
it was disgusting. It wasn't--
- No. - Yes.
- No, okay, this isn't fun. No, we want hot details.
- No, I know that.
I'm sorry that I can't deliver that to you,
but it was like a really fucked up experience, okay?
We shouldn't have--our bodies, like, didn't belong together.
It was like a sea otter fucking, like,
a slab of marble.
- Okay, so who are you in this situation?
- Obviously she's a sea otter. - I'm the fricking sea otter.
- What are you talking about? JESS: I don't know.
- Why would I be the marble? - I don't know.
- There's no world I'm the marble.
- Sea otters are kinda hot. - What?
- There is, like, a guy that-- - [gasps]
Okay, this is what I mean.
- No, no, no, but it's nothing.
I think it's nothing. I just--
- You got, like, a little blushy.
- No, shut up, it's not-- - She's smiling.
- No. Are you guys going to the fair?
- Oh, yeah. The fair is tonight.
- Yeah. - I should bring the kids.
- Yes. - Uh, I'm too tired.
- Oh. - Really?
- I think I'm gonna tell my kids it's canceled.
- Yeah, Liz made it an assignment
for them to go, but fuck that. - I'm not doing that.
- All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, enough of that.
What's going on? Did you talk about Travis' dick yet?
- No, no! - She's giving us nothing.
- What? Come on, we've been waiting.
- No, I'm not going to.
No, can we talk about you and Shlomo?
These two? No, you guys have chemistry.
MAYA: Okay, all right, yeah. We got chemistry.
Let me just say this...
twice last night, once this morning.
Okay? Twice last night, once--girl.
- Yes. MAYA: Come on.
- Tell us everything. Beth is bumming us out.
- Listen, let me just tell you something.
He is a communicator.
La-la-la-la, la, la-la-la, okay?
- What does that mean, though? - He talks dirty.
I knew that. I love that.
- It's not even just that.
It's like, I tell him what to do, and he does it.
He asks me what do I want, and he does it.
JESS: Oh, my God. JEN: Oh, damn, that's good.
- I can't even imagine
just to like say what you actually want.
- No, I tell Bryan everything. - Oh, yeah.
I can't wait for Jeff to figure it out down there.
- Oh, gosh.
Yeah, what's weird for me is that actually like,
it's like your dad is like reading my mind,
so I don't have to say shit-- - [squawking]
- No, no, he's like, you know, he's just a wizard.
It's not my fault.
- No, but seriously, like sex
is really hard for girls for a long time.
- Yeah, sometimes forever.
[sighs]
[cheerful carnival music]
♪ ♪
- Um, excuse me.
Hi, where'd you get that corn dog?
- Brought it from home.
JOHN: Make some kind of a tart, berry tart,
or a savory tart with them. They kinda burst--
- Give me all your snap peas, and no one gets hurt.
- Beth. Hey.
- It's a carrot. - I know, I wasn't afraid.
- Oh. Hey.
- You made it.
- Hi, yeah, I made it.
- It's so nice to see you. - Katie here?
- No, it's mostly outside, so.
- That's the thing with fairs. Yeah.
- That's the thing.
- So where's--oh, Grandpa's famous blackberries, right?
- Um. - Mind if I--
- Yeah, you're not really supposed to
eat the display, actually.
- There's three left. - There are six judges.
- Right. Cool.
- They can share them.
- Should we go hang?
- Yeah. - Can you leave the display?
- I think so. - Yeah.
Ooh, this looks good, right?
Is it part of the contest?
- Yeah, we're not supposed to be doing that--or that.
You shouldn't even be touching them.
- Are we gonna get in trouble? - Yeah.
[gentle acoustic music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, my gosh, the water balloon race game.
Should we play? - This game doesn't hold
the same emotional weight for me as you.
- That sounds like a yes.
- Oh, look at the happy couple here.
Oliver Twist needs a friend.
Water racer, water chaser, what do you say?
- How much? CARNIVAL BARKER: $5 a head.
- Bargain. - Got it?
- Okay. - Oh, beautiful.
- Okay. - Three players.
Three players. - Okay, You ready?
- All right. A-one, a-two, spray.
- Ooh!
- Hey, his stream is clearly faster than ours.
- Oh, my God, oh, my God, look at that.
This is bullshit.
- This isn't fair.
- Yes! Suck it, nerds.
- Oh, okay. Really?
CARNIVAL BARKER: Winner, winner, chicken dinner, my friend.
- Where did you get that corn dog?
- From your mom. - My mom is dead.
- Good.
- You didn't really win that bear.
- Yeah, that bear is a lie, and I hope it gives you a rash.
- Fuck you, you fat lepers. - Okay.
Does that make you feel good,
to be rude to strangers and cheat?
'Cause you--I know you come from an unstable home, but I--
fuck you. - Whatever, hag.
- Let's go, let's go. Yeah, let's go.
BETH: Do you hear him? JOHN: He's not worth it.
JOHN: Let's find you a corn dog.
BETH: Please, let's find me a corn dog.
I mean, really, if you think about it, this fair blows.
Limited secret corn dogs, no roller coasters.
Where are you even supposed to get fingered anymore?
- Excuse me?
- The movie "Fear."
- Missed that one.
- Stop it. Are you serious?
Reese Witherspoon?
Mark Wahlberg?
- Mark Wahlberg gets fingered? I'll have to check that out.
- No, we have to watch that. I mean "Fear" or something.
I don't know if you like watching.
- Yeah, I do. I don't have a TV,
but we could watch it on a computer
if you download it somewhere first with internet.
- Easy. Yeah, I have Wi-Fi access.
Oh, my God, I mean, "Fear"? You've never seen "Fear"?
God. JOHN: I'm going to.
- Prime Witherspoon.
You've ever seen "Brown Bunny"? [laughter]
Oh God, I hate this. I hate this.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
JOHN: Don't look. BETH: Okay, okay.
JOHN: Whoa.
Don't look left or right. That's my advice.
- Okay.
If you close your eyes, it's okay.
♪ ♪
- No corn dogs, but I got two waters.
- Oh, great. Um, I will be right back.
- I'll hold the waters and wait right here.
- Liz.
- Oh, my God.
- How are you? - Um, I'm okay, I just--
- Um, I'm just in town.
My mom died. Did you know that?
- I didn't. I'm sorry.
BETH: Yeah. Um, it's fine.
What about you? Is your family here?
- Yeah, my, uh, my son's around here somewhere actually.
BETH: Oh, wow. - Yeah, I have a son.
He's like-- BETH: Yeah.
- Yeah. - That's so cool.
Do you wanna get like a coffee sometime or like, you know.
- Sweetheart.
This is mommy's very old friend.
- This lady screamed at me. BOTH: What?
- You said I come from an unstable home.
- Um. - Excuse me?
- And you attacked me. - I did not.
- Because you're a bitch.
- Okay, all right. Beth.
- He's obviously a little drunk.
Okay? No, look,
your son cheated, okay? - Mm-hmm.
- You cheated. BETH: You cheated.
- You cheated. - Beth.
BETH: It was you that cheated.
- You cheated. - Beth.
- No, listen, do you wanna just exchange information?
Like we could just get coffee
or a drink. We could like clear it all up?
- You need to leave, Beth. You need to leave now.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. LIZ: That's enough.
- Okay, okay, great. I'm gonna leave.
- Bye. I mean it.
- Yes, I'm leaving. Okay.
Do you know where they have corn dogs?
I'm leaving.
- Okay. - I'm leaving.
- Bye. Bye.
- I drank both waters.
BETH: Can we leave? - Yeah.
We should go check out my boat.
- Great. - Free corn dogs here.
Get your free corn dogs here.
- So that's your boat? - Yeah.
It's great, right?
- It's great.
JOHN: I love it.
- Mm-hmm.
JOHN: It's really relaxing just to spend a day on it.
[soft music]
Do you wanna walk back through the woods?
- Yeah. - It's nicer.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
BETH: Yeah, no, wait. I can't, um--
my cell phone died. Can you use your phone light?
- Mine doesn't have a flashlight, but it's okay.
- No, okay. Uh, actually, it's not okay
'cause I can't see anything, and I don't know where I am.
Can you stop walking?
- It's okay. I know these woods.
I've lived here my whole life.
- Yeah, but, you know, I feel scared.
I don't feel okay about it.
- It's okay, it's okay. - No, I--
Can you-- can we get a light?
I'm not walking if I can't see.
- I've got you. Hey, trust me.
♪ ♪
It's okay.
YOUNG JANE: Come on, Bethy, get in the pool.
YOUNG BETH: It's not our pool.
YOUNG JANE: The Solbergs said we could use it anytime,
and this is anytime. Come on in.
Come on! - Fine.
YOUNG JANE: Yes. - [laughs]
YOUNG JANE: It's not cold. You little baby.
You little baby, you're so cold.
YOUNG BETH: I am a little baby.
[laughter]
YOUNG JANE: Don't get dizzy.
Pull your legs up. Okay.
Trust me. I got you.
- I do. - Straighten your legs.
- I trust you. - There you go.
Yeah. And just float.
- Oh, is this like someone's lawn?
- I know the guy who lives here.
He's never home.
BETH: Oh, okay.
- I called you from right here the other night.
I sat there.
- You called me?
- They have great reception here.
- I didn't know you called me.
- Your voicemail isn't set up. - I know.
- Might have been over here, actually.
- [sighs] Wow.
Are you sure nobody's home?
- He's never there.
It's a waste of really excellent reception.
- Should we just undress ourselves?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- I think that's better. - Yeah.
- It's easier. - Here.
[indistinct chatter] - Can I put my shirt on it?
- Yeah. You could put anything on it.
♪ ♪
This is called a wrap dress.
- Oh. - Because it wraps around.
- Oh, yeah. It's kind of like a robe.
- I don't know, yeah. I guess it is.
- I'm gonna take my boots off.
- Yeah. [sighs]
I'm gonna take my bra off.
♪ ♪
[zipper pulls]
♪ ♪
Would you--would you do that
but, like, side to side instead?
Yeah.
Just like that.
Oh, wait, would you go back to doing the thing
I just said when I said just like that?
Yeah, that's perfect.
It's not as easy to put on as you would think.
What are you thinking about?
- Ticks.
- Tits? - Ticks.
- Dicks? - Ticks.
GUY ON PORCH: Ticks!
BETH: Oh, my God!
JOHN: Fuck, fuck, oh, fuck. [laughter]
Oh. [laughter]
It's okay. It's totally--
- [laughing] Oh, my God.
Wait, let me just--
[laughter] What the fuck?
Oh, God. I can't believe that.
- The woman who lives there is selling her blueberry bushes.
I'm gonna buy a couple next month.
- Yeah, yeah. No, I-I really, I can't--
I can't believe that.
- I know, she's practically giving them away.
- No, no, no. But that was insane.
I mean, wait, I'm sorry. I'm--I'm--
I'm, like, not okay. - With what?
- Like, with--with--you know.
Like, I'm actually not okay.
Like, you said that-- you said he wasn't home.
JOHN: I thought he wasn't.
- Yeah, but he-- but he was,
he was home, and you--
you said he wasn't, and I believed you.
- I'm sorry, I thought he wasn't there.
- Right, right, but you--
That was unsafe.
Just everything tonight was-- has been unsafe.
- Beth, I'm sorry. I didn't think he was home.
- No, no, I--but I--but I-- you told me to trust you,
and I like totally trusted you, and I felt close to you.
- I thought he wasn't home. - Right, okay.
You keep saying that. Okay.
You keep repeating yourself. I hear you.
You lied.
And you have a fucking girlfriend, okay?
You have a girlfriend, and what am I doing?
What am I even doing other than becoming my fucking mother?
Fuck! Fuck, John!
Are you a sex addict? - No.
- No, are you? Are you a sex addict?
- No, I've gone years without sex.
- No, tell me the truth!
Is that like your friend's house and he watches
and he like films it? Tell me the fucking truth.
- No, not at all. - You have to tell me.
- No, he does have binoculars, but he's a bird watcher.
He has specific plants to attract hummingbirds.
- What the fuck are you talking about?
What does that mean?
- Beth, I thought he wasn't home.
- No, but you said you knew he wasn't, and he was.
- I want you to be my girlfriend.
- What the fuck are you talking about, John?
Or you're just saying to me shit to me, so I feel things.
That's what you're doing.
You're just saying shit to me
because you want me to trust you,
and you want me to need you.
Well, fuck you because I see you coming, okay?
I see you coming a mile a fucking way.
So nice try. Nice try.
- I thought he wasn't home. - No.
Stop repeating yourself. You keep saying that.
I hear you, okay? I'm leaving.
- Beth.
- No.
[soft tense music]
Fuck. John!
- Beth?
- I don't know where I am.
- I'll take you to your car. It's this way.
♪ ♪
- I'm sorry.
[slow rhythmic acoustic music]
♪ ♪
AFIE JURVANEN: ♪ I'm lost in the light ♪
♪ I pray for the night ♪
♪ To take me ♪
♪ To take you too ♪
♪ ♪
♪ After so many words ♪
♪ Still nothing's heard ♪
♪ Don't know what we should do ♪
♪ So if someone could see me now, let them see you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Was my greatest thrill ♪
♪ When we just stood still ♪
♪ You let me hold your hand till I had my fill ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Even counting sheep ♪
♪ Don't help me sleep ♪
♪ I just toss and turn right there beside you ♪
♪ ♪
♪ So if someone could help me now ♪
- It's so easy.