Hello Readers!
I’m back to a review this week, and my show of choice is Mixology. I’d
heard about it from a couple of my friends, so I thought I might as well give
it a try. Sorry for the episode spoilers (this is pretty much a play-by-play of
the first episode).
The show opens on Tom and his two friends Cal and Bruce. Tom’s fiancé
has just left him, and now he’s back in the game. His friends are super
supportive about him finding a girl. They pick one out at the bar and encourage
him to go talk to her. As Tom walks away, they decide that she's way out of his
league, and they think he’s going to get eaten alive. At the start, it looks
like his friends might be right about that. His opening line has the words “I'm
a stranger” in it.
Then we get a little backstory on Tom. His dad left when he was six but
he didn't figure it out till he was nine. He was always trying to make his mom
happy, which Bruce’s voiceover says ruined his relationships with girls for 10
years. Then Tom and Laura met in college and later got engaged. When Laura
breaks up with him she says, “I'm just not feeling it anymore - everything
about you repulses me.” It’s a self-esteem hit for Tom.
Back to the present, Tom thanks Maya (the girl he approached) for
talking to him. Then we get a little backstory on her. Maya is the third of six
girls, and her father raised her like a son. She loved conflict and hated
people, so she became a lawyer. She says to her friend Liv that she has to date
pro-athletes - they're the only real men left. It makes you wonder if Tom is
going to get anywhere with Maya.
You begin to think Tom’s going to give up when he admits to not being
very good at talking to women. And then things get worse when he starts talking
about his ex and begins to cry. Maya, clearly fed-up with Tom’s whining, says,
“Your fiancé left you because you're a sniveling little bitch. Every girl wants
a nice guy, but that they also need a man. Figure out what you want and go
after it. That's what real men do every day. It's not that difficult.”
From a girl’s perspective, this is great advice. And it seems to be
exactly what Tom needs to snap out of his funk. He gives Maya a hug and then
asks for her number. When she tries to refute him, he says he’s only following
her advice. As she writes down his number she says, “You realize this has been
the worst pick-up in human history.” He jokes it’ll be a great story to tell
the kids.
When he goes back to his friends, they are extremely impressed with him.
When Liv arrives, Maya recounts the story, and she says it felt good to give
him her number.
A couple of other characters are also introduced in the episode. There
are two sisters. The older one, Jessica, is there to meet Ron who she knows
from an online dating site. He shows up and throws up in Jessica's bag because
he’s so drunk. He says he'd offer to buy her a new purse, but he just lost all
his money. Then he leaves.
Ron is still outside the bar when Liv goes out to take a phone call. He
asks her for gum, but she doesn’t have any. There’s something between them, and
he asks her to stay for a drink as the camera flashes to her engagement ring.
Finally there’s Kacey the waitress who breaks up with Dominic the
bartender. When she confronts him about his reaction to their break-up, he
calls her by the wrong name, which makes her mad.
Anyways, I guess I’ll have to watch the rest of the series to find out
what happens with the rest of these people. So far, I think it's a pretty realistic portrayal of bar life.
If you’ve watched, I’d love to know your thoughts!
Thanks for reading!
-Emily
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