2:01 - We're drinking Evil Twin Brewing Company's Fire Water - a pale ale brewed with jalapenos. The back of the label reads: 

Many of us have a passionate love-hate relationship with painfully spicy food and beverage - there is simply something substantial fascinating, thrilling and a little frightening about a burning sensation in your mouth. Scientists are at a loss why humans (and only humans) find such great joy in tasty pain. Perhaps it’s what makes us human - it takes a complicated brain, mixed with weird self-awareness to enjoy events that the body are programmed to treat as a threat but the mind knows better. Test your human skills with this burning beer - mind over body. Fire walk with me.

It's the perfect drink for an episode where everyone is playing with fire.

7:47 - We talk overall feelings and thoughts on the episode

12:13 - The episode starts out with Fred and June sitting by the fire, playing scrabble, drinking scotch. There's a lot happening in this scene. It's reckless but also charming. There's imagery of hell even as June talks about heaven. The writers weave a poem, from Margaret Attwood's Power Politics, into June's monologue - it's 4 lines of masterful writing, and used perfectly in the scene.

28:45 - We get a flashback to June and Luke's first meeting. Moira is not only present but initiates the interaction. 

38:47 - The flashback ends. June is eating breakfast. Rita is surely. Nick is hovering. And Serena manages to ruin everything with her terrible timing. Serena takes June outside and makes her an offer she can't refuse. 

50:02 - With the weight of Serena's proposal lingering over her, June goes shopping and sees that Emily is back. New Ofglen confronts June with a harsh reality, that her life is better than it was before. 

1:00:18 - June is having a moment with her writing in the closet when Serena comes to escort her to Nicks apartment. This faux ceremony is juxtaposed with June's first sexual tryst with Luke. The differences are jarring. 

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