"One Million Little Things" recap: Season 1, Episode 8

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A million little things"Gary is a fool so both understandable (scream at Maggie because he's scared of his death) and very problematic (sleeping with someone's fit because he's afraid of Maggie's death) in the episode of this week, giving Eddie a chance of his money as the creator of the group the worst decision possible in most cases. situations.

But there is still a restaurant to open and a menu to lock, so why would not friends all meet in the same room, drink a lot of wine and hope everything will be fine? Read on for highlights of "Fight or Flight".

Steal the unwanted skies | At the opening hour, Maggie takes a plane for two with a man we have never met before. They have a good time until a storm rises and the guy – who is sitting in the pilot's seat – has trouble controlling the aircraft. (It probably does not help either that he looks for a bottle of Jack Daniels while the plane loses altitude. "" Chad, I can not help you if you do not leave me, "shouts Maggie," How can I help you if you do not even know where's the way? "She screams for him to get up, mentioning that she has to go to (which is our most blatant clue that the screenplay may not be real), but a moment later, Maggie wakes up in her Boston apartment: All this was a nightmare.

GARY ON A TEAR | Elsewhere, Eddie shows Gary an apartment he wants to rent. But Gary is too busy running dating apps to pay much attention to what his friend says. "I'm back on the market, he notes, and the women like to shop." Eddie orders him to call Maggie instead, but Gary does not want to talk about it, so Ed badumes that Gary ruined everything. the psychiatrist. "You're always as fast as thinking it's my fault," says Gary, after a few negative comments about Eddie's sobriety and his current couch surfing practice. "Well, guess what, you do not know!"

Gary then goes to Maggie's apartment, where she hears him say "I can not worry about it" by the door when she pretends not to be at home and her place of work, where her colleague informed her of her departure. So he goes to the next logical step: he takes the plane to Chicago, follows him and asks that he come back to Beantown to talk with Maggie.

Tom (aka the guy who reported a few episodes of soda in the Mags) is relieved to hear that Maggie is not dead, but he is not ready to go east for another intervention. He mentions, however, that Maggie's difficulties in letting people in are linked to a guy named Chad, who "made a number on her".

Maggie's secret is out | Back in Boston, Maggie's insistence that she can no longer see Rome as an unofficial patient makes Regina come to her apartment, demanding to know why. "You give me a good reason not to be able to continue seeing my husband," says Gina. "Because I'm dying," Maggie said, crying.

Gina shares the news with Rome and Dalila, who join her to ambush Maggie at home. She badumes they are there to try to convince her to go for chemotherapy, but she is overwhelmed when all they want is drinking wine, eating bread and cheese and spending time. Maggie begins to sob, surprising others. This should not happen, she explained. "I did not think that one guy I ended up with in a church bathroom would take me to friends who would support me in living the rest of my life the way I wanted to. live."

She adds that she has pushed them all back because she wanted them to avoid the pain of her eventual death. It also makes a vague reference to the impossibility of saving a person from his past and the fact that it hurts. Gina tells her that she can choose to give up treatment, but she can not choose to expel them from her life.

That night, when Maggie has a nightmare, Rome suddenly finds herself in it, too … she catches her by the hand and helps to try to straighten the plane when it is makes diving. "We are in the same boat," Dream Rome told him before waking up.

GUESS WHO WENT TO DINNER? | The next night, Rome goes to Maggie's apartment to take her to an intimate tasting session that Regina has planned at the restaurant for her friends. But Maggie is too busy storing her things in boxes: she pre-packed all her belongings, she says when she is in a hurry, so her parents do not have to sort her things after her death. Rather than trying to stop or distract her, he joins her and wants to tell her that even though she could not save the person from her past, she saved her.

Then Mags changes his mind, gets pumped and joins everyone during the tasting. Eddie is there (and he's been made aware of his cancer too), as is Katherine and his Hunter job, honey. Wow, Regina's food has to be really Well, if that can get Katherine to be in the same room as her adulterous husband AND the woman with whom he slept.

Gary shows up then, but he does not want to engage with Maggie. "I will not care more about your life than yourself," he says. he Is accept Eddie's apology for presuming the break was his fault, and he tells Ed that he can crash on his couch as long as he wants.

Everything is going pretty well until Gary knows that almost all members of the group of friends are aware of Maggie's illness – and of her choice – and that is no problem. "Are you really going to stand there and watch this woman kill herself?" Cree does. "Shame on you all!"

Maggie does not give up her anger until he talks about "a loser named Chad," then replies that he has no idea what he's talking about. He spits when she's right … because he does not know her at all. He goes out, followed by Ashley, who asks him if he wants to have a drink. "No, I'm already sweating and shouting at people," he replies (ha), but he changes his mind when he learns it's his birthday.

At the end of their episode, they fall into his apartment and kiss as if they were paid by the toddler. At one point, Gary seems to be backing up and reconsidering his decision, but he goes back immediately. We do not see them actually banging on the sheets, but that's probably what happened, right?

WHO WAS CHAD? | Meanwhile, Rome drives Maggie home. On the way, she tells him the whole story: Chad was his brother, he was a 19-year-old alcoholic who was drugging himself for his depression and he wrapped his car around a tree while driving in a state of disrepair. drunk at night. she had gone out with friends to the movies.

"Since then, I have spent my life trying to keep people from falling on the tree," she says crying, explaining that he needs her and that she is not the. "Is that why you will not save yourself?" Gently asks Rome. She seems to consider this for a moment, then smiles. "Do we see each other on Friday at 1 am?" She asks, getting out of the car.

Back at the restaurant, Katherine confesses to Hunter that she used it to make Eddie jealous – it does not seem to bother him – and then gives him a kiss before leaving. Then Katherine sits down for dessert with Gina, who inadvertently tells her that Delilah is pregnant but quickly adds "with Jon's baby". "Wow," says Katherine, "and I thought my life was complicated. "

Meanwhile, at home, Maggie wobbles and then fainted, landing on the floor next to the splinters of the glbad of water she was holding. She still has the nightmare, but this time, Chad tells her that she could never have saved him. Then he drops a parachute and says, "That's where I leave you" and opens the aircraft door.

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