(Warning: Some spoilers below.)
Shane took the parenting lead this week as she attempted to enroll her nine-year-old half brother Shay in elementary school. She’s still awkward about her new-found parenting role, but is making a genuine attempt to try, motivated by her own dismal childhood sexperience in foster care. We’re still waiting for her supposed PTA liason.
Tina and Bette’s daughter is only seen through a picture, but there’s a lovely “let’s teach the straight people about our families” moment at Tina and Henry’s lesbian-straight mixer party. One of the straight women asks Bette what she’d do if Angelica one day decides she wants to live with her father. Tina responds “We don’t call him the father. We call him the donor.” It’s unclear, though, if Tina is hoping her new beau, Henry, will step into the father’s role.
Helena’s children (remember them?) seem to have been dropped from the storyline. That’s too bad. Given that previous scenes of Helena and her children have focused on her spoiling them with gifts, I think it would be interesting to see her grapple with how to be a frugal parent. As her own mother said when she cut her off from the family fortune, “You need to know that people love you even if you are penniless.”
AfterEllen has Scribe Grrl’s full recap.