In Episode 6 of Everything I Know About Love, 5-year-old Maggie and her friends Birdy and Amara are getting ready to go to the pub. They’re interrupted by their older counterparts, Nell and Amara, who tell them about a rumor circulating among the students about Maggie. According to the rumor, she’s being slut-shamed in a student chat room. ..
Maggie is overwhelmed by the posts and says she feels like a mess. Birdy comforts her and says: “ You are a hurricane and a rainbow, you blow through a place living the most spectacular thing as you go.’’ Maggie feels glad that Birdy sees her differently from other people.
Maggie is lying in bed, doing personality quizzes on the internet and characters of a friend. Birdy comes to check up on her, she doesn’t realize that Maggie overheard her conversation. Birdy suggests they hang out later and Maggie agrees.
Meanwhile, Amara is visiting her family to celebrate her father’s birthday. Her mom is worried about her giving up her passion for dancing and being unhappy. Her mother asks her to think about what she will regret between choosing a job she hates because of its financial security or living her dream.
Maggie and Birdy enjoy spending time together baking cookies and getting makeovers. However, Nell interrupts them with her need to have phone sex with her boss. This is seriously inappropriate behavior. ..
Maggie is frustrated with herself for making a mistake that may get her fired. She has a heated conversation with Kyle, who tells her about his decision to be on the show. Maggie is surprised by Kyle’s explanation and decides to stay on the show.
Amara has finally decided on her future and has decided to pursue dancing. She also decides to go on a date with Rege, a guy she had been casually having sex with. She is still waiting for a call about the results of her last callback and she is hopeful she will get it. ..
Back at the house, Amara informs the girls that she quit her job and they cheer her on. To celebrate, Amara’s good news: they drink and decide to play a drinking game called evil friends. This was certainly not a good idea.
The girls are having a great time playing the game, eating, and dancing around the house. As the game progresses, feelings get hurt and Nell loses her cool. In the heat of the moment, she confesses her phone sex with her married boss to her friends. Birdy immediately calls her out for having an affair with her boss, and Amara asks her to chill out. She calls Birdy boring and judgmental. ..
Birdy says that she is not comfortable with Nell’s decision so she will move out and move in with Nathan. This is huge news to her friends and Amara expresses her disappointment. Birdy says this was a hard decision for her and Maggie says it was hard on her too.
Maggie and Birdy are in a relationship and Birdy tells Maggie that they can’t continue as they have before because Maggie needs to grow up and be her person. Maggie accuses Birdy of becoming a version of Nathan and losing herself to be in the relationship.
Birdy says she doesn’t care about the hurt she’s causing, it’s better than living under Maggie’s shadow. She asks Birdy whether she is moving out or ending their friendship. ..
The Episode Review
The girls’ relationship has come to a head, and the strain is clear. I am more disappointed with Nell’s decision to be her boss’ mistress and Amara supporting her than anything else. I understand being a free spirit but at what cost? It is pitiable that their friendship has come to this. Let us see if they can still salvage it in the finale.
