The women at the conference hope to have non-committal sex with speakers. Rita has her sights set on Sam, one of the speakers. They bond at the pool and she later confesses her dreams of going to New York. He suggests that he take her to his favourite place there some day.
The teens get dressed to party and dance to the song that Cookie used to lead them in. Afterwards, they collapse. Drunk and high, they start talking about how they all went from kids to women overnight. Everyone expected them to be traditional Indian women.
Rita says she doesn’t know what they’ve gone through because she abandoned them after Cookie died. Teenie storms out. ..
Rita turns around when she sees Sam with a younger woman and doesn’t see him push her hand away.
Rita later meets Teenie in the bathroom. She says a younger woman swooped in on Sam. Teenie remarks that, in the city, men don’t look at you if you’re over 25.
“What do you mean?” I ask. Rita looks at me with confusion. “I thought honouring women meant respecting them and treating them with respect.” ..
“Thank you,” they say in unison.
“Except nobody is helping us.” Rita then tells Teenie that she doesn’t know what she’s going through. From her perspective, though, it looks like she has it good. Teenie, however, wants what Rita has. ..
The two people in the story miss the old days when they could just sit on the bed together and watch TV.
At the bar, Sam waits for a while, likely hoping to find Rita. She never does, because she and Teenie crash in bed together to eat junk food and watch TV.
The Episode Review
In another respect, this episode is a powerful story about the power of family.
Reservation Dogs is an important show for the community because it tells the story of women who have always been important to their reservation. The plot of the episode does not deviate from this theme because it is about the community and how these women have contributed to it. ..
Teenie hasn’t been there, as Rita takes care to point out. But the episode does well to pull her into the story and give her character a sense of purpose and direction. I’m excited to see where she and Rita will go from here. ..
