‘Younger’ Season 6 episode 6 Recap: Liza in the Sky with Drugs.
Apparently micro-dosing is hot now.
Younger is back for another week, with another chance for Darren Star and co to hold a mirror up to millennial culture and make me say, “I didn’t ask to be born.”
“Merger, She Wrote” takes our heroine to a ‘microdosing retreat’ (good grief) which sounds like a good and helpful thing for someone as jittery as Liza to do.
We kick off with Maggie in some incredible sexy denim jumpsuit, hanging ropes and announcing she is going to be suspending herself to paint the roof. She is also concerned she is losing her mojo (very Austin Powers, do I make you randy baby) after having to wait to order a drink at a bar.
Liza says that her and Charles are not in a good place because of their competition at work.
Maggie suggests a merger, an incredibly simple solution that apparently none of these extremely intelligent women have considered yet.
At Millennial, an insufferable blonde white guy named Travis is saying words like ‘biohack’ and ‘self-actualisation.’ He has apparently written a book about microdosing, the human equivalent of turning it off and turning it on again.
Unclear why Diana ever wakes up and comes to work at this point.
He is hosting some kind of LSD retreat, and wants his future publisher to experience expanding their mind, maaaaaan, so Liza agrees to go and participate in hopes of securing the book.
Millennial is also holding voice auditions for the audio version of their boomer erotica novel, The Seasoned Slut. Unhappy with the options, Diana reads aloud a paragraph featuring the line “Rub-a-dub-dub, who’s the big boy in this tub” and reveals her aptitude for boomer ASMR.
Everyone agrees Diana should be the voice of the book.
Over drinks, Liza brings up the idea of a merger to Charles. He points out that Mercury has no cash flow yet, and instead invites Liza to come work with him at Mercury.
She refuses and says her alliance lies with Kelsey, because she is not a goddamn snake. Get a load of this guy!
Turns out Charles is also going to the microdosing retreat to attempt to win the book. What could go wrong?
Liza and Charles arrive the next day, and are immediately given a nanodose of LSD by a girl with an asymmetrical pixie cut to start their weekend. Unclear on the legality of this whole operation.
The face of one person about to have a good time and one person who is Liza.
Oh, who else is here? Josh is here because he knows the author, Travis. Hate it when my girlfriend’s ex shows up constantly, looking sexy in a leather jacket.
There are 8 million people in New York, and approximately 3 million of them are Josh.
“Was that sexy?” asks Diana, while recording passages about throbbing nipples or throbbing tongues, or something of that nature. It is, of course, very sexy.
Zane shows up to take over the recording studio with definitely guilty murderer Audrey Colbert, an extremely normal and chill background storyline. He accidentally leaves the microphone line open while talking about how crazy and definitely guilty she is, top quality slapstick.
Back at the retreat, Josh charges into the room and starts kissing Liza. BUT WAIT IT’S ACTUALLY CHARLES, who apparently did not take his dose of LSD and isn’t feeling it like Liza is.
I have never taken LSD and this seems completely nightmarish, not for me, no thank you.
This confusion continues to the breakfast table, where Josh and Charles have apparently swapped voices. Liza takes herself to go see the nurse because she is ‘feeling a little weird,’ a wise choice. What could it all mean? I’m no rocket surgeon, but probably that you’re having some conflicting feelings about your ex-boyfriend.
Meanwhile, Maggie’s ceiling suspension timeline goes amiss and she finds herself suspended upside down from the roof. Catching a neighbour’s attention, he responds by… jerking off while Maggie finds a way to cut the ropes and get herself down.
I love a realistic storyline about helpful neighbourly men.
Back with nurse Maureen, Liza is battling with her feelings for both men while on LSD. Nurse Maureen, being a nurse at a microdosing retreat, of course suggests she simply has both. A little polyamory to solve everything.
This leads into some kind of… glorious drug induced dance scene. Liza is certainly having a good time, and so is the costume department down at Younger.
Josh and Charles have been bonding, mostly via laughing at Liza’s drug-induced psychosis, and Charles gets all sentimental about the idea of family. His mind has been expanded. The paradigm is disrupted. Back at Millennial he proposes a merger to Kelsey for the price of one dollar, because this is his FAMILY. Aww.
This Week’s Fashion Champion:
A truly dull field this week, with muted winter looks and an uncharacteristically demure Diana. I do have to respect her floaty black boomer erotica look.
Team whom?
This week we should all be team ‘don’t take illicit drugs with your current boyfriend and ex-boyfriend who you are still deeply in love with.’
Lucy Valentine is a freelance writer, political satirist, podcast co-host and all-round Melbourne stereotype. She is extremely online and tweeting at @LucyXIV