My Mad Fat Diary series 2, episode 1 aired tonight and we’re so happy to see Rae and the gang again! Check out the recap of the episode and let us know what you thought.
Finn: The Sex Wizard
This series starts with Rae writing in a new diary, since her first one is full. She gets out a notebook and starts writing to Tix.
She starts talking about her friends, and then it cuts to Finn about to finger her, where she then cuts off and says, “I better start at the beginning,” and the series takes off the day after her mum’s wedding.
The gang is hanging out at the food shop, and they’re asking Rae about why she was in the hospital. She explains that her stay was voluntary, and when Finn asks if she’s all right, she says yes. Lies!
Cut to a scene between Rae and Finn at a bowling alley. She thinks it might have been a date, but Chloe doesn’t. Chloe says she thinks Finn loves her as a friend, but Rae states that she doesn’t want that. She wants him to go down on her so long he needs gills. …Damn, girl.
Rae visits Finn at soccer practice and he gets hurt. She’s helping him clean the wound, and while talking to him she asks if he thinks she’s weird. She starts blabbing about how she’s not paranoid about it when Finn gives her their first kiss! The scene cuts back to Finn fingering Rae in her bed, and she’s wondering if she might have to fake an orgasm when she realizes she definitely does not. Finn is a sex wizard.
Rae’s mum walks in on them and asks Rae to get red cabbage for dinner, but they managed to turn around quick enough so that she doesn’t realize what’s happening. So she starts saying how happy she is and starts crying. Awkward.
College, Sex and Finn’s Butt
Next, Rae is with Kester and says she’s happy and stopped writing her diary. She’s not struggling anymore, so it’s not useful. But Kester wants her to join a group therapy session every week, and Danny Two Hats is there and would like to see her. Rae says she’ll think about it, and leaves before Kester talks about a subject they’re avoiding.
Izzy, Chloe and Rae are talking about what they imagine their first time to be like when Chloe thinks they both need to lose their virginity before college starts, and then they decide the gang should go camping. Rae realizes that college starts the coming Monday, not next Monday: Cue freakout. They decide go camping that Saturday, despite not having a tent, and Archie is not amused.
Chloe then takes Rae and Izzy to a lingerie shop for the camping trip. Rae thinks none of the stuff was made for a woman whose body wasn’t pretty or delicate, but she ends up buying something and going to Finn’s. And he’s in the shower! YUM! She gets a glimpse of his ass through the door.
But then Rae has second thoughts about her sexiness and leaves.
Sex in an RV
Rae starts watching TV, but it seems she can’t get the image of Finn’s ass out of her head. Her mum comes home with a new TV (with a built in VHS!) and puts it in her room, but Rae is upset because she doesn’t own any videos. She goes to her mum’s room to see what video they could be watching and it’s Missionary Impossible. She notices that the porn actress doesn’t have any pubic hair and decides to go get waxed herself, bringing Izzy with her.
Back at Kester’s, Rae says she’s started liking herself and she finally has a boyfriend. Kester doesn’t believe her, though, so they play word association and it comes out that Rae thinks she’s fat. But she insists she likes herself and leaves.
The gang gets set to go camping and Chop only got two tents, so now they can’t get all sexy. But then Izzy mentions that she’s already lost her virginity to Chop earlier that day. Now Rae’s the only one who’s still a virgin. Archie comes by to Rae and says that Chloe keeps touching him, and he doesn’t like it. Rae doesn’t like that her underwear doesn’t give any support. They both hate camping.
Finn and Rae go for a walk and Finn says he has a surprise, and takes her to an RV. He says, “When I said to be continued, I meant to be continued,” and they start making out in the RV surrounded by candles. Awww!
Finn starts to unbutton her shirt when Rae freaks out and slaps his hand away, and goes to freshen up in the bathroom. She sees a photo of them together, and she starts to think he’s out of her league. She doesn’t understand why they’re together and fakes a headache to get out of it.
Don’t Touch the Gay Boy
Archie goes to Rae and says that while she and Finn were gone that night he had to sleep in the tent alone with Chloe, who hit on him and got in her underwear for him. He pretended he was asleep, and he doesn’t know what to do with Chloe.
That Monday, Rae’s mum drives her to college. She says that four months ago she wouldn’t have thought Rae was well enough to do that, but now she has friends and is happy. Rae finally realizes that she has Finn now, and it’s not going to be like last time.
Rae and Finn walk into the college holding hands, but Rae thinks everyone is laughing at her and staring. She thinks about how fat she thinks she is, and lets go of Finn’s hand and goes to the toilets. She has a panic attack outside of the bathroom and runs to the fire escape and accidentally trips up the fire alarm. There’s a guy standing and smoking who saw her do it, but he doesn’t say anything.
Rae’s monologue talks to Tix and says she’s been in denial about being better, and goes to visit Kester. She tells him she misses Tix, and asks why Kester isn’t upset. But he’s devastated. She’s sorry she couldn’t go to Tix’s funeral, and Kester says it doesn’t matter as long as she says goodbye.
Rae visits Tix’s grave, and drops off the letter she wrote to her. She starts a new diary at home, and ends up going to the support group Kester mentioned. She sees Danny Two hats, who has no hats! The guy who was next to the exit door at the college when she tripped the alarm is there, and his name is Liam. New boy?
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