Alas, the Folder of Secrets falls into the wrong hands, gets photocopied dozens of times and circulated all over school! Lux's burgeoning friendship with the popular kid, thus, ends in infamy as said girl discovers that Lux is a big fat liar.

So Lux holes up in daddy's bar in the same night as Cate's program's big Drink-a-Date. Furious at her mother, Lux grabs the mic and announces to the bar-ful of people/listeners that - guess what - Cate and Ryan are engaged to each other. Throw that plot device away, thank you.

The move single-handedly ruins the very premise of Cate and Ryan's show, wipes out the source of their (supposedly unconsummated) sexual tension that their fans love, and we all wonder how Cate can go to work the following day.

Things like these always come up on Life Unexpected, and they always have you torn. This time, however, there is no conflict: because as much as Cate is annoying and trying too hard, Lux is obviously being a big baby. The intentions are worlds apart - Cate wanted to help, Lux wanted to hurt. That Lux was tremendously upset is no excuse to willfully subject her mother to such torment - just to get even. It is just thankless and immature.

We understand that Lux is tremendously protective of her feelings, her childhood considered, but just the same, just like any other kid, we remember that she can get engrossed in her own world, with this delusion that the world revolves around her. In the immortal words of Kim Kardashian, "that is so immaturrrreeeee."

Finally, you'd think these two would get along, considering all the sappy, overplayed heart-to-heart's they're having, but apparently not. So as Life Unexpected tinkers every so closely in the brink of moronic and cliche sentimentality, it's scenes like the final one on this episode - when Cate goes home and silently rejoices that Lux is on her attic room - that can save it.


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