Previously on Privileged, Megan Smith (Joanna Garcia) left her job at a tabloid to become the new tutor for teenage billionaires Rose (Lucy Hale) and Sage (Ashley Newbrough) in Palm Beach, Florida. Turns out, Megan grew up not so far from there, and left behind a sister, Lily (Kristina Apgar), with whom she is not on good terms.

Tonight's Privileged continues at the fancy dress charity ball that ended last week's episode. Laurel Limoges (Anne Archer) has taken Megan under her wing to meet and schmooze with high-powered society types. After espying Megan's trashy sister making a splash at the party, Laurel disgustedly wrinkles her nose. Megan pretends not to know Lily at all. Tonight's Privileged is all about honesty, indeed.

The twins, meanwhile, are in crisis mode. Rose is devastated that her ex-boyfriend Max is at the party with another girl. Megan advises her to be honest and tell Max that she wants him back. Sage disagrees and wants to stage a multi-phase plan to win him back. Rose favors her sister's plan, which involves pretending that Megan's childhood friend Charlie (Michael Cassidy), who is working the party as a waiter, is Rose's new boyfriend. Max, however, is a douche-in-training, who greets Rose with a very classy, "You look hot."

Megan asks Charlie to ask Lily to leave the party, but before he can ask, Megan runs into Lily smoking a joint while flirting with Will (Brian Hallisay). Megan and Lily get into an argument about how Megan left home five years ago and never called. Megan counters that she was busy working while Lily was only into having a trashy good time. The tiff escalates until everyone within a mile radius starts to take notice, including Laurel. Uh oh, the gig is up. Laurel is wise to the fact that Megan lied to her earlier, and they now have a "trust issue." Megan tries to make up for it by offering to help the daughter of one of Laurel's business associate, the president of Sephora, with her application to Yale, but Laurel is not so easily won over.

Sage bitches Megan out for lying to her grandmother about Lily after telling Rose that honesty is the best policy. Then Sage engineers a meeting between Charlie and Rose for the benefit of Max.

Megan busies herself the following day getting prepared to help Delilah (the daughter of the Sephora guy who looks like she's about 35) with her Yale essay and to help the twins with their Great Gatsby book reports. Laurel commends Megan for being so on top of things, which leads to my favorite awkward Megan moment of the episode:

Megan: "I like to be on top. Of things. In work situations. [awkward pause] Should we get started?"

It's all in the delivery with this line, and Joanna Garcia nails it. Unfortunately, she gets interrupted by Lily, calling to ask for Will's phone number. (Will had given her a ride home from the party last night.) Much to her dismay, Megan assumes that Lily has sunk her claws into Will already. Also, unfortunately, Laurel is still testy with Megan because she hasn't gotten over the "trust issue."

Rose and Sage ditch out on Megan's Gatsby session in order to get on with phase two of Sage's "Get Max Back" plan. They steal Megan's car (even though neither has a license) to drive down to the crab shack where Charlie works. They snap a picture of Rose hugging Charlie, which Sage immediately emails out to everyone at school.

Megan is in the middle of telling Delilah about how she doesn't come from money, and having the opportunity to work for a powerful woman like Laurel is a great opportunity for her when Rose calls to tell her that she and Sage are about to get arrested. Sage backed the car into something in the parking lot of the crab shack and tried to bribe the cop into letting them go. Megan gets Marco (Allan Louis) to rush her down there to straighten things out. The cop gives Megan a ticket and the girls a warning because Rose turns on the water works with her sob story about her ex-boyfriend.

Megan apologizes to Charlie for getting ensnared in Sage's plan, and their conversation leads Megan to realize that she should open up to Laurel about everything. (There's also a little bit of dramatic irony when Charlie inquires about whether Megan likes Will. Oh, Charlie! Your heart is going to break soon, isn't it?)

Megan rushes back to the house – I feel like she's always rushing off somewhere in this show – to ask Laurel to give her a formal interview to come clean with her background. She insists that she is "a strong, positive sack" (as opposed to a sad one), and that her upbringing has nothing to do with who she is now. Laurel realizes that Megan has become a strong woman despite the hardships she has struggled and agrees to the interview. She hires her, which is fortunate: otherwise there wouldn't be anymore episodes of Privileged.

Max, the douche in training, comes crawling back to Rose and wants to get back together with him. (He came to this realization because he's not that into the other girl, and Rose was looking "slamming" the other night. Wow, he's a real class act.) Rose is overjoyed about this.

Naturally, Sage and Megan must have an argument about Rose getting back together with Max. Megan realizes that Sage doesn't even like Max, but she helped Rose get back together with him so that Rose wouldn't take Megan's advice. Sage says that she is a much better sister to Rose than Megan is to Lily, which leads Megan to give Lily a call to try to apologize. But wouldn't you know it? Megan sees Lily down on the beach kissing the hot neighbor boy, Will.



-Debbie Chang, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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