Zen and the Art of Skateboarding: HBO's Betty Episode 2
Wow. Episode two of Betty was SO much better than Episode 01. Watching this made me feel so many feels. Like I just felt that nice sticky summer feeling of being busy and hanging out with your friends. I specifically thought of a time Quell was judging something for Redbull at LES and then we went and got pizza after and then I skated to a roof and a bar and it felt like the day never ended. Whatever enough about me…
I want to know everything about the characters and where this is going!!! I was genuinely disappointed when this episode ended.
This as always is not sponsored, I just really admire Skate Kitchen and I think what they’ve done and continue to do to spread visibility for SO many groups of people in skateboarding is incredible. Their show is genuinely diverse and AUTHENTIC and they really care about portraying it that way. I think these girls really deserve so much and it’s awesome to see what this series will do for skateboarding. Let’s get into it!
We start the episode off with small cuts to check in with our characters. We start with a look into Honeybear aka Elizabeth’s??! life. strict household, states island native, religious? We don’t get much more than that but maybe foreshadowing. Cut to Kirt and Indigo living their summer truth. Skating in Union Square, eating ice cream, HANGING OUT…remember that?
Anyway, Janay and Donald are filming some sort of youtube video about Janay doing a graffiti tour. Donald turns off the comments on their channel because he didn’t like what they were saying about Janay. Sure Donald…
Now, we’re at Fat Kid wooooo! It’s my favorite park honestly, especially for beginner skating. I don’t know why but it’s kind of mellow and it’s huge so you get a bit of practice with speed and your approach.
Kirt and Indigo see Camille and they’re still not happy about it. Camille’s mystery bae shows up and she starts filming clips of him on her phone. The girls are having fun without her, teaching Indigo a little bit. We get some vibey moments of all the girls doing tricks around the park.
“You know those betties don’t you” a classic name title drop from Camille’s bae aka Bambi. Camille goes to talk to bae about music and editing and they both admit to watching each other’s clips. Later Camille rolls in shit and Bambi offers to help her clean it off.
Janay starts to list her ideas about her show to Honeybear. Honeybear starts to mention that there are negative comments around Donald, Janays best friend and she realizes the comments weren’t about Janay they were about him. She finds Donald and starts to scream at him in the park about lying about the comments. Allegedly Donald didn’t like someone who liked him and she accuses him of being a predator. he starts to feel trapped and Janay tries to help him.
This casting agent scouts Indigo in the park and the boys start to laugh at her while the other girls get a little jealous it seems that they weren’t selected. She then bumps into one of Camilles friends, Luis, and he starts screaming at her. Kirt starts a fight with him to defend Indigo. Indigo starts to get really mad and quits skateboarding. After Kirt finds the girl who has been lingering and screams that she’s gay. they get into a small argument about the girl and she leaves Kirt.
Kirt, Honeybear and Indigo meet up randomly a lot later on the quest for Indigo to keep skating. Kirt apologizes with rave toys and sneak into the park. There’s a beautiful night skating scene that once again makes me tear up a little bit. They skate around and get super high. While laying at the bottom of the bowl, Honeybear admits to liking Ash.
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