After that wild movie night, it’s time for the mayor to shift her attention back to her primary duty.

That’s right — the mayor is not only officiating the wedding, she’s also the official wedding planner. And naturally, her chief-of-staff is here to ensure everything discussed in today’s meeting is accurately documented.

This meeting sets an important tone for the episode, because everyone has business to attend to since the wedding is in two weeks.

I really appreciate all the time cues we are getting this season.

I also appreciate the writers working overtime to remind us of the stakes this episode. Everyone needs to be super sure of the person they are going to go to this wedding with.

First couple: Mel and Jack (aka. the bride and groom)

Now, lest we ever, ever, ever forget, we have a tidy little reminder that Mel was married before.

But it’s cool because her ex is dead. No baggage there.

And Jack was married before.

You know, I really thought the writers forgot about this the same way they forgot about Adam (RIP). But no, they managed to make an entire episode about this. And so, off the royals go!

Okay, in case it’s not clear, Jack was SUPS young when he got married so it didn’t count.

And also, his ex, a non-threatening brunette, has zero feelings for him and has absolutely gone to therapy about this whole thing.

Honestly, this is a pretty f-ed up thing to do to someone who you just married. Especially when you going to get into on-campus married housing. That sh*t is not easy to come by.

Second couple: Hope and Vernon (surrogate parents of the bride and groom)

Vernon was supposed to walk Mel down the aisle, but then he got demoted, which is probably just as well considering this whole drilling-into-someone’s-head-without-authorization mess he’s gotten himself into.

Meanwhile, Hope has to visit her barn-owning ex, who was clearly emotionally abusive.

This is incredibly uncomfortable, and I absolutely hate this for Hope. But what are you gonna do when you have a homeless horse? Anyway, she should definitely go to the wedding with Vernon, not Roland.

Third couple: Brady and Lark

Actually, it looks like these two won’t be carpooling to the wedding together. Brady does not even care that Lark has an excuse for trying to scam him and sends her packing.

He just wanted to get over Lark by getting under Brie (ha!). Sadly though, he still has so many old mementos hanging around.

We all remember the significance of this tiara.

(Guys, I still think Lark started the fire. Is anyone even going to follow up on my hunch???)

Fourth couple: Preacher and Kaia

These two are totally solid, not just because but also mostly and absolutely because they are the only Black people in the main cast. But Kaia is a little distracted this episode because Brady has feelings for Brie (shock!) and Kaia, his new bostie (bestie + boss — you get it) knows. And now poor Kaia has a REAL BIG SECRET to keep. 🤫

She’s taking this whole thing pretty hard, which is odd considering she is works in the field of emergency management and just finished watching her BF go on trial for the body her firefighters found in the woods, but oooooooookay.

Fifth couple: Mike and Brie

These two are doing great. First, he still doesn’t know she cheated on him. Second,

A promotion to what, you ask?

Now, I find this odd because like Brie, Mike doesn’t appear to ever be at work, and also, when he is working, his work seems pretty patchy. Remember the whole unofficial-undercover-boat-explosion operation he ran? Also, shouldn’t the persecution have called him to the stand in Preacher’s trial? Just sayin’.

Anyway, I am going to go ahead and say that this promotion is likely going to coincide with a breakup. It’s only a matter of time before Brie and Brady get back together.

Sixth couple: Muriel and Cameron.

Okay, I am just hoping beyond hope these two get back together. He’s clearly been going through something since he left. I mean, look at this COVID beard!

So, grab your date and get ready for the event of the century!