We're 50, 50 partners.
And I’m telling you, it's going to be different this time.
Actually, 51,49.
A lot of people counted us out, but we are back
and we are better than ever.
How do you make it look so easy?
Well, the real question is why do men make it look so hard?
You find her trying to find a new publisher.
She's been given Minx,
so she's just shopping it around to try and find the right fit.
And they're all sounding, you know, exciting.
But there's something that's not quite right about them.
And then Doug comes to her and suggests Constance.
So her see her sort of partnering with someone that's got a lot of money,
and you just see how that money affects
the direction of the magazine.
- [Doug] It’s not about the magazine, it's about the man who launched the magazine.
Found the diamond in the rough. Right?
That's what Doug Renetti does.
So it appears what Doug Renetti
does is mount towering debt against the promise of future receipts.
That's publishing, my friend.
You've overextended yourself like a mad man.
Yeah, and that's publishing. That's the game. So
So
maybe not a good business for us to get into.
- [Jake] Doug has to pay the price for the decision he made at the end of season one, where
he got on his knees and he apologized and he gave away a moneymaker.
And so he felt bad.
Everybody was mad at him and he tried to do the evolved thing
and whoa, what a mistake that was.
And so season two finds him regretting that move and paying the price for it.
- [Shelly] I’m having a hard time with this decision.
- [Bambi] Yeah, but she says she wants the opposite of Doug, and they all are.
Well, she's probably afraid of making an impulsive choice.
You know, one that might feel right in the moment, but
have long lasting effects that
could, I don't know, throw her life into turmoil.
I guess I can understand that.
Decisions are rational or emotional, right?
Rational decisions. Easy.
You weigh pros and cons, but,
but emotions, feelings, powerful,
feelings.
Impulses.
I mean, that that can be confusing and also paralyzing.
- [Jessica] Completely heartbroken.
This witch smashed her heart into a million pieces.
Just kidding.
She loves her the most and will always ride for her until her dying day.
- Like Danity Kane.
And I think that Bamb's heartbroken.
She wants to pour yourself into work, possibly have new opportunities
at Bottom Dollar.
She realizes that business is mean and evil,
so she, at the end, I think, is just seeking connection.
- Is there anything else or we know?
- I think that's it.
Should we have sex now?
- [Lennon] It’s all Bambi’s fault.
(laughs)
So the end of season
one, obviously, some of some of the way that Shelly
believed to be true about herself were shattered with her,
like, deep desire to be with Bambi.
And I think she recommits to her husband at the end of season one.
So season two, she's a avoiding Bambi at all costs.
And of course, that proves very difficult because the magazine
is taking off and Shelly goes back to work for a little bit.
Yeah.
So she's well, you'll see.
It’s a real “will they, or won’t they?”
- Will they do it twice?
- How will they do it? Where will they do it?
- Who are these people and why do they keep taking our picture?
- That's Rolling Stone.
You really need to read my memos, Bambi.
- Oh, I don’t read memos on principle.
But, fun!
- [Idara] Tina has been accepted to business school,
and she's trying to decide if she's going to go and do that.
Especially with Minx being a mess and Doug being a mess as well,
and her trying to figure out what the next steps are.
So she's really contemplating it seriously.
But I think Bottom Dollar’s her baby.
And so she you know, she really doesn't see herself just leaving it.
I think she sees it as a place that she has helped
create and develop and kind of runs.
And so she doesn't she doesn't trust I think that she could leave it
in everyone else's hands.
But but she's definitely contemplating it because she's trying to choose herself.
- Mm hmm.
- [Richie] Sorry, Joyce, but I'm broke, and I have to take a second job.
- Isn't this your second job?
- No, because
- Well, what's the job?
- Some crazy rich lady tracked me
down, offered me a lot of money to take boudoir shots for her.
She wants the Minx touch.
- Richie! No, that's beneath you.
- I'm wearing an apron ogling
my godson, don't tell me what's beneath me.
- Richie has just come from discovering himself as an artist.
And then, because his journey in season one is sort of like
figuring out and, like, allowing the world
to see him as an artist and him coming to terms with that.
It's the aftermath of that success, you know?
So he's literally on top of his game in the art world,
but in the real world, he's struggling
financially because, you know, Minx is not a thing anymore.
So he's trying to make ends
meet while also being a big deal in the photography world.
- [Constance] Look at that man.
- [Richie] I'm looking.
I mean, I don't think the charcoal could do him justice.
No, no.
We need to get this on film to do it right.
Forever.
- It's so inspiring to see a woman owning her sexuality.
- [Elizabeth] Constance is a billionaire with a lot of scary background in her life.
She kind of came into money
through death, and everyone
kind of expected her to fold.
And instead she took her company,
you know,
she was the first woman on the New York Stock Exchange.
So she is a powerhouse.
But when we find her, she's sort of just drifted into like great expectations
and just has a lot of naked guys around her house and a butler and some dogs.
So when they ask her to come in
to sort of this ragtag group of people,
she's like, “Yeah, I'm going to do that.”
“It's going to be a lot of fun.”
And I think the entrepreneur within her can't help herself
and she starts manipulating.
- [Constance] I'm sorry, Are you going to be a problem?
She doesn't have a lot to say,
but she's just kind of pegging each person off.
It's like she has the ability to see, “Oh, that person has that Achilles heel.”
“I think I'll just...”
And slowly
everybody starts realizing, “Oh, we're being manipulated.”
And she's just sort of sitting back there with her arms bag going,
“What?”
“I didn't do anything.”
- [Constance] Vulgar and patriotic.
- Yum.