UCSB Expresses Interest in Hiring Marvyn, While his Team grows suspicious. Beth Macbeth premiers.
After receiving the call from Randy Edmunds(Jeffrey D. Sams), the recruiter ( at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) about an available Head Coach opportunity for Marvyn Korn (John Stamos), it the offer he was waiting for this entire season to get back to Men’s College Basketball. Korn’s initial visit when the same as the recruitment of a high-profile player. Arielle (Andrea Anders), UCSB Athletic Director pulls out all the stops having designated parking spots, having Korn’s envisioning himself coaching on the men’s basketball court, and even having Marvyn rolls a nod to the Kalm Korn Instagram account that helped rebrand his image. A second meeting between Korn and some of the team’s key players was scheduled as a chemistry experiment to see how well Korn can gel with these college guys.
Upon returning to Westbrook we can see just how excited the girls are to face Carlsbad for a second time, but this time being the game that can get them to Divison Two (DII). Korn loves the enthusiasm of the team, Coach Holly (Jessalyn Gilsig) makes the girls run laps to hear about Korn’s big news he’d mentioned earlier. After having the conversation about him potentially leaving Korn ensures Holly that she should be the replacement head coach after his departure. After asking Holly to keep this secret between the two of them, the news of Korn possibly leaving Westbrook for UCSB becomes the worst kept secret. Principle Thomas (Yvette Nicole Brown) learns the news after Korn interrupts Margarita Monday, throwing her for a loop but she also reassures Holly that she would be the choice if Korn were to leave If left up to her but she has a board that gets the final say about the hire.
Principle Thomas and Coach Holly enjoying Margarita Monday.
The B-plot of this episode focus on the opening night of Miss Goodwin’s (Kathleen Rose Perkins) the Beth Macbeth (A reimaged gender-bent performance of William Shakespeare’s famous play Macbeth) Emma (Sophia Mitri Schloss) and Harper Schapira (Darcy Rose Byrnes) tension continues to rise as Harper continues to rub it in Emma face that she won the lead role, Emma questions the legitimacy of her winning the role and her talent as an actor being that she’s Miss Goodwin’s daughter. These intense jabs the girls are taken at one another don’t go unnoticed as Miss Goodwin catches their disputes numerous times and when she brought this to Korn’s attention he agrees with Emma that Harper got the role because of Miss Goodwin’s nepotism. This causes a fight between Westbrook’s favorite couple, but with the help of school counselor George Pappas (Richard Robichaux) we figure out that Harper being pushed by an overachieve mother to live up to her expectations is the reason for her stress, and Emma stress is coming from the fact that she could move back to Wisconsin next year after building friendships at Westbrook and having a father that isn’t giving her full support because he’s so focused on his career as a coach, on top of keeping secrets from her.
Korn’s Second meeting with UCSB or should I say doctors appointment had him miss practice, unfortunate for Korn on the way out the conversation between Coach Holly and he was recorded on Olive’s (Monique A. Green) phone as she was filming B-roll for her documentary on the Lady Sirens road to DII. That video would serve as the team’s and Emma’s way of finding out Korn is planning on leaving Westbrook. Korn meets Randy, Arielle, and the team’s top two players Jason Hughes and Travis Owens at the park (From the last episode Korn used to teach the girls a lesson in never underestimating your opponent.) following a quick coaching session Coach Korn is able to visualize himself back on the Men’s College Basketball stage, put Korn one foot out the door. However, Holly isn’t closer to getting the head coaching job at Westbrook. Principle Thomas called her into the office and offer her a seat at the bad news table where she informed Holly the board would want a more experienced coach if the team moved up to DII. Someone on Westbrook’s board is leaking information to Carlsbad’s Coach McCarthy (Camryn Manheim), who calls Coach Holly to offer her the position as the next Coach of Carlsbad after she retires at the end of the season because Coach McCarthy is in charge of naming her successor.
It is finally showtime as the first night of Miss Goodwin’s play Beth Macbeth opens its doors, but the drama plays out way before the show begins. Olive, Destiny (Tiana Le), Louise (Nell Verlaque), Samantha (Cricket Wampler), and Mouse (Tisha Custodio) confront Korn about his decision to leave the team to go to UCSB. Even though Korn reassured them that he has no plans to leave them high and dry the trust build over the course of this season has been broken. Emma lets her dad know that she knows about his job offer with the speech giving by her character at the end of the play.
Things that also happened in this episode were Destiny confronting her adoptive mother not telling her that her aunt Angel was her birth mother, Samantha being cyberbullied by students at Carlsbad so she played up a simple twisted ankle, and Olive dating Jake (Damian Alonso) from Carlsbad.
Next week will be the conclusion of this series and with this episode leaving us without some resolution to the problem it assumed that they will come to an end in the next episode “Marvyn’s Playbook,” on June 18, 2021.
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