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Twentyfourseven Goes To Arkansas
December 14, 2006 09:58 PM by Joe Reality
The start of Episode Two finds most of the twentyfourseven boys at Frankie’s house. Ty, Cipes, Frankie, and Matt are playing pool. Although it is supposed to be the day after the Casablanca’s opening (Ep.1), the nightspot co-owned by Greg “The Entrepreneur” Carney and where Chris’s band The Prom Kings were scheduled to play, the boys seemed to have all new ‘dos. Greg abruptly arrives to ask Whitman for a ride to the airport as he is needing to go to Arkansas because his brother’s in jail.
This episode captures about the next 24-to-48 hours of the boys’ lives. Greg bails Chris out of the Hot Springs, Arkansas jail. Since the last episode, we see Chris is now sporting a shark-fin hairstyle. On the way to the Carney home, Chris explained that he was arrested while “wasted” for trying to fight three guys. Greg, not at all cheap with the I-told-you-so’s, lectures his older bro for abandoning his responsibilities.
Next scene, Ty & Matt are walking down a street on the way to have dinner with Whitman, Cipes, and Frankie. They talk about how although they’re reaping the fruits from their hardwork in Hollywood (Matt’s currently doing promotion for a movie he acted in and Ty’s film is getting buzz) they’re misunderstood by friends “back home” who expect them to be rolling in the big bucks. For two actors (Ty’s the star of his movie), this exchange seemed like a badly scripted one.
In a Maxim meets “Sex in the City” moment, Cipes, Frankie, Whitman, Matt, and Ty catch up with each other while dining. Whitman informs the rest of the crew that Chris has a court date and that it doesn’t look good. During the conversation, it is also learned that Chris and Greg’s dad is a pastor. Meanwhile back in Arkansas, the taxi pulls up to the Carneys’ home. After hugs and sitting down to dinner, Mrs. Carney tells Chris she was told he’s lucky to be alive because the police would’ve shot at him. Apparently, Chris was a bit belligerent with the coppers.
Next, we see Cipes heading over to do voicework for a “Teens Titans” cartoon character. Whitman is there with him. Afterwards, the pair talk about a pool party they’re attending later. Whitman says he’s been out in California for four years and has yet to find a girl he cares about. Cipes prophetically assures his friend that his future girl will find him. And she does; in the very next scene (or so we’re supposed to think).
Meanwhile the Carney boys head to Pastor Dad’s service. The editing juxtaposes the Playboy mansion party-esque Vivid Party with scenes at the church. Shots of bikini-clad girls and boozing boys are interspersed with cuts of Pastor Carney’s service about temptation and Chris’ forlorn expression. Whitman sits aside talking to a girl at the party named Shayne. Both tell the other that the party isn’t their scene. Commericals for next week reveal: Shayne is Lorenzo Lamas’s daughter! After the service, Chris is led to the beginning of the altar and together with his parents and brother, they bow in prayer. Then we get a shot of Chris shedding a tear.
The next morning, after talking to the attorney, Chris lets his older brother know that he won’t have to do jail time. Chris calls Whitman and lets him know that they’re returning to Los Angeles that night. Cipes, who was there too, suggests they throw them a party.
In the final scene, Chris and Greg, wave goodbye to their parents and ride off to L.A. As they open the door to their apartment, they are surprised by their friends and other partygoers. Chris asks for his drink but quickly takes back the bad joke when a couple of beers are offered up. Then while recounting his arrest to Frankie and others, grumpy Greg comes over and dampens the mood by wondering why a party is thrown for him for being released for jail. Chris tells him to quit being a downer. The episodes ends with his toast to his friends.
Written By Monika Fabian.
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January 6th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
great representation of the kind of idiots that you will meet in hollywood