The Girls' Guide to Grieving Guys

On Instant Star we learned that boys all grieve in different and strange ways. In the wake of Patsy's death Jamie is angry, Kwest is contemplative and Spiederman can't stop making jokes.

Meanwhile Darius is trying to leverage his most cantankerous artist's self-implosion into marketing millions, making her a Gen Y Janis Joplin. Jamie is too numb to do anything but go along with a memorial that's basically a record release party, but Jude and the SME boys decide to be totally punk rock and break Patsy's urn out of G Major for a memorial of their own. We later find out Spiederman got the keycard to Darius' office from the man himself, so it was officially sanctioned punk rockitude. I'm not sure why we need to know that deep down Darius has a heart. I like it better when he's a mercurial impresario keeping everyone on their toes.

Another thing I'm not sure about: the timeline leading up to the memorials. Do they break into G Major in the middle of the afternoon? That's the only explanation for Jamie wearing the same suit when Jude asks for his help with the break-in and at the memorial. And if it was night, then what the hell was Tommy doing there? I know brooding is his 9-5 gig, but does home slice ever take a break?

The episode is rather blah, but Kristopher Turner is excellent as Jamie, all muffled rage and sadness. Nothing else rings as true as when he tells Jude he doesn't care if Patsy would have hated what Darius is doing, "Because right now? I kinda hate her." At least while everyone else is waxing poetic about her free spirit, someone close to her has the sense to be pissed that she caused her own death.

Official prediction time: Tommy seems to know a lot about the signs of addiction, no? And in the first season, he mentioned that he had a Jude/Jamie relationship with his former bestfriend. So my guess is that said BFF died in a totally tragic manner.

Next week: Looks like we're finally going to deal with Sadie's jealousy towards her sister. I hope the whole stealing thousands of dollars from Jude thing comes up, cause seriously? Uncool.