So, I have to ask - do all white moms have a Jocasta complex? Are moms who love their sons canceled? Let me know in the comments. I kept waiting for Leighton to dramatically reveal that she has a stepmom, but the big stepmom reveal never came. Tangentially, there’s a long-running joke about Leighton’s mom wanting to have sex with her son, slippery little Nico himself. But if, like me, you found that previous episodes don’t really address why Leighton is so afraid to come out to her supportive peers, meeting her wealthy, conservative parents clears that up. The biggest unsaid secret, of course, is that Leighton is gay and in a relationship with Alicia. No one is hiding a ketamine dependence, but the writers might be saving that for the Euphoria crossover episode next season. The secrets in question are all pretty tame sitcom things Bela’s parents think she’s a neuroscience major, Leighton’s dad thinks Net-A-Porter is a site to buy textbooks, Kimberly told her parents she’s pursuing her “faith journey” at church every weekend, and Whitney convinced her mom that she joined the Young Republicans. You can only have one set of parents to make FPBYD night work, folks.īut before they can get that first sweet bite of wet, sliced cherry tomato, the roommates and their entire hall establish that they’re keeping secrets from their parents, vowing to “corroborate” for each other if duty calls. But it’s because all of their parents came to dinner. This integral Family Weekend event makes up a huge chunk of this episode in a really nice change of pace for the series, much to the chagrin of the girls (and Nico), who are forced to suffer through a meal’s worth of their parents being rude or overbearing. Small talking to adults about my major, showing them the shoebox dorm room where I bedded an r/indieheads poster the night before? No, thank you!īut one enjoyable and seemingly obligatory aspect of Family Weekend is unofficial Friends’ Parents Buy You Dinner night, where your friends’ parents buy you dinner and you eat your first vegetable in two months. Maybe I’m just revealing something about my own relationship to my parents, but I always remembered Family Weekend at college to be a big bag of shit.