"Valerie:" "Previously on "casual"..." " Laura:" "We have a rat!" " Jack is bringing traps. but I want to... try again." "Valerie:" "You and Casey seem really close." "I guess so." "Something going on with you two?" "What do you mean?" "you have a tendency to sort of complicate relationships with sex." "that's so sad that's what you think of me." "she's threatening to go full Ophelia." "You are shouldering too much weight." "Just tell val." "She'll understand." "Mom told me you have a half brother." "[Coughs] right?" "I have to..." "Take a rain check on this game." "and I'm so tired." " Did you talk to val?" " Mm-hmm." "weight lifted or... not exactly." "[Beeping]" "["Nimble girl" by hotel Eden]" "♪ ♪" "Hotel Eden: ♪ confess to the nervousness ♪" "♪ as we stumble to the close of a troubled chapter ♪ but we're done ♪" "♪ now the truth burns through ♪" "♪ it's a total disaster ♪" "♪ but if you could see ♪" "♪ what your eyes reflect from your soul ♪" "♪ it's revealing ♪" "♪ ♪ show me love ♪" "[Lively rock music]" "♪ ♪ shit!" "I plant these cans on behalf of clan Cole." "Ahhh!" "Ah!" "♪ ♪" "Both:" "Fuck!" "all right." "This is fine." "but we were drunk and high on rat death euphoria." "gross!" " Gross?" "rae..." "Please tell me we didn't fuck to matchbox 20." "How dare you?" "God." "Don't look at me." "Turn." "I've already seen everything." "Do you remember it?" "Not really." "I've got perfect nipples." "Turn." " All right." " Gross." "you look like the villain from "legally blonde." "Gross." "You said "gross" three times now." "All right!" "Don't." "Don't look." "Don't look." "I'm just saying this as a friend." "okay?" "[Sighs]" "God damn it." "[Timer beeping]" "oven." "I see you two have finally met." "[Sighs] Surprise!" "Ugh!" "Is this pathetic or what?" "It depends what you're trying to do. but we don't have any trays." "I'm fine." "I'm not hungry." "You're not?" "What?" "you don't want anything?" "I'm good." "I hate to waste it." "I'll pay you back for it." "I don't want you to pay me back." "I'm fucking with you." "remember?" "[Doorbell rings repeatedly]" "Rule number one:" "Never fuck a roommate. chained to the wall like the wolfman." "right?" "And Emily blunt phoning it in?" "How far we've come." "I need to re-home her." "Can she stay here?" "Not if she's in heat." "Come on." "I need a game plan." "Why don't you make her breakfast and have an honest conversation about what happened?" "terrible idea." "Agreed." "Ignore her. and gaslight her if she brings it up again." " Laura." " You should run for office." "So what are we doing today?" "Korean barbecue?" "Shooting range?" "Korean barbecue at a shooting range?" "Laura and I are looking forward to doing a staycation kind of thing." "We're gonna just watch TV... thank you." "are you sure it was rae you fucked?" "the sorcerer?" "Ha ha ha." "[Door closes]" "Did you know Jack Nicholson thought his grandmother was his mom and his mom was his sister?" "Oh." "the mystery guy?" "Afraid of upending my thriving acting career?" "[Sighs]" "I just wasn't sure you would want to know." "thank you." "Thank you. right?" "for Laura's sake?" "In case she needs a kidney or something?" "good thinking." "Probably best to start harvesting those organs now." "Yeah." "I really should." "Casey:" "Hey." "Hi." "Cool place." "Thanks." "Happy to provide asylum." "How's your mom?" "I'll head back home as soon as her bitterness fades to exhaustion." "Laura." "Hi." "So what's on tap for the day? but you're welcome to hang as long as you'd like." "Cool." "you have..." "Do... do you need... not really my thing." "Gotcha." "That's... cutting out the middleman." "Hon?" "You're up in the shower." " Thanks." " Yeah." "Laura." " Hi." "you're Casey's girlfriend." "Hi." "Her wife." "Oh." "It's nice to meet you." "[Light music]" "[Scoffs]" "hi." "It's Alex Cole calling." "this has nothing to do with reverse mortgages. whatever." "Is Gary there?" "I'm not asking for money." "[Loud whirring]" "You know what?" "Forget it." "Enjoy the time you have left." "Hi." "Hiya." "young man." "That's a fun and loud toy." "I'm training him for future government work." "okay? but his dad's running a bit behind today." "bear." "You always say that. he hasn't shown up at all." "He's very good at data collection." "Can he spreadsheet?" "Put him on payroll." "but child labor laws." "and he'd just end up dating bacon-withholding women." " This is so boring!" " Clark..." "I hate your office." "Do you really want Alex to see you like this?" "This guy?" "I don't care about him." " Clark." " It's okay." "I don't care about me either." "I'm just gonna... yeah." "Sorry." "I'll track down my half brother and throw him a party. make a little cash." "Yeah." "never gonna look for him." "Really?" "it's a no-win. it'll just be this painful reminder of what could have been. then you got to worry about shared genes." "exactly. which would be just boring." "Don't you kind of want to know though?" "what if you have an awesome last name like bonvillain or mcclintock?" " What if you're a mcclintock?" " I don't know." "It could be terrible." "I knew a Gracie cumster in middle school." "[Laughs] whoa." " What?" " Uh... of course." "What kind of mapplethorpe we talking about here?" "sculptures?" "Tulips and assholes." "got the whole potpourri." " Yeah." " Hmm." " You know what?" " What?" " I hate tulips." " Really?" "it's a terrible flower." "And my great-great-great-great- great-grandmother was Dutch. she got real fucked." "She was on the streets for a while." "yeah." " So I can't do this." " I'm so sorry." "I shouldn't do this." "no mapplethorpe." " No mapplethorpe." " How about coffee?" " We could do coffee." " Okay." " And talk about... we're not gonna do mapplethorpe." " No." "okay?" "Kitchen's just like the one in "Downton Abbey but less modern." "is it private enough for hushed gossip about the crawleys?" "[Chuckles] Did you hear lady Edith was sent to hospital again for fucking another horse?" "That's ten this week." " [Laughs]" " My goodness." "Speaking of... like you didn't use all our hot water again." "And I'm invisible." "What am I?" "Elena?" "seriously." "Usually Casey at least mentions the green card." "by the way." "They don't fuck like a green card marriage. like maybe I missed something she said." "doubt it." "Casey's like a dude." "Adjusting the facts as she pleases." "And gone three nights a week." "I'm pretty sure right?" "On a pillow of intern vagina." "Classy." "You watch lactation porn." "what?" "Dylan?" "shit." " [Laughter]" "[Door opens and closes]" "I am trying to talk to you." "[Muted conversation]" " Just stop." " Here we go again." "Yeah." "I'm here." "I'm not Valerie." "I'm looking for her baptismal birth certificate." "Hang on just a sec." "Hello?" "Eric doesn't work here anymore." "Hello?" "You there?" "Pastor?" "Come on." "just... mom." "but I..." "What do you want me to do?" "What can I do?" "What can I..." "Clark. and I knew he'd blow it." "What's your excuse?" "[Phone ringing]" "Take it." "I got this." "thank you." "This is Judy." "huh?" "What's the point?" "Global warming's gonna get us anyway." "You're right. maybe slows things." " Still..." " I know. and turn our planet into Venus." "Scary and inevitable. will have found a way to move on to other planets." "I guess that's kind of cool." "That's very cool. total bonding moment." "There'll be a space-wide love fest." "[Phone buzzing]" "Hang on." "Hello." "Gary!" "My man!" "Yes!" "Can you email me the photo?" "yes." "Great." "You're an absolute lifesaver." "Here we go!" "Photo of who? who is..." "Not that guy." "Shit." "man." "okay." "What do we know?" "Val's born in '76." "Mom's already a groupie." " What's a groupie?" " A slut for musicians." "yeah." "who was mom stalking in '75? but e street band's a boys' club." "maybe?" "mom frightens too easily." "'75." "yes." "Fleetwood Mac." "Who's fleetwood Mac?" "[Outraged] Who's fleetwood Mac?" "look at this incredible awkwardness here." "Plan going as intended." "I'll get her some very early-morning cabernet sauvignons and impress her with the fact that I know the word 'Matisse.'" " mm-hmm." " Little fake phone call alert." "somebody call me." "Somebody be dead. we've run out of everything to say." " Try one of these." " Hmm?" "Oh." "very good." "um..." "How is... how's this gonna work?" "no penetration." "Shoving meat in your mouth wasn't it?" "maybe." "I... we're waiting." "Right." " That's all." " Uh-huh." "Is anybody else... waiting?" "Just you." "And... and we're waiting because... right." "the next time around to be about us." "about us." "Yeah." "Thank you." " That's great." " Yeah." "Yes. it was spent doing... things." "And I just..." "I'm trying to picture how to be with you and not do those things." "But there's... we can do different things." "gardening." " Those are all on the table." " Right." "anyway." "you know." "Yeah." " Hi." " Hi." "Alex would love this rug." "How's he holding up? living a life of unspeakable privilege and just depressed enough to resent it." "Who's Alex?" "her uncle." "His house has incredible water pressure." "[Doorbell rings] that's Ben." "I really love your house." "Make yourself at home." "so you want to talk about burners?" "We'll talk about burners." "You want to talk about fracking?" "I want to talk about the city council meeting next week." "whatever you want. there's mailers in the living room or..." "Cool." "I'm on it." "Woman:" "Frequently employing photographs Jude constructs a visual language tells a story mysterious... the bustle of city life and the solitude of the outdoors often juxtaposed in a single frame." "Born in Los Angeles in 1965 Jude took inspiration from his dichotic upbringing portraits..." "Excuse me." "Woman:" "Snapshot of America captured in Democratic and observant..." "I'm so sorry." "Woman:" "The world of his childhood." "Jude explores some of his earliest memories. and they didn't need the Internet to get there." "Rumors" sold 10 million copies in its first year." "That is a staggering number." "Justin Bieber's last album streamed 750 million times." "don't ever mention them in the same sentence again." "Sorry. but that was considered a failure." "That's how big fleetwood Mac was." "And the entire time..." "I'm talking decades here..." "They were partying harder than anyone." " Hello." " Hello." "Why are you giving my nine-year-old a music sermon?" "We're trying to find Alex's sister's dad." "Oh." "Is your mom still alive?" "I think so." "Could you ask her?" "But we've been having so much fun." "[Fleetwood Mac's "second hand news" playing]" "You really should ask her." "Clark. rodin's sculpture depicts a scene the first section of Dante's "divine comedy. staring down at those who would enter." "Asked to conceive of an inviting entrance rodin chose the shades but was unable to complete the project before his death in 1917." "rodin had developed..." "[Fast-paced guitar music]" "Too divorced from reality. for a"..." "[Sighs]" "[Soft music]" "♪ ♪" "Where'd he go?" "he said something about an asshole with bad taste in music and took off." "that's funny." "Bathroom." "I'm sending you a playlist." "Make sure he listens to it in order. as it was meant to be heard." "Did you put any foreigner on there?" "Watch it." "have you thought about limiting his Internet use?" "I think it might be making him paranoid." "I heard that Florida's doomed and we're turning into Venus." "But what was that?" "Less Internet?" "I should write that down." "Judy." " Godspeed." "[Light guitar music]" "♪ ♪" "[Music intensifies]" "♪ ♪" "Can we go?" " Yeah." " Leave?" "Are you okay?" "the end of my marriage and it was not pretty." "I felt really alone and I just..." "I just don't think" "I should start something new in that place." "though." "But I..." "I think the smartest thing is to table this until you're on the other side." "Oh." "Okay." "Um..." "I feel like this asshole who's just throwing pebbles at the window of your halfway house including that guy. but what do you want?" "You want to take a few months off and see where we're at or something?" "I think that would be best." "Okay." "Okay." "so I guess I'll see you around." "[Soft music]" "♪ ♪" "[Soft music]" "♪ ♪" "You know..." "I was like you... trying to make my mark." "But it left me lonely." "And then I meet this woman like I can make things happen. based on the rudyard kipling poem. fight." "She makes you cum in ways that you never thought possible." "She performs Reiki that cures your migraines." "and you think that you're the only one who's ever seen her tears. shines on someone else." "That's just what she does." "I've never had a migraine." "Lucky you." "Good news and bad news." "Bad news:" "Your biological dad is no longer with us." "Sorry. so that's good." "I'm happy to go down that road for you." "good news:" "I found your half brother." "which is weird but great." "It's close. [Clears throat]" "And I mapped out some stuff for us to do along the way. three-star glamping." "No." "I thought you wanted this." "No." "Why would you think that?" " Because you said." " I didn't say." "this is my thing!" "Mine." "And you can't just fucking insert yourself." "This is when you leave." "[Soft music]" "♪ ♪" "[Sighs]" "♪ ♪" "Wow." "Don't get too excited;" "This is an intervention." " Foreigner?" " [Laughs]" "Were you raised in a roller rink?" " Guess what." " What?" "You can use your regular voice." "Clark can sleep through anything." "I'm not doing this for Clark." "I've been told I sound like Harrison Ford when I speak in hushed tones." "[Laughing] I'm sorry." "That's... that's not even remotely true." "How dare you?" "Who told you that?" "Several people have told me." "I doubt it." "["Free translator" by the books]" "[Light guitar music] and I see ♪ and I see ♪" "♪ and I see ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ the hold-out boy and the weathergirl ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ know the wind moves in a patient way ♪" "♪ like a two-decade day ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ the man in the mouth of a drain ♪" "♪ laughing and chewing erasers ♪" "♪ like a black dog in the snow ♪" "♪ write in relief and sleep again ♪" "♪ and you can't believe your eyes ♪" "♪ and you can't find your pen ♪" " ♪ the man in the hole ♪ " "♪ is your new friend's friend ♪" "♪ write in relief and sleep again ♪" "♪ and you get in the hole ♪" "♪ with your new friend's friend ♪" "♪ and he can't believe his eyes ♪" "♪ and he can't find his pen ♪" "♪ and the meteorological man ♪" "♪ with a whirlwind girl ♪" "♪ and a mote in the sun ♪" "♪ and a squid in a bag ♪" "♪ and a raccoon hat ♪" "♪ and a talking plant ♪" "♪ and a careful goat ♪" "♪ in a sewer system shaft ♪" "♪ and I see ♪ and I see ♪" "♪ and I see ♪ and I see ♪" "♪ and I see ♪ and I see ♪" "♪ and I see ♪ and I see ♪" "♪ and I see ♪"