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Marty (Matthew Cottle) still can't come over the fact that Clare (Tracey
Keating) has split up with him so he (at the same time, I wonder) follows her
around everywhere she goes and has taken a voluntary job at a phone-in
helpline.
Unfortunately though he has given one of the clients at hte help-centre,
suicidal Tesni (Lou Gish) his home phonenumber, & when she has another of
her suicidal moodswings she calls - when only Marty's flatmate, agoraphobic
Matt is in. & despite him being an asshole, confronted with a suicidal girl
Matt decides he has to act & does the unthinkable ... leve the appartment
to go to Tesni's house (by bus, too) to keep her from killing herself ... only
to pass out at her doorstep (at least she did not kill herself).
Brought to the hospital by Tesni's friend Susan (Fay Masterson), he falls in
love with her despite tha fact that she's redhaired and a student (2 big
no-no's for Matt). Incidently, the hospital Matt was brought to is also the
hospital Clare works at, & Marty hangs around here too, trying to impress
her in various ways, even claiming that he has taken an overdose & needs
immediate treatment. & in an unrelated story, Mandy, Matt & Marty's
other roommate, stops by the hospital too to check in her new boyfriend Patrick
(Daniel Taylor), a stand-up comedian whose bad jokes have earned him a severe
beating.
This finale of Game On's second season tries to, somewhat
desperately tie up all the loose ends of the season - but not very successfully
so. Matt's going-out & almost immediately finding a girlfriend comes across
rather unconvincing, Marty's increasingly psychotic obsession to impress Clare
does lose its impact towards the end of the episode & the subplot of
Mandy's new boyfriend doesn't lead anywhere right from the start, as she's
absent from most of the show only to reappear out of the blue at the end. And
what's more, the real interesting loose ends - like Matt's self-denied
homosexuality - are pretty much dropped here for good.
Unfortunately, the last is also the worst episode of the not so great second
season of the series.
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