UnREAL Review: Treason (Season 2 Episode 4)

It’s Rachel & Coleman versus Quinn & Chet on UnREAL’s “Treason.” Two couples enter, only one will survive. (Or part of one if Quinn has anything to say about it.)

There’s no time wasted before Rachel realizes that her betrayal of Quinn isn’t something that she can fix with a couple of well-placed platitudes as soon as she sees the woman. Her mentor has been hurt and has no plans of forgiving her.

What Rachel did by speaking with Gary is alike to treason in Quinn’s eyes. Instead of burning bright with anger and repaying the favor, she becomes ultra focused on proving everyone wrong.

This is her show, and there’s no one that can take it away from her. Especially the little producer that Quinn backed and molded for years.

Quinn falls into a comfortable rhythm with Chet because they’re good at their job. When they put all of their anger and history to the side, they deliver top quality content. If only they could get past that, we’d have a calm cash cow of love.

Except this is TV, and the drama is needed.

For a moment, Quinn let’s herself get lost in the euphoria of working with Chet because she feels like she has no one on her side. Those she cared for have shown her nothing but betrayal and a reason to distrust them. It’s left scars on her mind that will never heal.

The saddest part is that Quinn understands that inherently good people are out there. But the ones around her have always hurt her or left her in the dust. She has hope, but she’s also realistic.

Turning her back on Rachel just as her prodigy is partnering up with the penis car owner, Coleman, isn’t Quinn abandoning her. She just isn’t going to prop her up anymore or use her as a distraction to buddy up with her baby stealing ex-fiancee.

Rachel benefits from a relationship with Quinn more than the woman does for her. And for just one moment, Rachel understands the truth in Quinn’s words, mind flashing back to her very public breakdown seasons before.

Too bad she brushes off Quinn’s words as just a bitter woman’s way of not admitting that she’s been defeated by Rachel’s partnership with trust fund baby. Her pride will be her downfall.

At the end of the day, Quinn and Rachel specialize in creating impossible and emotional journeys for the contestants they’ve collected. Money, dick, power can reunite because of these similarities.

It’s just going to take some work.

Apologies need to be handed over by Rachel to Quinn, for handing the reins of a carefully crafted kingdom over to a man who did nothing to deserve it. While you’re at it, throw the penis car into your apology Rachel.

P.S. It was Quinn’s penis car all along, and we will not rest until she’s riding off into the sunset in it, one hand in the air, flipping her enemies off.

Favorite Quinn Quotes from UnREAL‘s “Treason”:

• We throw in some sexy nurses, it’s like ‘Everlasting, M.D.’
• As if Taylor Swift asked you to be a part of her girl squad and then changed her mind.
• Your little freakout is the reason that preteen dirtbag is driving around a sportscar with the name of my show on it.
• I’m done with all the garbage people in my life.

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UnREAL airs Mondays at 10/9c on Lifetime.

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