The best things.Ĭonfusing branding aside, Redmond ends up calling Kelsey and Liza to inform them that Kai loved them but he’d like to get to know whoever might be his editor a little better before handing over his life story.
And he’s right! I hope this season sees Kelsey getting some huge career wins. Redmond tells Kelsey that he hopes she got a freaking ton of money for what they’ve done to her. The pitch is going well and then Kelsey has to inform Redmond that Millennial doesn’t exist anymore and they’re all working under the Empirical brand. I’m not going to say this is why this company is always on the brink of financial ruin, but I’m not not going to say that, okay? Anyway, at one point Charles peeps Kai and Liza making eye contact, and it ruffles him a bit. Charles wants to know what the book would actually be, but the rest of them see a picture of Kai’s abs and they’re in. Quinn isn’t the only author pitching Empirical in this episode: Redmond (so glad he’s around for the final season!) brings in Kai Manning, a legendary surf god with a lot of stories to tell. It’s clear he’ll be getting two “nos” from them, no matter how provocative a title like The F Word is. Charles says Liza and Kelsey can let him know if they think they should buy it by the end of the day. She’s not happy about it to begin with, and then when Quinn lays it on thick about this whole book being Charles’s idea, well, that doesn’t go over well, either. Well, we actually get a preview of what Liza will think when Quinn comes to bitch, excuse me (and Lauren), pitch her book at the office. Quinn and Charles are really going to be a thing, huh? What will Liza think?
The last time Quinn and Charles met up, he was all like, “You almost bankrupted my company please stay away from me,” but he is much more chummy now. The Quinn character pretty much changes every season, so at least we’re contributing this to something. The F Word will celebrate failure and the surprises that come with it. She’s a changed woman after her failed political career, she says, and she wants to write about the opportunity and growth that comes with failing. And she’s having drinks with Charles to pitch him her new book, a book he inspired after their little run-in in Chicago. Fine by me! This party is primed to have some drama because there is a whole lot of tension building up among our friends at Empirical ahead of the event. Here, of course, “rebrand” mostly means a new logo and a swanky party thrown together in like, 24 hours. Now that Millennial is no more and Empirical is Empirical again, the company needs a rebrand. After two middling episodes, “FKA Millennial” gives us that fun and flirty rom-com we’ve been waiting for.