The Big Door Prize – Season 2 Episode 3 Recap & Review

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Episode 3 of The Big Door Prize season 2 starts with Trina admitting what her “vision” was all about. She’s on the roof of Giorgio’s and instead of smashing the sign marked as Giorgio’s, she sees it says “Liar” and it’s just her standing there. She believes this is a sign that she can be whatever she wants to be.

As for Jacob, he tries to put his card inside the machine and records what shows on his phone as he steps up to play tennis. Beau is there but… who is he playing tennis against? We don’t see the full thing to begin with and even worse, the video he’s recorded has come out all blurry.

Now, we find out later in the episode that his vision is a two-player game…but the second player is an invisible Kolton and the ball keeps going right through him. He’s basically playing with himself (quieten down in the back).

Meanwhile, Principal Pat calls an emergency meeting. She wants to sort out the Morpho machine causing the attendance to drop. Dusty speaks up and decides he want to expand the curriculum and sort out all of this so everything can be changed for the better.

His speech inspires Alice Wickstead, who has been trying to go with the flow and being less controlling, as per her card with the Morpho. She’s also Trina’s music teacher and wants to brainstorm some ideas that night. At Giorgio’s… over dinner. 

Its awkward that night when Jacob and Trina get together, with the latter reminiscing on old things that remind her of Kolton – including a teddy that says “I love you Kolton”. Awkward!

Cass heads over to the Cruisin Inn that night and decides to stay there. Unfortunately, there’s only the Crew’s Quarters available… and her mum is there too making a speech. Hilariously, she’s there and lashes out at her daughter, especially after hearing about her stabbing incident. She finds herself hanging in the wings of the party, lashing out at her mum and managing to vibe with Hana, who also watches the party.

Meanwhile, Dusty shows up for his “work meeting” with Alice at Giorgio’s. Giorgio hilariously does a triple take and immediately works his magic to help Alice and Dusty, getting them some champagne and oysters. Dusty is painful to watch, to be honest, and he certainly doesn’t get the hint. Alice is even wearing red and gives him constant glances and little giggles… still nothing.

Giorgio’s enthusiasm comes back to bite them when Dusty’s credit card is declined. Dusty sees the charge for the hotel too and hears the music in the background when he rings Cass, immediately suspecting the worst. As for Cass, when she hears he’s at Giorgio’s, she wonders what’s going on – and who he’s with.

Dusty and Alice skip dinner and talk on the way home. It turns out Alice has visited Whistler a while back and they contemplate what would have happened had Dusty stayed and they bumped into each other. As they say goodbye, they embrace and hug for a long time.

As the episode closes out, Beau finds Mr Johnson outside, staring at the wall of the convenience store. He turns sadly and utters “I don’t want to be alone.”

The Episode Review 

There’s an interesting bit of dialogue in this episode, and it comes from Hana. She contemplates whether the machine is encouraging people to make these big leaps of faith and changes based on how people are interpreting what they’re shown. rather than people being guided by free will to do their own thing.

It’s something that’s similar to the brainteaser in The Matrix, where Neo sees the Oracle and she tells him to mind the vase… and he knocks it over.

This whole idea of causality and fate is something that The Big Door Prize manages to capture and this second season continues that, with a nice dollop of humour for good measure. There are some genuinely funny moments too, especially between Dusty and Giorgio who have great chemistry and bounce off each other nicely.

Quite where this one is going to go next is anyone’s guess but one thing’s for sure – this season is just starting to get interesting.