'UnReal' recap: Happy endings and sudden endings
Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for Monday night's episode of UnReal.
"What is better than one bride?" "Two brides?" UnReal took its own caustic commentary to heart with the finale to its messy second season — because what's better than one death? Two deaths. And we'll have to wait until season 3 to see the consequences of Jeremy's actions, and how Rachel, Quinn and Chet are going to live with them.
The woman with a plan: Quinn
While Jay is producing the romantic fairy tale, Quinn spots Tiffany's ankle bracelet, courtesy of Chet, and hatches an "epic" plan. After Jay breaks the news that Darius is planning to pick Tiffany, Quinn asks Rachel to bring Yael back for the finale and pulls aside Tiffany and Chantal to promise them both that Darius will pick and marry one of them on live TV.
Rachel brings Yael on board to reveal that Tiffany is sleeping with the executive producer after Darius picks Tiffany. Madison is happy that her girl Chantal wins the moral high ground, but Jay opposes the deceitful plan, telling Quinn that Darius deserves an ending. "This is an ending," Quinn responds. "It's not a happy one, but it's about as real as it gets."
Redeemed and it feels so wrong: Rachel
Rachel and Quinn are back to their tag teaming — first accosting Coleman and getting security to raid his office. They gloat as they confront him about faking the Cambodian sex slave documentary that launched his career, but Coleman gets the last word about Rachel and her "issues."
Rachel blames herself for their relationship imploding, but Quinn is indignant. She brushes off both Coleman and Rachel's mom, persuading Rachel that she is perfect the way she is. Still feeling guilty, Rachel tries to apologize to Darius, but he calls her out for her "do-gooder, crazed white girl" schtick. A recovered Romeo arrives to kick her out of the room.
When she sees how crushed Jay is over their manipulative ending for Darius, Rachel proposes something different from Quinn's vision. However, her plan meets an obstacle when she runs into an apologetic Jeremy, who reveals that Yael is a reporter planning to expose Everlasting on live TV and Coleman had pulled him into an alliance with them. But Jeremy had a crisis of conscience after learning about Rachel's childhood rape and runs to Rachel, who sends him off to the TV truck while she deals with yet another disaster.
The graduates: Darius and Ruby
Darius panics when he gets the wedding news on live TV, and he bickers with Romeo as Tiffany and Chantal cat-fight over the dual wedding.
Romeo persuades Darius to go through with it or risk a PR disaster. While Darius mulls over his decision, Rachel pulls Quinn away to tell her about Coleman and Yael's plan. Quinn tells Rachel to handle it and orders Madison to get camera-ready to drop the Tiffany bomb. But Darius drops his own bomb that he won't be choosing either Tiffany or Chantal. That's when, as if on cue, Ruby shows up. Jay had called her by Rachel's suggestion, and she and Darius make amends, confessing their love as the audience claps, Chantal and Tiffany are in tears and Quinn is rendered speechless.
Worst person of the week: Coleman and Jeremy
Coleman would have run away with the title of worst of the week alone if not for Jeremy hadn't (likely) committed straight up murder. On top of refusing to go public about Everlasting so he can maintain his reputation and lashing out at Rachel by calling her a "damaged, vile person," Coleman really lived up to being villain of the week.
Rachel did try to stop Coleman and Yael's exposé of Everlasting, first by discrediting Yael with her newspaper and then by locking them up in the house. But Coleman calls her bluff, knowing they can just go to the press once the episode wraps. Resigned that she and Quinn are going to jail, she tells Jeremy to give up, but he resorts to murder to save Rachel and the show.
Coleman and Yael's car is revealed to have driven off the cliff, and Jeremy implies that he had a role. Rachel, Quinn, Chet and Jeremy lie out by the pool, staring at the sky and contemplating what they've done.