Renata and Gordon have turned their house into the Land of Make Believe for this party, the theme of which clearly has nothing to do with Amabella or the kids. (They were good sports, to be fair. Most Gen Z-ers probably don’t care about dinosaurs like The Trammps, but maybe D.J. Chloe got them jazzed up with a playlist before the festivities.) Regardless, the whole thing is a show put on by the Kleins, who are fresh from a bankruptcy hearing in which they nearly had to surrender the clothes off their back, as well as reassure the trustee that the house, in which they’re throwing this sham party, is on the market.

But the pretense is especially wearing on some. Celeste and Bonnie, for example, have about had it with the Trivia Night cover story. Echoing Bonnie in Episode 1 (as well as many commenters here and various “Big Little Lies” buffs around the internet), Celeste isn’t entirely sure why they lied about Perry’s death in the first place. And if she could have her do-over, she wouldn’t lie again. This is a fact that Madeline, the ringmaster of the “let’s say he slipped” circus, takes as a personal affront — the same way she takes pretty much everything else.

In another sense, though, Bonnie is actually doing quite well at pretending. She’s smiling more, loosening up. But her mother, Elizabeth, is still around and still making Bonnie generally uneasy. On the dance floor, she takes Bonnie’s head into her hands and suddenly slows her sway, closing her eyes, conjuring clairvoyance.

Bonnie has seen this trick before and pulls away. “No,” she says firmly and walks off.

It’s not the only dance floor confrontation we see. After Ed shrugs off Nathan’s half-hearted attempt to relate to his marital issues, Nathan promptly regresses to the level of the children surrounding him and picks a physical fight with Ed. They’ve been bro-foes since Episode 1, and we all knew this was coming.

But what nobody saw coming was Elizabeth’s stroke. As Bonnie’s mother collapses to the floor, foaming at the mouth, Bonnie shakes her, screaming, and the whole family ends up at the hospital.

If some of us are destined to repeat history, Bonnie’s marriage seems something of a mirror image to her parents’: free-spirited woman marries straight-laced white dude. And like Nathan, Bonnie’s father, Martin Howard (Martin Donovan), obviously doesn’t see her clearly, either.