Tonight’s episode of Grosse Pointe Garden Society doesn’t tiptoe into its long-teased drama—it cannonballs into it. From the moment the gala begins, there’s a sense of destiny in the air. This is the night we’ve been bracing for all season, the one that’s been glimpsed in scattered flash-forwards and ominous montages. And now, finally, all those fragments come together in real time, culminating in a death no one saw coming and a twist that reframes everything.
The opening act of the gala is a pressure cooker. Doug and Brett finally clash in a very public, very physical fight over Alice, and it’s more than just testosterone and jealousy. There’s real heartbreak in their punches, decades of unspoken rivalry, romantic confusion, and personal failure. Watching them unravel like that is thrilling, but it’s also deeply sad, especially for Alice, who is caught in the middle but increasingly seems like she’s standing alone. Meanwhile, Patty, ever the woman who believes she’s the star of every room, takes a hit of her own. When she ducks into the bathroom, she overhears Brett’s ex-wife, Melissa, and another woman gossiping about her, and it’s not kind. They call her out for being manipulative, for playing innocent, for being the sort of woman everyone pretends to like but secretly resents. Patty tries to brush it off, but the words hit hard. For someone who’s curated her image down to the hemline, being exposed like that stings.
| “Monaco Under the Stars” – GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY. Pictured: Ben Rappaport as Brett, AnnaSophia Robb as Alice, Melissa Fumero as Birdie and Aja Naomi King as Catherine. Photo: Mark Hill/NBC ©2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. |
The episode, however, belongs to Alice. Her arc tonight is dizzying. Bertie and Catherine try to lift her spirits by reminding her she’s just landed her dream job at New York Magazine, but the timing couldn’t be worse. Her marriage is imploding, she’s just been humiliated in public, and everything in her life that once seemed secure is now hollow. The big news that detonates her emotionally comes not from a letter or an argument—but from a drunk Tucker, stumbling into the conversation and blurting out the results of the ballistics test. The gun. The bullet. Patty killed her dog. The shift in Alice is immediate. Her face hardens. She doesn’t cry, she plans.
What follows is a deliciously unhinged act of vengeance. Alice steals the quilt, the same garish, coveted quilt that’s been passed around this season like a cursed relic, and with Brett, Bertie, and Catherine in tow, takes it to the garden centre to destroy it. They plan to cut it, burn it, whatever will make the biggest statement. But Alice doesn’t want to do it in secret. She wants Patty to watch. She wants her pain to be public, just like her own. And so, she sends Patty a series of texts.
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Back at home, Patty is winding down with Keith, unaware that the night isn’t over. As they get ready for bed, Keith says something odd—he sometimes wonders what Patty’s life would’ve been like if she’d never married him. Patty reassures him, with a softness that’s rare for her, that she loves him, and that nothing could ever change that. But the tenderness is interrupted in a surprising way that no one saw coming.
What happens next is both tragic and absurd, trademark Grosse Pointe Garden Society excellence. The garden centre becomes the stage for the show’s most theatrical scene to date. Alice, brandishing a knife, is about to stab the quilt when Keith walks in. The camera pans to his feet, and in one glorious visual reveal, we see it: the shoes. The same shoes worn by the corpse we’ve only known as “Quiche” from the flash-forwards. It’s Keith. Keith is Quiche.
The confrontation is brutal. Alice, vibrating with fury, tells Keith that Patty killed her dog. Keith counters by saying Doug can do better than her, that Alice doesn’t belong in their family or in Grosse Pointe. The insults fly like knives, but the actual knife—the real threat—is still in Alice’s hands. The scene escalates when Bertie, of all people, turns on a wood chipper. The quilt gets tossed in. Keith, unable to let Patty’s prized possession be destroyed, lunges for it and manages to pull it back out. But in doing so, he stumbles backward onto a garden tool, something innocuous, something sharp, and impales himself. Just like that, he’s bleeding out on the floor, a man who thought he was saving his wife’s legacy and ended up dying in a pile of potting soil and vengeance.
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| “Monaco Under the Stars” – GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY. Pictured: Ben Rappaport as Brett, AnnaSophia Robb as Alice, Melissa Fumero as Birdie and Aja Naomi King as Catherine. Photo: Mark Hill/NBC ©2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. |
“Monaco under the Stars” is a triumph. It’s the best episode of the season, in a season that has been epically strong in it’s freshman year. It juggles tone masterfully, swinging from dark comedy to high drama to genuine heartbreak without losing its footing. The writing is sharp, the performances dialed to perfection, and the pacing never lets up. Every payoff feels earned. Every twist hits. And now, with Quiche’s identity revealed and half the cast emotionally (or literally) destroyed, the question isn’t just what comes next, it’s how much worse it can get. Because in Grosse Pointe, there’s always more dirt to dig up.
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