Both Lily and Langston know that with this envelope comes their grandpa noting everything they did wrong that year in front of everyone else. Things seem fine up until it’s time for otoshidama, when Arthur is preparing envelopes of money to give his grandkids. Grandpa Arthur rents out their temple so they can all be there together before Lily and her parents take off for Fiji. So what’s Lily up to as the clock gets closer to midnight? She’s getting her affairs in order and having one last New Year’s Eve with her family. He’s going to have Lily meet him at the Strand. Truly, thank you, Nick Jonas.ĭash has a plan. “Thank you, Nick Jonas!” he says on the way out. Before he can launch into the whole story, Dash has heard enough. Nick Jonas (one of the show’s executive producers, in case you were like, WTF are the Jonas Brothers doing here?) starts to tell Dash about how he had to be vulnerable and go to Priyanka Chopra as himself (honestly did not expect to be writing that sentence when I started this episode). Don’t worry, Nick went to band camp with the Challah Back Boys, so it’s totally cool. Yep, Nick Jonas walks in on their conversation because it happens to be his trailer that they’ve commandeered. You know who agrees with Sofia? Nick Jonas. He is in love! But how can he fix things? Sofia sets him straight by pointing out that he, like so many guys, has been treating Lily like Cinderella and he’s the prince meant to save her - but that’s not how the world works. He fills them in on what’s happening and although they appreciate how bad he feels for hurting Lily, what really convinces them to help is that Dash admits it whole-heartedly: He can’t stop thinking about her. Dash knows he needs all of their help - the Challah Back Boys lead them to a fancy trailer where they can actually talk. The mere fact that Dash is at this concert is enough to convince Boomer he’s sorry when Dash finds him in the crowd, rocking out to the JoBros with Sofia, Priya, and the Challah Back Boys. But that’s how much he loves his friend and wants to make things better. Dash finds him, but it means he’ll have to go to a place that truly terrifies him: A Jonas Brothers concert in Hudson Yards on New Year’s Eve. Like a good Gen Z-er, Dash goes to Boomer’s Instagram to track him down. Now Dash needs Boomer’s help to try to figure out what to do and his best friend won’t talk to him. It’s been a week since things ended so disastrously between Dash and Lily…but also between Dash and Boomer. The Fiji part is obviously alarming to Dash, but it’s really the idea that Lily would give up believing that hits him hard. She was happy she had one last Christmas in which she believed in the magic of the season and the magic of New York, but she knows better now. She writes to him that she’s leaving for Fiji and also that he was right - they would’ve never worked out. The saddest! Well, finally Mark shows up with the notebook and one final message from Lily. Dash is at the Strand being the saddest boy who ever lived, hanging out by the Salinger books and saying things like “What I’m looking for isn’t here” when well-meaning Strand employees offer some help. That’s right, people: We’re back where we started. Thanks to bookstore clerk Mark, Dash knows that he’s running out of time to make things up to Lily. And I mean literally ticking: The finale episode continually reminds us of how many hours we have until the clock strikes midnight, one, because it is New Year’s Eve, but more important, because Lily and her parents will be on a flight to Fiji that night that departs at midnight. The clock is ticking on Dash and Lily’s love story.
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