Playworld

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual content, sexual harassment, and child sexual abuse.

At the end of the school year, Griffin prepares for his exams. He feels prepared but becomes confused while taking them. He wonders if it’s because they’re held in the wrestling gym. After finishing, he cleans out his locker and tells himself he’ll do better next year.

Griffin and his friends all work during the summer. In July, Griffin returns to The Nuclear Family set. Between shoots, Griffin works out at the gym with Shel, where he runs into Vince one day. In the steam room afterward, Shel asks about Amanda. His advice makes Griffin realize how little he knows about love and sex.

One day after Shel leaves on his tour, Lily takes Griffin out to lunch. Griffin asks about her dating history. Although she is surprised, Lily opens up, revealing that she’s always loved Shel the most. Griffin feels bad for her in light of Shel’s story about Millie and wonders if she’s lonely. The conversation shifts to their apartment fire in 1973. Lily offers an alternate version of the story, revealing that Griffin was hiding, but Oren was searching for the cat, who ended up dying.