'Grosse Pointe Garden Society': Who Got Killed & Who Killed the Dog Revealed

We finally get to the root (see what I did there) of the season with Grosse Pointe Garden Society. A couple of lingering questions have been answered in the season's latest episode and it feels like a well-deserved payoff after an interesting freshman season. The show’s been slowly planting seeds all along, and now we finally get the bloom, some messy, chaotic, kind of unhinged bloom, but still.

Alice’s mother-in-law killed her dog, yes, killed the dog, so of course Alice just has to get revenge by messing with the quilt that costs all that money due to the auction. I mean it is a handmade quilt, I hear those things are worth something, I guess. Just buy a blanket at the store, but I digress. The drama of it all somehow centers around fabric.

GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY -- "Monaco Under the Stars" Episode 111 -- Pictured: (l-r) Melissa Fumero as Birdie, Aja Naomi King as Catherine, Ben Rappaport as Brett, AnnaSophia Robb as Alice -- (Photo by: Mark Hill/NBC)

So, when Alice texts mommy-in-law Patty to meet her and presumably have it out once and for all and for her to witness the destruction of the quilt, daddy-in-law Keith shows up instead. Naturally. The group of gardening misfits and Keith then tussle, yes, full-on tussle over the expensive, inexpensive quilt, and just when it looks like Keith is about to go into the woodchipper (a little nod to the Walkers from Jadis’ group in The Walking Dead, because why not mix in some light horror imagery), Keith is able to pull the blanket out and save some of it. Not all. Just enough to say he didn’t totally lose.

All is great, the gang did not murder Keith, no one is composted… but wait there’s more. Just as everything looks to be returning to “normal” (whatever that means in this universe), Keith has some type of medical emergency and falls out hard. And plot twist: he’s been punctured by a garden tool that was hanging on the wall in the shed. A death by hoe, trowel, or whatever that was. So technically, he killed himself? Not on purpose, but yeah, that’s kind of what happened. The wild part is this really all could’ve been explained to a law enforcement official. Like, pretty easily. But we don’t do easy around here.

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