12 Chairs Cafe
Photo by David Giesbrecht courtesy HBO
The second season opens with an episode that appears to allude to some major global event, aka the election of President Trump though it does not explicitly say so, giving New Yorkers some unease. We see this through the eyes and ears of a waiter at 12 Chairs Cafe in Greenwich Village.
The rest of the episode consists of a delivery of The Guy to a threesome taking place in a hotel: perhaps the only three people in New York City that missed the entire event. It ends with a touching scene, recently highlighted in The New York Times, that takes place late night in a New York City subway car where everyone in it comes together to keep a purple balloon aloft for a small Spanish-speaking child, the son of the barback at the bar Beth works in. He’s the same man who at the beginning of the episode, was working clearing tables at 12 Chairs.
