To the Movies, to the Moon

## Episode guide

"**To the Movies, to the Moon**" is the fourth episode of the first season of *Melodrama* and the fourth episode of the series overall. It was released on September 11, 2020.

## Synopsis

At a local music festival, Meghna keeps her walls up around Inés. Addie seeks Jude's comfort as she grapples with loneliness, while Ty crosses Walter's boundaries. Left at home alone, Dina seeks solace with an old acquaintance.

## Plot

A flashback to the summer before his junior year shows Ty taking up a part-time job at a record store in Seattle with Inés, where he meets and eventually has a fling with Ash, a polyamorous, non-binary party animal who encourages Ty to explore his identity and self-expression more deeply than he ever has before. He and Inés also flirt and hook up over the summer, though Inés seems to take their relationship more seriously than Ty does.

Meanwhile, weeks of neglecting her antidepressants have put Dina in a depressive spell. She is unable to go to the Wonderdown music festival, and with Daniel and Ilana celebrating their wedding anniversary out of town, Jude is forced to stay at home to look after her. Dina and Jude argue about Dina neglecting her antidepressants, her refusal to cooperate with her therapist and her negative impact on Jude’s senior year. Dina points out that with Daniel and Ilana gone, no one would know if she and Jude went to Wonderdown, given that they bought the tickets in advance, but Jude insists they’re not going. Dina locks herself in her room.

On the second day of the festival, Addie texts back and forth with Filo, who is stuck at home due to her strict family. When they wake up, Walter and Ty share an intimate moment where they discuss the sex they had the night before, which was Walter's first time. Ty admits he had never been the top before that night, but that Walter makes him excited to do anything. The two then make out. Inés and Meghna bond as they walk through the campsite together, but when Meghna spots Neil at the festival, she abruptly turns to walk the other way, Inés following suit.

At night, Jude knocks on Dina’s door to check if she’s awake, but she doesn’t respond. Jude sneaks into her parents’ bedroom and grabs her Wonderdown ticket from her mother’s bedside drawer.

Inés stops a drunken Meghna from hooking up with an older man, sparking an argument between the two that ends in Meghna storming off. Addie receives a sext from Filo but doesn’t respond to it. She leaves her tent and bumps into Jude, to whom she confesses that she feels weird about attending her first Wonderdown without her older sister. During an intimate conversation in their tent, Ty asks about Walter’s scars. Assuming he’s talking about the scar on his forehead, Walter says he got the injury from a cycling accident as a kid. When Ty clarifies that he’s talking about the scars on Walter’s wrist, Walter denies their existence and quickly leaves. He finds Inés, and the two agree to watch one of the smaller performing acts together.

Dina unlocks her bedroom door and realizes that Jude has gone to the festival without her. After wandering the house alone for a while, she considers taking some pills in the medicine cabinet. Deciding against it, she packs a duffel bag with some basic necessities and heads out of the house. Meanwhile, during a quiet moment together, Addie kisses Jude, who moves away and apologizes for giving Addie the wrong idea. Sobbing, Addie confesses that she feels like she’s been led on by Filo, and Jude comforts her. An even drunker Meghna is stopped in her tracks by Neil, who fondles her and calls her a slut in front of his friends. He starts fingering her despite her protestations. Dina knocks on the door of the Fleming household. Gus opens the door and welcomes her inside.

Jude tells Addie that she's leaving Wonderdown, and Addie asks if she can drop her off at her house. Elsewhere, Inés admits to Walter that she has feelings for Ty but understands that there is chemistry between him and Walter. She also warns Walter that Ty is a “flighty” person. Ty walks up to the two of them and apologizes to Walter for disrespecting his boundaries. He looks like wants to say more, but can’t in Inés’s presence. The three make their way back to Walter and Ty’s tent together. Meghna intercepts them and pleads that she and Inés leave together, which they do. When Walter and Ty get back to their tent, Ty tries to kiss Walter, but he moves away.

At the end of the night, Jude gets back home and turns off all the lights, passing by Dina’s closed bedroom door as she does so.

## Cast

### Starring

* Chana Wilson as Dina Shulman
* Joshua Hollis as Walter Fleming
* Maya Levin as Jude Shulman
* Ralph McCowan as Ty Norton
* Gabby Mendoza as Inés Montoya
* Nadia Orenstein as Ilana Shulman
* Constance Presley as Addie Nadeau
* Saraswathi Radhakrishnan as Meghna Menon
* Barry Reiss as Daniel Shulman

### Featuring

* Zoë Bird as Ash
* Ethan Morse as Neil
* Todd Andrew Wilson as Gus Fleming
* Tyler Dodds-McGill, Jayden Kyle, Gregory Mills, Jeremy O'Hurn and Seth Robertson as Neil's friends