No Hard Feelings

## Episode guide

"**No Hard Feelings**" is the eighth episode of the second season of *Maddox* and the twenty-second episode of the series overall. It premiered in 2023.

## Synopsis

On the night of the talent show, Boogie and Jaz finally have an honest conversation, Ellie bares her soul and Chloe walks in on a sinister act.

## Plot

It is the night of the end-of-year talent show. As members of the student council who will not be performing acts of their own, Boogie and Kaz have volunteered to work backstage to make sure all performers are where they need to be. Jaz receives a text from Jet inviting her to a party that night at Rob’s house.

With Mars, Ehsan and his parents cheering him on in the audience, Hakeem presents the short film *If Boys Could Talk* that he worked on earlier in the semester, in which he fictionalizes various permutations of the conversation he and Boogie could have had at the end-of-year dance the previous year. Boogie watches the short film from a laptop backstage.

As they wait backstage to perform, Dallas hypes Ellie up and reassures her that her song will go well even as her anxieties mount. Meanwhile, Boogie gives Jaz, Lucy, Andrea and Kelsey their call time and asks Jaz for a private moment in the hallway, where he tells her he forgives her for cheating and wants to patch things up. Jaz accuses him of only wanting to be with her as a prize and asks if he’s ever cheated on her. Their argument is overheard by Lucy, Andrea and Kelsey from their dressing room and Dallas and Ellie as they wait backstage. Boogie quietly admits to his kiss with Hakeem the year before. Jaz calls him a hypocrite, tells him she feels no regrets over cheating on him and ends the relationship. Before Boogie can respond, Kaz calls Jaz's group backstage.

With Dallas accompanying her on guitar, Ellie sings “Guts” by Leith Ross. She starts crying partway through the song and, unable to get through the rest, abruptly flees the stage. Dallas follows her. Spotting Boogie in the hallway, Dallas stops to give him a long, wordless hug, which Boogie quickly reciprocates.

Jaz, Lucy, Andrea and Kelsey perform a dance to “Screwed” by Janelle Monae. During their final bows, someone in the crowd yells out the word “whore”, which rattles Jaz as the girls leave the stage. The others attempt to cheer her up, but she asks to be left alone. She sits alone in the hallway, her eyes welling with tears as Debby performs “Tears Dry on Their Own” by Amy Winehouse with Hudson on piano. She eventually wipes her tears, gets up and walks off.

Ellie apologizes to Dallas for messing up the performance, but Dallas brushes it off, tells her that the song’s material makes it obviously difficult to perform to an audience and gives her a hug, congratulating her for giving it a shot. Boogie looks for Jaz in the hallway but is unable to find her. She is at Rob’s party, where she gets severely drunk. Rob eventually leads Jaz to his bedroom, where he starts kissing her despite her protestations. Before he can do anything else, Chloe opens the door to the room and sees them. Rob vaguely threatens Chloe not to tell anyone what she has seen and leaves the room. Chloe closes the door behind her and sits with her back against it, keeping an eye on Jaz.

## Credits

### Cast

#### Starring

* Allison Bourne as Ellie Vanderjagt
* Wesley Carter as Hakeem Franklin
* Julia Chee as Andrea Salazar
* Samir Devani as Ehsan Patel
* Emily Leung as Kelsey Ma
* Teanna Mathers as Jaz Miller
* Rosalía Mejía as Lucy Suárez
* Cleo Robinson as Debby Murphy
* T. J. Shapiro as Dallas Cowan
* Brandon Whitehead as Boogie Forman
* Tanner Paige Wise as Mars Maddox

#### Recurring

* Yolanda Burke as Tamika Franklin
* Leon Jeanpierre as Ali Franklin
* Laszlo Koroknay as Kaz Genszky
* Shannon York as Chloe Webster
* Jeffrey Yu as Hudson Wong
* Brayden Ziegler as Rob

## Trivia

* This episode takes its name from the song "No Hard Feelings" by Wolf Alice.