The View From Lake Como

A taxi drops Jess at her parents’ house, and everyone rushes outside to greet her. At the funeral mass, Jess prepares to eulogize Lil and, thereby, honor her uncle too. She delivers a loving, funny, and poignant eulogy that includes the family’s children passing out Lil’s coveted recipe for zeppole, a type of fried Italian pastry.

At the luncheon afterward, Jess is back on coffee and dessert duty, as though nothing has changed, but she feels very differently about it now. There’s no anxiety, no need for validation. Jess tells her mother that her lipstick needs to be touched up, and Phil laments that it took Jess coming home for Phil to be “seen” or noticed. Meanwhile, Jess’s friend and stylist, Lisa, is acting strangely, and so is Bobby. Suddenly, the front door opens, and Jess sees Mauro and Angelo standing there.

Everyone ogles the strangers. Jess tries to beat Phil to the front door, but Phil arrives first, and Mauro introduces himself as her nephew. Jess tries to pull her mother aside to talk quietly, but Phil is already getting upset.

Angelo asks why Jess didn’t let him know she was leaving as Conor and Gaetano walk in. Lisa is happy to see that Jess and Angelo seem to be in a relationship, as she’s been seeing Bobby since Ash Wednesday.