If you’re in love, Valentine’s Day is the best holiday, but if your relationship is really new, secret, or hanging on by a thread, the holiday is the stuff of nightmares.

On Katy Keene, hearts were breaking everywhere and it wasn’t anything Ginger’s Toni Braxton cover could fix… though, it did make the pain slightly more tolerable.

We all saw it coming from a mile away, but KO and Katy called it quits after attempting to be roomies for a half episode.

The whole roomie situation was birthed from Katy’s desire to still be with KO even though she recognized that she didn’t want to marry him.

Katy was only delaying the inevitable, and KO’s presence in the already crowded house simply underlined what she was already suspecting: he didn’t fit into her life anymore.

She kept holding onto this notion that they were soulmates because they’d been together for so long and KO was her “family,” but the truth is that they were growing apart.

While Katy was “trying” to make it work, she didn’t actually want it to work, so nothing she would have done would have been successful.

When Katy was forced to be brutally honest with herself and KO, she found the strength to let him go even though it hurt like hell.

That’s the toughest thing about life, sometimes, the right thing is also the hardest thing to do.

I have no doubt Katy will bounce back from this stronger than ever, and being single in New York will allow her to focus on her dreams of becoming a designer.

The series went out of its way to showcase that KO wasn’t just figuratively getting in the way of those dreams, he was quite literally in the way of them.

I’m not sure why they made him out to be such a klutz in this episode, but maybe it was to help the audience feel as annoyed by his presence as Katy did?

Everything KO did unintentionally made things worse — he didn’t stand a chance.

When his stuff was all over the apartment, Jorge and Josie were upset, when he cleaned the apartment, everyone said it ruined the ecosystem they’ve built, when he tried to make them lasagna, he inadvertently started a fire and burned George’s wigs, and when he showed up at Lacy’s, he interrupted Katy’s conversation with her favorite stylist and got blood on a silk blouse.

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KO couldn’t win, and this made it easier for the audience — at least the few of us that got mildly attached to his character — to let him go.

Josie was also stuck between a rock and a hard place. There are so many puns about her situation, but the best one has to be that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too when it came to Alexander.

And we can’t blame her; he’s a snack!

Thankfully, Josie made the decision using her head and told him that she came to New York with the dream of writing music and snagging a record deal. Pursuing a relationship with him would only be a distraction.

Alexander seems to have understood that as he’s also trying to prove and make something of himself.

But I highly doubt these two will be able to keep things strictly professional.

Then again, Alexander did get his sister some kind of lingerie-type robe as a Valentine’s Day gift, which was just weird on so many levels, so maybe this is for the best.

Josie’s storyline is fun to watch for fans of Riverdale because she’s never forgotten where she came from. Literally, she reminds us that she’s from Riverdale, the murder capital of the world, on a daily basis. She also made a sweet nod to her ex-boyfriend Archie Andrews and offered to bury Buzz’s body in her hometown because “no one will ever find it.” Hilarious.

While many of you would probably pinpoint Amanda as the villain of the series (and I get it, she’s a piece of work), I have to say that there’s something odd about Alexandra.

I can’t tell if she signed Jimmy because she truly believes that he’s good, because she wanted to stick it to her brother, or because she wanted to help him win back Josie. I felt like the latter was the most likely because if she takes Jimmy out of the equation, Josie and Alex fall right back into each other’s arms… or so she hopes.

Josie needs to watch her back around that girl, but again, she’s from Riverdale so it’s fine.

Jorge found a new squeeze after putting Buzz in his place.

The two of them dated for nearly a year and yet, Buzz never even met Jorge’s friends because he was so in the closet. And that’s fine, if he’s not ready to come out, that’s his prerogative, but it’s also unfair to expect Jorge to put his life on hold.

And even then, Jorge did that and gave him a year before realizing that this relationship would never be what he wanted it to be — exclusive.

It didn’t take him/Ginger (I’m using the ‘he’ pronoun for now because I don’t think it has been specified yet) long to get back on the wagon and the firefighter was much more receptive and comfortable in his own skin and with his own sexuality.

And just like Riverdale, Katy Keene has some of the best names. I know the show is based on the Archie Comics, but it still evokes a chuckle with names like Buzz Brown and Bernardo, especially since Katy’s world is so normal compared to that of Archie, Jughead, Betty, and Veronica’s.

Finally, we have Pepper Smith, a broke socialite who is taking the “fake it till you make it” slogan to heart and using it as her motto in life.

On Katy Keene Episode 2, Pepper gave off a faux heiress Anna Delvey vibe (you can read that piece here), and I’m not ready to give that theory up just yet.

Delvey must have been incredibly savvy in convincing people to pay for her, give her money, and more, and Pepper seems to have that talent also.

Fortunately, I think Pepper’s story arc is going to have a happier ending. Pepper has what it takes to play with the big boys, she’s simply lacking the capital.

But when she needed twenty-thousand upfront in cash to get renovations on her space started and heat installed, she found a sugar daddy whom she then tricked into buying her 20K worth of belongings before threatening to sell him out to his wife, waltzing off with all the purchases, and then returning them for the cold hard cash.

It was pretty brilliant, not to mention, she even crafted the perfect sob story about needing tuition money after her parents cut her off.

Seeing her in action like that convinced me that she’ll be able to pull off this dream arts space without so much as lifting a finger.

Other Lacy’s Musings

• Gloria has such a soft spot for Katy and poor Amanda cannot compete.
• Does this mean they’ll slowly start phasing KO out?
• The fake names are the best. Vanity Flair is my favorite magazine from now on.
• Broadway legend Bernadette Peters as Mrs. Freesia, Pepper’s con mom was everything. I love that she has a black book of men with enormous bank accounts and nothing to do with them!

What did you think of episode 3 of Katy Keene?

Did she do the right thing by being honest with KO and breaking things off?

How are you enjoying the series so far?