May? May? Yes, May. We were all very busy being unimpressed and bored by West and Debbie, talking a great deal about them in the process, so we sort of forgot that there were other characters running around at Claire’s high school, too.
A lot went awry in how the whole storyline was handled and everybody who wasn’t Claire and her dad was severely underdeveloped. The rumoured (?) early plan to have a lesbian cheerleader (named April) was scrapped when the actress became a regular on Desperate Housewives. April appears in the first episode, but does not get the chance to do much, let alone make her sexual orientation known. Claire’s friend Martha quickly and completely fades into the background after the first episode, too.
The only one who somewhat prevailed was May.
If you ask me, she is by far the most likeable person in that entire high school. She’s the one lobbying for Claire to get in the cheerleading team, the one standing up to Debbie. Her actress, Janel Parrish, is half Chinese and from Hawaii. Doesn’t that make May count as a character of colour?
I said lesbian cheerleader April got no chance to show us she was a lesbian. This is only mostly true. With some imagination, it still works. When everybody is leaving the gym after Claire failed to jump off the tower, (I think) she is the cheerleader who lingers a little longer than everybody else, watching Claire.
But then she had to go and be desperate with the housewives, and May took her place. I mean, the above scene hints that originally, April was intended to be the one who was nice to Claire, possibly motivated by finding her hot. Or maybe she just sensed that Claire was also keeping a secret and was trying to pretend to be someone she wasn’t in order to fit in, and just wanted to help because she knows what it’s like. Kindred spirits.
So, the real question is: Does May have a crush on Claire?
P.S.: I tagged the post “lesbian cheerleaders”, I cannot wait to see how many people find this blog looking for porn, hahaha. Sorry, guys and girls.
PPS: Of course she’s awesome, her name starts with M.
