Willie and Bill seem unsettled and emotional, even after each says “I’m sorry.” Besides, Bill is jobless right now, but we don’t think he came back to Duffy, Georgia, just to get a shot at the DWL championship belt in the leaky Dome, do we? I feel this reconciliation of sorts is not the end of this relationship. It is fantastic writing and absorbing performances by Mary McCormack and Chris Bauer in the best scene of the season so far. She was a “fucking oasis” when his world crumbled around him, and nothing that happened between them could ever excuse bringing her daughter into their conflict. But that doesn’t excuse what Bill said to her about the abortion she had all those years ago, especially when she took him into her home when he seemed to have nowhere else to go.
Willie admits to her mistake and apologizes for it. Bill admits that he loved Willie and that getting tossed for Tom messed him up. She’s sorry now, especially when Bill, a vulnerable Bill we have had yet to see, finally “consolidate into a cogent thought” how that made him feel, and how it changed him from a man capable of kindness to the Bill who threw a painful moment from their past in Willie’s face. She was also his girlfriend. But then big-league wrestling came calling for Tom, Tom asked Willie to become his valet, and she said yes. A couple of decades ago, when Willie, Bill, and Tom Spade were building the DWL in Duffy, Willie was Bill’s valet. It turns out that potential friendship-ending blowup between Willie and Wild Bill was just the latest chapter in their history of breakups. “House Show” kicked the tricklings up to a torrent, giving us the juicy details on what is shaping the characters’ most profound relationship conflicts. Heels has only gotten better with every episode because of the pace and order with which the writers have dribbled out the backstories of these small-town wrestling gods and goddesses.
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