Warning: This text incorporates MAJOR SPOILERS for Peacock's Laid!
Due to the macabre premise, Prepared the primary season consists of 21 deaths that vary from stunning to outrageously ridiculous, including comedy to Ruby's horrific state of affairs. The darkish comedy present, which holds 96% Rotten tomatoes rating, is predicated on an Australian program of the identical title. The Peacock present follows Ruby Yao, a 33-year-old girl who discovers that each one of her ex-boyfriends are dying within the order during which she slept with them. She and her greatest buddy AJ determined to trace the deaths, discover out what was making them, and warn the following victims.
Nonetheless, this turns into troublesome with Ruby's energetic intercourse life and excessive physique depend. To maintain observe of everybody concerned, AJ creates a “intercourse timeline” which describes everybody Ruby has slept with, their historical past, after they had intercourse, what particular acts they carried out, and any figuring out particulars about their genitalia. All through the collection, they replace the image, including new data that emerges, akin to the way of loss of life. This makes it simpler to maintain observe of the women and men who die. By the top of the darkish comedy, all however three of Ruby's former sexual companions have died.
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David, Ruby's first sexual accomplice
Earlier than Laid, Season 1, Episode 1, “Brandon From School”
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Ruby had intercourse for the primary time together with her highschool boyfriend, David, who touched her at promenade. Though he by no means appeared on display, David is portrayed as considered one of Ruby's greatest exes. She describes him as candy and may't bear in mind precisely why they broke up. Based mostly on Ruby's voicemails whereas calling him, they stated Ruby would go away messages on his answering machine pretending to be totally different celebrities.
Sadly, she finds out by way of a cellphone name that David has died of sepsis. Regardless that she solely finds out about his loss of life on the finish of Prepared season 1, episode 1, he really died earlier than Brandon. This revelation helps AJ understand that Ruby's exes are dying within the order during which she slept with them.
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School Brandon Rafferty
Laid Season 1, Episode 1, “Brandon From School”
The primary loss of life Ruby discovers in Prepared is that of her ex-boyfriend, Brandon Rafferty, from faculty. At first, she doesn't even bear in mind him, however she ultimately discovers that he was the person who farted slightly each time he thrust throughout intercourse, which led to his nickname "Farty Scorsese." She and AJ additionally agreed at college that he appeared like a tall Bilbo Baggins.
The very best mates attend Brandon's funeral solely to find that he was a virgin when he slept with Ruby, and he grew to become obsessed together with her after they broke up, even naming his canine after her. Regardless of your greatest efforts, AJ and Ruby by no means learn how he diedsuspecting {that a} gunshot killed him.
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Jeffrey, Brandon's greatest buddy
Laid Season 1, Episode 1, “Brandon From School”
At Brandon's funeral, Ruby runs into Brandon's greatest buddy Jeffrey, who she additionally had intercourse with. The 2 go away the funeral, however battle when Ruby tries to kiss him. Jeffrey blames her for ruining his friendship with Brandon in faculty, although he found it first. After calling her a horrible particular person, he stops the Uber and storms out into the road. A driver hits him, sending him flying into the Uber's windshield. This is likely one of the most stunning and bloody on-screen deaths in Preparedsetting the tone for the remainder of the present.
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Michael Schloss
Laid Season 1, Episode 2, “FB To The T”
Though most of Ruby's former sexual companions seem on display, one of many few characters who doesn't is Michael Schloss. They don't add any particulars about him within the intercourse timeline, so his relationship with Ruby is mysterious. He lived from 1987 to 2024, making him 37 years previous on the time of his loss of life. When speaking to the detective about having a stalker, Ruby reveals she died of anorexiaclaiming {that a} stalker might have taken benefit of his sickness to kill him. After her loss of life, somebody who had her account preferred considered one of Ruby's Instagram posts, which was a paraphrased poem.
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Robert, the person Ruby thought she would marry
Laid Season 1, Episode 2, “FB To The T”
Out of all of the folks she has slept with, Ruby solely expresses real love for 2 of her exes in Prepared. Robert is the person she and her mates thought she would marry. AJ and Ruby by no means focus on why the pair broke up, however it's clear that Ruby is heartbroken over shedding him. Sadly, she goes to his marriage ceremony and not using a date, which confronts him.
In response, he tells Ruby that she is just too egocentric for anybody to need a severe, long-term relationship together with her. This sends her spiraling, main Ruby to sleep with Zack - AJ's on-again, off-again boyfriend of 5 years. After she and Zack left for the forest, AJ hears Robert say he's dying of lymphomawhich is confirmed as the strategy of loss of life in his obituary.
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Stu Jackward, the baseball participant
Laid Season 1, Episode 2, “FB To The T”
When speaking about baseball participant Stu Jackward to AJ, Ruby describes it as her first grownup relationship. Stu tossed Ruby a t-shirt from the canon of t-shirts together with his cellphone quantity on them at an occasion. After she known as him, he took her to Ruth's Chris Steak Home. Throughout intercourse, Stu gave Ruby her first orgasm.
Nonetheless, she sees him die on a TV display alongside everybody else. Prepared season 1, episode 2. Stu Jackward takes a ball to the temple throughout a baseball sportwhich AJ shortens to “FB to the T” all through Season 1. After the loss of life, the mascot doesn't understand what's taking place and tries to cheer up the gang, giving the state of affairs a hilarious dichotomy.
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Ruby's Intercourse Cluster (Simon, João, Philipe & Jordana, Chuck, Corbin the Clown, Lug, Pete the Bartender, and Brian Glidewell)
Laid Season 1, Episode 3, “Intercourse Cluster”
Episode 3 of Prepared focuses completely on Ruby's “intercourse group,” a bunch of 10 folks with whom Ruby had intercourse over a brief time period. The members of the intercourse group embrace a finance brother, a former change scholar, two members of a trio, a person she met at Popeyes, a clown, a person who ate her emotions, a bar trivia host, a bartender and a person who disappeared.
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Characters |
Technique of Loss of life |
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Simon |
Automotive accident |
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John |
Chainsaw within the chest |
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Philippe and Jordana |
Sauna malfunction |
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Chuck |
Climbing accident |
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Corbin the Clown |
Coronary heart assault |
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Lucas/Lug |
Colon Blast at a Burpees Bootcamp |
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Pete the Bartender |
Unknown |
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Brian Glidewell |
"Glid nicely into the afterlife" |
Ruby and AJ intend to warn folks that they will die, however virtually none of them consider her, considering she is being dramatic. The one one that totally believes within the intercourse/loss of life timeline is Richie, the one member of the intercourse group who doesn't die.
Laid Season 1, Episode 4, “Flagstaff”
Overtly homosexual actor John Early performs a fictionalized model of himself within the solid of Prepared. Ruby and John met firstly of COVID-19, throughout a mutual buddy's barbecue. They'd intercourse after consuming maitais as a result of he figured it might be higher to sleep with a girl as soon as, resulting in a hilarious intercourse scene the place they wore masks.
Ruby tries to warn him about her impending loss of life whereas on a airplane, however he says that until she pays him $2.5 million, he'll go to Flagstaff to promote an Icelandic yogurt known as Siggi. In the end, this determination results in his loss of life, as he's the one particular person to die in a airplane crash.
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Caleb the financial institution teller
Laid Season 1, Episode 5, “Secret Comfortable”
The primary scene of Prepared reveals Ruby warning Caleb of his impending loss of life by way of the glass at his financial institution job. She reminds him that they met at a bar and ate White Russians and clam linguini collectively. They stayed within the toilet and he gave them the incorrect quantity. Nonetheless, she by no means calls, so she solely finds out after speaking to him on the financial institution. Whereas she's with the detective, A shootout happens on the financial institution, killing Caleb. Regardless of not having the ability to be current on the financial institution, the detective continues to suspect that she killed her ex-boyfriends.
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Aubrey, “One Who Bought Away” by Ruby
Laid Season 1, Episode 6, “Extra Good-looking Than Joe”
In addition to Robert, the one particular person Ruby expresses that she loves is “the one which bought away” – Aubrey La Binga. Ruby goes to Aubrey's tattoo parlor to warn her of her impending loss of life, however she will be able to't work up the braveness. As an alternative, she asks Aubrey to present her a tattoo Prepared so that they have extra time collectively. As they put together Ruby for her tattoo, they speak about their relationship.
Aubrey and Ruby dated for over a yr, and Ruby solely informed her girlfriend about her father's estrangement six months after their romance started. Aubrey says Ruby saved her at a distance after which broke up so they may “rediscover ourselves as people.”Sadly, throughout their intimate dialog, Aubrey will get shot within the head by chancespraying blood on Ruby and Richie.
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Marcus, the waiter on the Chocolatorium
Laid Season 1, Episode 7, “Toby & Lindsey Are”
One among Ruby's current sexual companions, who's barely mentioned all through Prepared, It's Marcus, the waiter on the Chocolatorium. Marcus labored at a restaurant known as Chuckaboo's Chocolatorium. It's unclear how they met or the occasions that led to their connection. Based mostly on the intercourse timeline data, they solely had intercourse as soon as and he had a really clear toilet. Ruby learns of her loss of life when Isaac arrives to say he believes her. After researching the folks on Ruby's sexual timeline, Isaac went to speak to Marcus at his workplace and noticed him working by way of the burning restaurant.
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The Brett Heely Trio
Laid Season 1, Episode 8, “Il Mostro Del Sesso”
After Marcus, Ruby slept with a bunch of musicians known as the Brett Heely Trio, who have been on tour with Kelly Clarkson. Whereas planning Isaac's dad and mom' party, she books the group to play. Within the last episode of Prepared Within the first season, AJ runs after dinner with Amanda Knox to make up with Ruby. The very best mates and Isaac watch the group die whereas acting on stage.
The primary dies due to an allergic response to shrimp, the second dies as a result of he was electrocuted and the third is crushed by a large chandelier. After their deaths, Ruby takes steps to switch the spell to her upstairs neighbor.
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"Unhealthy Intercourse Advertisements on Spotify" Jason
Laid Season 1, Episode 8, “Il Mostro Del Sesso”
The ultimate loss of life on the finish of Prepared season one is the person she dated within the first episode, Jason. They went on three dates collectively earlier than having intercourse. On their third date, they mentioned their dangerous dates, with Ruby revealing {that a} man she dated talked about cannibalism. The pair then went to his condo, the place they'd horrible intercourse. In response to Ruby, the worst factor was the irregular rhythm. The romantic playlist was additionally interrupted by Spotify adverts, incomes him the nickname “Spotify dangerous intercourse adverts, Jason.”
Ruby thinks the spell transferred efficiently when he hasn't been lifeless for a month. Nonetheless, she discovers that her exes are nonetheless dying when Jason plunges to his loss of life on the zoo after his run. Consequently, Zack and Isaac will die in Prepared season two in the event that they don't discover a strategy to cease what's actually inflicting the deaths.