One man, two women who trusted him, and a summer that ended exactly the way Jemma said it would.
How It Started: Before the Show
The story of Jemma, Suede, and Dylan doesn’t begin at a party. It begins on a beach at Point Dume, with two women sharing a smoothie before the cameras have captured anything worth filming.
Suede Brooks and Nicole Sahebi are catching up when Jemma arrives. Jemma tells them about Dylan Wolf — her high school fling, the guy who spread the “Bloody Mary” rumor after she lost her virginity to him, the person who told her she was gross while she kept coming back. She says she is a little scarred. She says she made out with him recently and knows it’s not good.
Suede’s response is instant: “It’s smoke, babe.” If she sees Dylan, she has got Jemma’s back. She also adds the caveat — she cannot stand up for Jemma if Jemma keeps going back to him. Stand on business.
Suede doesn’t know Dylan yet. She has never met him. She is working entirely from Jemma’s account, and from that account, she has already drawn her line. What happens over the next eight episodes is the story of that line moving, inch by inch, until it disappears entirely.
Episode 1: The Midnight Snack Comment
Jemma’s party. Dylan arrives with Emma Medrano, which is its own problem, but the Suede thread starts at the bar.
Suede walks up to Dylan and tells him she heard he was a really shitty boyfriend. He corrects her: they never dated. She was a midnight snack. Actually, two AM. Sorry. He says it with a smile that makes clear he is not particularly sorry.
Suede calls him a prick and walks off. Jodie goes to find Jemma. The group assembles. Dylan announces he is dealing with an army of girls and makes a crude comment about Jemma. Suede tells him that women who care about him should not be treated that way. and walks off again.
In her confessional, Suede is clear: she stood on business. She saw exactly who Dylan was and called it. The beach conversation wasn’t a performance. She meant it.
What the show knows, and the viewer begins to suspect, is that the version of Dylan Suede met at that party is not the only version available.
Episode 2: Kiki-Chella
Kimora’s carnival. Dylan is there. Suede is there. They find each other at the bar.
They talk about horses. He suggests they go horseback riding. She says let’s go. He asks if she is on the market. She says she is. The flirtation is unambiguous and neither of them is pretending otherwise.
Jemma, Nicole, and Jodie clock it from across the party. Jemma says she hopes Dylan is not trying to flirt with Suede. Nicole reassures her Suede is just being cordial.
When the girls call Suede over, she tells them Dylan is crazy and she is not going to let some boy come between her and her friend. She says it directly to Jemma’s face. Jemma says the only person she needed to hear from was Suede. For now, that is enough.
Suede left Kiki-Chella with Dylan. She gave him a ride home. She told no one.
Episode 3: The TikTok & The Beach
The morning after Kiki-Chella, Suede tells Jemma about the ride before anyone else can. She frames it as nothing — something she would do for any member of the group. Jemma believes her. Preston mentions Dylan said he Ubered. Suede wonders aloud why he would lie about that. Jemma wonders if he is building it into something bigger than it is.
Then Suede says the thing that catches Jemma off guard. She tells her she saw a different side of Dylan at the party — vulnerable, sweet, caring. She thinks the growth he has shown since getting sober is real and worth a second chance. As a big sister, she tells Jemma, she needs her to move on.
Jemma tells the cameras: “He didn’t just break my heart. He literally tore me apart.”
Then the TikTok drops. Suede doing the “something to take the edge off” trend with a guy whose tattoos give him away immediately. Emma, watching with Alexie, calls it pretty messy on Suede’s end. Nicole, watching with Jemma, cannot believe it.
The beach day that follows is the episode’s defining image. Dylan in a chair. Suede between his legs, her head in his lap, rubbing his legs, telling him she still has his Chrome hoodie. When she gets up to grab something from the girls’ side of the circle, he watches her walk away and says “missed you” when she returns. She grabs her bag and walks back to him without sitting down with the women.
Nicole pulls Suede for a one-on-one. She tells her Jemma is hurt — not because Suede did something criminal, but because she was the one saying Dylan was trash and now she is sitting between his legs at the beach. Suede: “But for her, it’s like, girl, why are you getting upset over a man that won’t claim you?” Nicole asks if she likes Dylan. Suede says maybe she will explore it, and if she does, so be it. She adds: “There is no girl code.”
Nicole tells the cameras she is confused about what Suede considers a friend.
Episode 4: Yamashiro
Dylan and Suede go to dinner. It starts warm — he talks about finding God, she says she loves the 180, they find their footing. Then he brings up communication. He is calm, specific, and completely unbothered by whether what he is saying lands well. She keeps disappearing for days at a time. He doesn’t want to be left hanging. He asks her to check her call log.
She tells him she will try harder. He says it sounds nice, but he believes in action. She tells him he seems like he has a chip on his shoulder. He laughs and says he doesn’t. She thanks him for dinner and walks out mid-meal.
He asks for the check.
Episode 5: The Blame Game
The date fallout travels fast. Suede tells Nicole about it over smoothies at Nicole’s apartment — Dylan was doing small jabs the whole time, she says, like a 12-year-old who has never talked to a woman. Nicole says that is the only Dylan she has ever known.
Then Dylan sits down with Suede to apologize — and ends the lunch by telling her that Preston mentioned Nicole went around and told all the girls about the bad date. Suede FaceTimes Nicole on the spot. Nicole, unfazed: “Oh, babe, it wasn’t me. Dylan was the one who told everybody about this. But if you want, Dylan, I’ll take the fall.” Dylan denies it. Nicole asks him directly whether he told Preston nothing. He says he doesn’t give two f—ks whether they know or not. Nicole: “You’re so smart, Dylan.”
After the call, Dylan turns to Suede: “Do you think Nicole did it?” Suede: “A hundred percent.” Dylan: “All right. You got the rat.”
He had just spent four episodes watching Jemma get labeled paranoid for describing this exact behavior. He is now running the same play on a different woman. Suede, who spent the episode telling Nicole she felt like she finally understood Jemma, believed him anyway.
The Finale: The War Is Over
By the finale, all three storylines converge. Jemma announced “war is over” to the friend group after a long-overdue heart-to-heart with Dylan, saying the conversation brought them closure and that they were able to put things in the past and start fresh. Dylan apologized for the pain he caused and acknowledged that his behavior had stemmed more from his own personal struggles than from anything about her.
That closure was immediately put to the test when Jemma snuck into Dylan’s room later that night. Dylan joked afterward that she may have just turned off the lights while he was asleep, but the timing raised questions that the show left deliberately unanswered.
As for Suede, by the end of the season she told Dylan directly: “I feel like now I get Jemma. You f—ked Jemma up, babe. Like, bad. The way you treat women.” It is the most honest thing she says all season, and it is also the thing Jemma spent eight episodes trying to get someone to say out loud.
Where They Stand Now
The triangle, officially, is over — though the edges of it are still visible if you look.
Dylan and Jemma confirmed post-season that they are not together romantically. Dylan told Tudum they are in “a healthy place, for once in a really long time” and that he wishes nothing but the best for her. Jemma has confirmed only that she has learned to no longer kiss and tell.
Suede and Dylan also ended without a label. After filming, the two were still visibly flirting on social media — she commented “there he goes” and he replied “buzz me in” — before Dylan briefly pursued Delilah Belle Hamlin. That relationship is also now over. Suede’s post-season assessment: “He’s one of my favourite people. How could you get mad at him for longer than a few hours? Never too late.”
As for Jemma and Suede: they are no longer friends. Suede confirmed the two do not share the same values. Jemma, for her part, said she is glad she found that out before the friendship went any deeper.
Dylan, meanwhile, raised his hand at the post-season cast interview when asked who among the group is currently in a situationship. He declined to say who with.
Some things, apparently, do not change.
Calabasas Confidential Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.
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