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I'm really bummed about this - I like The Wilds so much better than Yellowjackets, though with the escape of the adults via helicopter at the last minute, it did turn into cartoon territory. (And I won't be sorry to NOT see Seth sexually assault more people, so there's that.) But I don't understand Amazon Prime Video at all - they don't seem to do any marketing at all. If they were really trying to make a go of their original series, don't you think they'd be more prominently displayed on, say, the Amazon homepage at least? How is anyone supposed to know they are there?

So... I finished this episode and here I am, 48 hours later beginning a rewatch and this jumped out at me from E1: Shauna (fucking Jeff in the car): If you cum inside me, I will raise the baby out of spite and train it to become a killing machine that eventually hunts you down. Given that Shauna is pregnant and no one seems to know what happens to the baby (including Melanie Lynskey, if you believe her in interviews), I kind of want this to come back around. Forget Jeff's dumbass blackmail plot! I wonder if that made it into the journals?!

I loved that, and thought it was very telling. Also, I ended up liking Jeff a lot more by the end of this episode, stupid blackmail plot notwithstanding. He seems to genuinely love Shauna and be genuinely hurt that she cheated on him (and yet also pragmatic enough not to get overly distracted by that in the moment to derail from the fact that, you know, Shauna murdered someone. YMMV, but I hate when people are like "but now we have to emotionally unpack this in the midst of this other, more immediate crisis!" Like: Not now, Skippy, we can deal with your feelings later.) Also: There was no BOOK CLUB?! Was comedy gold. And I suspect that Misty might eventually have to disappear TWO bodies, since I can't see reporter Jessica Michaels getting out of there alive. Not to mention that Misty has a pretty involved kidnapping set up in that basement? Seems like this is maybe not her first time at that particular rodeo.

Me too! I'm enjoying it so far, though I consistently feel like the episodes are 5-10 minutes too long.

I don't know who the casting agent is for this show, but holy crap, when DJ opened the door, he looked SO MUCH like Rachel Griffiths I sincerely wondered whether they CGI'ed it. And now I will watch the last ep.

In what is perhaps an unusual GG history, the first episode of GG I ever saw was Raincoats & Recipes, so I watched from there to the end in real time and then went back and watched the beginning via borrowed DVDs*. In hindsight, the later seasons weren't great, but I still watch the whole thing all the way through - even when it's not great, it's still pleasant and comfortable. *Just after a terrible breakup, so there were a LOT of tears, but that's neither here nor there and not the show's fault!

So... in rewatching (again, because I need an escape these days), I just rewatched Love, Daisies and Troubadours and I finally got why Max's proposal bothered me so much: why on earth would Max send the daisies to the Inn? "Hi, strange townfolk, please feel free to jump directly to your worst instincts and pry AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE into Lorelai's private life!" I realize that I am more introverted and private than most, and public proposals give me secondhand embarrassment and anxiety under all circumstances, but in Stars Hollow? That would have been an immediate no. Especially when their relationship becoming public the first time around was such a disaster for all concerned!

Maybe that's exactly her thinking! They're both kind of odious and she figures they deserve each other! (Although, to be fair, Marina doesn't know that it was Pen that betrayed her at this point, she thinks she's doing something nice for Pen.)

They never said anything about Kate's biological mother, but if she wasn't a capital-L Lady, doesn't that make Kate technically ineligible to participate in the marriage market of the 'ton anyway? Edwina is only eligible through her mother, and even then, she's tainted by scandal. Without the Queen declaring Edwina the "diamond", she would probably not have been considered a good match for the men of the Ton unless the Sheffield dowry was truly a marvel. (... and I think I just answered my earlier question about this season about why Kate wasn't "ruined" despite her many alone-times with Anthony - if she was not a gentlewoman, she wouldn't have been considered ruin-able anyway*.) *Note: obviously, all this is Regency era bullshit and does not reflect my own opinions, just trying to figure out the weird structure of this society.

Slide over and make room for me, because I couldn't agree more - I think this season should have been one shorter; I'm not 100% sure what major plot points happened in episode 5, but I'd vote for condensing 4 & 5 and getting to the wedding sooner.

One thing that I find very interesting about this season is the amount of time that Kate and Anthony are spending alone, with the knowledge of other people, and no one seems to be screaming about him "ruining" her, a la the Featherington entrapment plan. They were alone on the hunt, they were alone while playing Pall Mall, Daphne caught them alone in the library after they both publicly left the dance floor, they were alone in the gardens, they've had private conversations all over the damn place and not a whisper of Kate being ruined! I realize she's a spinster, but still: a RESPECTABLE spinster, still eligible for Regency-era ruining! I guess we're just to take it on faith that all of the people who could have (or did!) "catch" them have no motivation for scandal, but still. I am loving this season, but: truly, there must be some actual action soon or I will scream! (Though... I plan to watch the last three tonight, so hopefully I'll no longer be "vexed"!)

I think my favorite character is the Logic Rock, but... all of the monsters work better as side characters and this show doesn't have a center. The kids in Big Mouth are clearly the center and the monsters are accents. In HR, because they each have a singular interest or quality, none of them are interesting enough to carry a plot by themselves.

Oh man, I felt for Anthony in that scene! Shut up Lady Danbury*, maybe he doesn't WANT to propose in front of the ENTIRE family! *I love her, and that move was entirely in character, but yikes, lady! They've known each other for 10 minutes! Poor Edwina was clearly so uncomfortable with the competitiveness of the Pall Mall game - with only a sister around, she's never been around boys before, never mind the dynamics of a large family. She just couldn't hang. Which: can you imagine if she can't handle an afternoon of Pall Mall what would happen if she becomes Viscountess Bridgerton? She'll effectively be in charge of the whole household and THAT would be disastrous!

The secondhand embarrassment I had while watching the Dudes on Parade! And then Anthony, up there reading Benedict's poem - I literally watched between my fingers. The whole episode was geared to knocking Anthony down a peg, which is good, but I hope that the next ep does the same to Kate!

I am going to try and limit myself to one episode per day (we'll see how that goes), but the thing I noticed and really enjoyed in this first episode was Pen's internal angst about the Featherington family's financial situation - you could tell that, in spite of how terrible they are to her, she really was kind of worried about her sister not having a dowry and the talk of selling the candlesticks. That said, I REALLY loved that she was like: Pay the delivery boys more and also, oh, we're late today? Take some extra money for your troubles - it's kind of a joy to watch her exercise some authority when she's completely ignored and/or bullied by her family all the rest of the time!

I mean, not really? Even back in the dark ages of the late 90s and early 00s in small town Connecticut (ask me how I know!), you needed signed permission forms and physicals to participate in activities like cheerleading and marching band, not to mention registration fees and instrument rentals (As an aside, did we ever know what instrument Lane played in the marching band?) and the upkeep on the uniforms. So unless the unseen-until-AYITL Papa Kim was secretly signing stuff and keeping it from Mama Kim, it seems deeply unlikely in any kind of real world way that Lane is getting away with that without parental knowledge. This is another Palladino-verse thing that you have to ignore because if you think about it too hard the whole illusion falls apart.

I'm certain that someone more versed in GG lore has already realized this, however, I just realized it and had nowhere else to go with my feelings* and thought you all might be sympathetic to the fact that I just noticed that the chuppah (THE CHUPPAH, the one LUKE makes for LORELAI for the ill-fated wedding with Max) shows up at Sookie and Jackson's wedding! WHY? I would, were I Sookie and Jackson (terrible music selections, notwithstanding) not want anything to do with Lorelai and Max's trainwreck not-to-be nuptials anywhere NEAR my wedding! Talk about bad luck! No WONDER Jackson later lies about the vasectomy! They got married under a BAD OMEN! (**) *Are they outsized under the circumstances? Yes. Did it bother me ALL DAY, so much so that I went on Netflix and found the episode in question to look at it again to make sure I wasn't seeing things before I came here to complain about it? ... also yes. We've been in a global pandemic for a long time. ** Kidding! I just couldn't resist, because that storyline is such character assassination later on. Maybe the chuppah goat was more irate than we thought! (STILL KIDDING.)

I think that's true for adults, which can be a little hard to keep sight of on this show, since these "teenagers" are mostly, you know, not teenagers IRL, but chronologically, when you're not far from the big drama of your FIRST kiss, then your partner kissing someone else could seem like a very big deal. I suspect this is the kind of thing that you would look back on, in your 20s/30s, or even when your own kids are teenagers and be like "well, that seemed like a really big deal at the time, but it turned out to be very very minor in the grand sweep of my life."

OMG. This is the most brilliant analysis I've ever hear. I love it. It's perfect, especially in the revival. Though I would like to hope that, post revival, Rory swings back to the Lorelai end of things, unless Logan/Wookie/Forgettable Boyfriend is going to become Lorelai!

To me, that's exactly what Otis was trying to do - He felt bad about what happened with Maeve, so he did the Otis version of withdrawing from others and shut himself down from getting involved with other people. Despite their differences, they have the same fundamental reaction: pull back and stop engaging with people.

I did too, but I hope that they don't get involved romantically - they both seem to have no real friends (although I do love that Ola seems to be trying with Adam) and I'd love them to be pals rather than romantic interests. (Though I get why the show - and kids IRL at small schools - would be like, "well, these are the only options, there are only three of us!")

Oh god, and then there's me, the last time I was in a position where I knew a declaration of love was coming at me and all I could do was sit there and think "Don't say thank you, don't say thank you, don't say thank you, don't say thank you...." 😂 That was a hard moment to watch, because I felt for both Ruby and Otis - it's an awkward spot to be in, but it's especially awful when - as for Ruby - it's the first time you've been in that position.

Whether Jackson handled things well with Cal or not (I think in the end they both seemed to come to a good place), I really LOVED the two conversation's that Jackson had with his mom. He broached the subject, she didn't blink (or get extremely pushy) and it was just a lovely parent-child conversation that is not the norm on TV.

Oh, this rang true to me - I've known lots of people who had less than stellar home lives who put on a good show of wealth outside of it if they think it will help them socially. And especially in Ruby's case, I think it makes sense - if her dad is sick, it's much easier for her parents to afford to buy Ruby a nice handbag and some jewelry than move to a nicer house. I did gasp when she said ILY to Otis though - I could see it coming and it was like watching a trainwreck in slow motion.

YES, this. But I also thought that the show did a good job of showing how someone like Tim would fall through the cracks because his life looked *just* stable enough on the surface to not need focused attention. But there is no excuse for how all the adults looked the other way at his drinking - it shouldn't be common knowledge to everyone involved with the team and the boosters that he was playing hungover a lot of the time.