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    S02.E08: In Terms of Winning and Losing

    in The Gilded Age

    We need season three. Still processing this episode.

    Larrian!!! When the appropriate amount of time has passed, please let them court and marry. I also want comedic family dinners with the Russells and Agnes.

    If Gladys must be a dollar princess, let her and the duke fall in love. She deserves better than Consuelo Vanderbilt. George is Team Gladys and so will be Larry. If he marries Marian that will get them connected to 'old' NYC.

    Turnerton just can't let things go even though Bertha was never mean to her. Enjoy your money and your indulgent husband. 

    Glad Peggy peaced-out on the newspaper. Perhaps she'll teach writing at the school. 

    So what is Oscar to do now? If there's a season three, he can go on a mission to find Maud.

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    Mrs. Astor Approves. The Real Gilded Age

    in The Gilded Age

    Got some goodies from the library (just returned the Matthew Perry book--really good yet sad reading) and got "740 Park" by Michael Gross (not directly gilded age but adjacent), and "The Husband Hunters" by Anne de Courcy that chronicles the 'dollar princesses.' Bummed that my library and Kindle Unlimited don't have Consuelo's "The Glitter and the Gold," but will try to find it. Don't want to buy it because I doubt it's something I'd reread. 

    I'm open to other GA related book recs.

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    S02.E06: Warning Shots

    in The Gilded Age

    I really hope the rev's illness is a misdiagnosis. Please let Ada have a few years of happiness. It would be funny if he came from old Boston money and leaves the majority to her. I would like to see the dynamic change between the sisters. Agnes bulldozes everyone and it gets old and makes me dislike her. 

    It would be nice if Peggy could start a society of lady writers.

    I want Larian as the end game. He seems like he'd encourage her art and teaching. Can't imagine Bertha and Agnes being in-laws. LOL If that happens we need a funny Christmas dinner episode in the future.

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    S02.E06: Warning Shots

    in The Gilded Age

    Is there another newspaper/magazine Peggy can work for? Please get her away from predator Fortune. Maybe she can do her muckraking elsewhere? 

    I really hope Ada helps Marian get out of that "engagement." Can't Dashiell find some youngish widow to find? Introduce him to Mrs Blane. 

    I really wish we got more episodes this season. Here's to hope for season three to be longer! There's so much going on. 

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    S02.E05: Close Enough to Touch

    in The Gilded Age

    5 hours ago, Shermie said:

    I gotta point out again that this show takes place in the same timeline as Little House on the Prairie. You’d think the Ingalls lived 100 years earlier, given their crapshack of a house and ragbag clothes. And it’s not because they’re rural, everyone else on LHOTP had a real house and decent furniture. It just boggles my mind that, theoretically, Pa and Ma Ingalls could be mingling with the Van Rijns and the Russells.

    You just made me giggle a little too hard. My cats are wondering what's wrong. 

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    S02.E05: Close Enough to Touch

    in The Gilded Age

    Does Oscar live with Agnes and Marian or does he have his own place? I don't think it would be considered unusual for a fully grown son to have his own place. He's at least in his 30s. I could see Larry not having his own yet since he's a recent Harvard grad.

    S02.E05: Close Enough to Touch

    in The Gilded Age

    10 hours ago, Roseanna said:

    An "ordinary" duke (whitout HRH) doesn't belong to royalty but but aristocracy. 

    Until WW1, British royals married royals (usually German where they were plenty). Wealthy Americans could marry off their daughters to aristocrats, not royals.

    Thank you for saying this. It drives me nuts that people think an aristocrat is royal. Princess Diana was the daughter of an earl so aristos and royalty have intermarried. They move in a lot of the same circles. Modern royals are allowed to marry who they want like King Filipe of Spain and Letizia, Prince Edward and Sophie (my favorite royals), Willem Alexander and Maxama of the Netherlands, etc. 

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    S02.E05: Close Enough to Touch

    in The Gilded Age

    10 minutes ago, peeayebee said:

    I still don't have much interest in Marian, though I did get a chuckle out of her reaction when Dashiell said something about marriage.

    His daughter gives me creepy vibes. LOL The character got lost on the way to The Shining hotel and wound up in late 1800s Manhattan. 

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    S02.E05: Close Enough to Touch

    in The Gilded Age

    Yay for Ada and the rev! These two deserve love and happiness. I'm watching on my laptop so some of the scenes are so dark. Please tell me that Peggy and Fortune don't hook up. She deserves better. Also, hooray for the eagle eyed staff who caught that something was amiss. 

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    The Buccaneers - General Discussion

    in The Buccaneers

    I watched the first ep and am halfway in ep two. Don't think I'll be finishing this. Wharton must be rolling in her grave. I know critics didn't like the 1995 series, but apparently the ending is similar to what EW planned (I've read that the person who finished it worked with an outline she left before she passed). Of course the book didn't have modern flourishes like the (spoiler tags if you haven't seen the '95 version)

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    gay duke or abortion storyline--he was an ice cold fish, but no hints he was into men, and no marital rape. The Brightlingseas were poor and always asking for money.  Nan gave Connie money to settle a debt. 

    I guess we're not getting Idina, but in the 1995 one we also didn't have Mabel. Lord Richard's sisters were much nicer in that version.

    The music takes me out of it all. It doesn't work like it did in "A Knight's Tale," and the pop songs are played orchestral in "Bridgerton." This seems like a very cheap knock-off. The actors aren't bad, but so much is distracting. Where is Conchita's Brazilian accent?  I love Testvalley in the earlier one and her BFF relationship with Nan. That charm is gone here.

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    S02.E03: Head to Head

    in The Gilded Age

    If Turner's husband dies, her best bet is to move far from New York and settle herself comfortably in a city like Chicago where no one will know her past. She would be 'just' a wealthy widow and could mingle there. IMO, Boston and Philadelphia would still be too close. If he dies and she remarries too quick, that would look bad also. 

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    S02.E02: Some Sort of Trick

    in The Gilded Age

    31 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

    I highly doubt that Turner will tell her or even hint it. I don’t see how there is any upside for Turner if she told or even hinted at what she did in the Russells’ house.

    True. What could be gained? Would that bring shame to her new husband? He may know she is a former lady's maid, but probably not that she tried to proposition the man of the house.

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    S03.E08: We’ll Never Have Paris

    in Ted Lasso

    2 hours ago, Capricasix said:

    I forgot to add that “Wagatha Christie” is a good play on words, because in the UK, “WAG” is a common abbreviation for “wives and girlfriends” of football players, and the principles in this court case were the wives of two famous footballers, Wayne Rooney being one of them - I believe he played on the English national team for a long time. I can’t remembe what EPL team he played for, though.

    My hubby and I will be in London next month and was looking into going to a West End show and there is one based on "Wagatha Christie." LOL 

    https://wagathaplay.com/ 

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    S03.E08: We’ll Never Have Paris

    in Ted Lasso

    I really don't want Rebecca with someone we haven't gotten to know (I'm including Netherlands boat guy). Sam and her were sweet, but problematic. I had hoped that Trent and her would develop a relationship since he's now at Richmond working on his book, but the writers tossed that out. Her and Ted work as BFFs, but nothing else unless they do a big time jump. I don't want him and Michelle getting back together. He really doesn't need that drama again. I also don't want him with Sassy Smurf. Maybe Ted pulls a Kelly Taylor and "I choose me"? Or Rebecca does that? I don't like relationships out of the blue. That's why Keeley and Roy worked.  

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