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Probably not-- maybe it was part of what was fictionalized for the show. Even so, this 6th episode showed the seeds of what Dee Dee was toward Gypsy, and did it well. The best part, however, was Gypsy going crazy from the sound of that insistent child at the vending machine, and not being able to get back in the hotel room because Nick locked her out (apparently for modesty purposes). She really took him to task!

Just finished #6, and I personally believe that Margo Martindale's character of Emma (Dee Dee's mother) took far better care of Gypsy than Dee Dee ever did!

That's Joey King for me-- she's masterful, and I can't wait to finish out that Gypsy Rose season of The Act!

Did you see it through the leaks on YouTube?

Bumping this up-- I've felt the same way about Joey King of late!

Great point! Without her, The Bob Newhart Show would not have been near as worth the money as it has been to me!

Bumping this up-- yet another: the late, great Richard Boone as Paladin, in Have Gun, Will Travel (1957-63 on CBS)

On the show page for The Act on Hulu, under "Extras." I'm just guessing, based on what I heard in that promo, that such is the direction the last episodes of the season will take (I hope I'm not wrong).

Saw the preview for the 6th episode, and it seems like the Gypsy Rose saga might take on sort of a Dallas-like twist (not about oil, mind you, but more going in the direction of the best primetime serials of the past).

Thanks very much! I didn't want there to be any confusion between the two names.

Being that these forums are now under the Primetimer name, will there be a change of domain name from "forums.previously.tv" to "forums.primetimer.tv," or something along those lines?

So that Gypsy Rose saga is going in a more intense direction towards the end? Can't wait to see what it'll be like!

I just witnessed Dee Dee smashing up Gypsy's laptop (Gypsy having fallen asleep with it on), and the big fight between Dee Dee and Gypsy, and I cannot believe that Dee Dee would be so mean like that (not just smashing up Gypsy's laptop, but whaling on Gypsy)!

And it can work vice versa (all Democrats evil, reverse-racist, black-power, anti-white, and all Republicans pure as the driven snow, Godly, patriotic, and having the monopoly on morals).

True enough-- it's still shameful that Kirk held so much sway, though.

He is partly the reason why Growing Pains has ever been ineligible for my DVD collection, and always will be-- after all, it's horrible that one single cast member had that much sway, so much so that female cast members could be fired for showing one bit of skin (IINM, that's how it was); to me, Kirk Cameron was nuts for acting like that (worse yet, for converting to such a strict, legalistic brand of Christianity, which, also IINM, is what he did as well)!

True enough-- just thought I'd try to think outside the box.

Do you think perhaps that there are religious/spiritual parallels in the first episode of The Act: --namely that Gypsy was meant to represent the victims of controlling/patriarchal/legalistic churches; --that the Epipen that was stuck into her leg under false pretense for a nonexistent sugar allergy was like the controlling mechanisms that these churches would impose upon anyone who tried to take one taste of freedom from them; --that Dee Dee represented the pastor of a controlling/patriarchal/legalistic church who would swoop in whenever a parishioner in such a church dared think for himself/herself and refused any longer to believe that what the church taught was the same as what Jesus Himself said; --and that the cupcake (and the sugary icing on it) represented anything that the church said was a sin to do (irrespective of whether Jesus Himself said it was a sin or not)?

What is it about SVU that has caused it to last so long?!

In what way-- that every case is about abuse, even when there is no actual abuse?

About what happened in the first episode with Dee Dee sticking Gypsy with that Epipen for the nonexistent sugar allergy supposedly caused by licking a cupcake-- wouldn't that be something that Spock on Star Trek would deem, in his phraseology, "illogical" (being as all those PediaSure solutions that Dee Dee was forcing into Gypsy in that feeding tube had sugar out the wazoo that Gypsy didn't react to)? In other words, do you think it was hypocritical on Dee Dee's part to punish Gypsy in that way for having sugar in an unapproved way (on that cupcake), considering the sugar content in all that PediaSure?

A warning label that should have been on all of Law & Order from the get-go in 1990!!

Not about the series, but about Hulu's presentation thereof-- the series page for The Act has several short featurettes that take you inside what you're seeing in each episode; have you seen any of those?

Joey, you mean?

Just finished that first act of The Act, and one thing seems very clear to me-- that mother was abusive! I mean, think about it-- Gypsy is leading a sheltered life because her mother thinks she has all these illnesses and diseases, and her mother subsequently thinks that certain things will make them worse. Gypsy takes one lick of a cupcake at a party, and all of the sudden, her mother rushes in with an epipen like it's the end of the world, then gets her to the ER. I mean, Gypsy didn't even eat a whole cupcake, and that mother is acting like she did. Granted, for someone who really has an allergy to sugar, you'd need to have that epipen on hand to deal with it at the time of a reaction (as with anything that anyone has allergies to), but in context of the story, I think that Dee Dee just didn't want her daughter to escape the shackles of that sheltered existence, so she immediately used an epipen under false pretense to combat the perceived dangers of sugar to her daughter. BTW, a question: do you think that when this first-season Act is fully played out (the Gypsy Rose/Dee Dee affair), Warner Bros. or some other studio will put out a first-season DVD/Blu of it, with audio commentary by Joey King, among other things?