S01.E09: Reject's Beach

[formerlyfreedom]

Lillian's new friends invite her to a beach party; Beatrice is brought to Thomas Edison for a forbidden experiment; Blanche receives a mysterious letter from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory; Garfield tries to keep the family from falling apart.

 

 

[teddysmom]

Jason Ritter wearing the vagina hat wins.  

 

Also, Christina Hendricks and Brett Gelman.    "I don't think you understand how blackmail works". 

[thuganomics85]

Stephen Tobolowsky would be an extremely creepy Thomas Edison on this show.  I do love that, no matter what, Edison is always the go to historical figure, to make into some kind of bad guy.  That whole thing was disturbing as hell.

 

Aww, Blanche has now become Chair's next victim.  I feel bad for her, even if she's insane.  But I love how ruthless Chair is and hopefully her downfall will be spectacular (although, I hope she's still around next season.)  Christina Hendricks is killing it.

 

Loved the return of Marquis de Sainsbury, and him and Celery ganging up on Lillian.  Curious to see if Lillian will have a response to them for the finale.

 

Wanted to see more of Frederick's bachelor party.

 

Peepers = Farts.  He is not amused.

[Amethyst]

Wow, Chair is crazy.  Clever, but crazy.  Poor Blanche being suckered into her schemes.  Although given what actually happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, Blanche might want to consider it a bullet dodged.  Nice little nod/wink to the audience.  But I hope that Chair gets her comeuppance.  

 

Lillian on the beach was the best part.  Her screaming "Poor people!  Hot dog?!" in slo-mo just killed me.

[Cosmic Muffin]

I thought this episode was also too dark, like the dog's party one, and without enough humor. I'm starting to go off this show, which is a shame because I really enjoyed the first few episodes.

[iMonrey]

I agree, there's just something "off" about the whole thing and I can't quite put my finger on it. The concept is great, so many of the performances are great, and there are funny moments, but as a whole, it's just not quite there. I can't explain it any better than that.

 

I know it's just a dumb comedy but the anachronism of Thomas Edison knowing what the Emerald City would look like some 40 years before the movie was made distracted me. (The backdrop was clearly from the classic 1939 MGM film; he couldn't have gotten that visual from the book.)

[ganesh]

I liked that out of Edison's pervy show that the other guy was Chaplin.

 

Beatrice: I'm already down here. 

 

I didn't think Lillian was being set up until right before. I mean, of course she was. I want to see her revenge.

 

It looks like this whole season was set up for Chair to take over the house. 

 

I don't have a problem with the show being so dark. I actually would like more singing. 

[DiegoBurger]

I disagree with the naysayers. This is a new favorite and it has done what I thought was the impossible: make me find Natasha Leggero funny. I am also completely in love with the adorable Jason Ritter with or without his vagina hat. 

[Kromm]

The Wizard of Ahhhhhs is another great joke from the show. 

 

We could nitpick about Edison taking inspiration from the filmed version of The Wizard of Oz rather than what's in the books (Wizard of Oz, publication date 1899), but that really IS a nitpick IMO.

[MDKNIGHT]

I am only now in 2018 seeing this show.  I was particularly impressed with the detail of Chair's revenge.  I THOUGHT that Blanche had really gotten a letter from the Triangle Shirt Co and that ironically Chair's interference with Blanche's interview would save her life so that SOME good would come out of this.  But no,  so that the address of the interview would be at the asylum it had to be Chair who wrote the letter in the first place.  Brilliant on both Chair and the writer's part.  At this point I have very mixed feelings about Chair.  I was kind of on her side at the beginning because trying to get some money out of these monsters by having a baby isn't the worst thing  a person could do especially since the poor had very little recourse.  That conversation in the pilot about poor women being either servants or whores wasn't totally  wrong.  There was also factory work like Blanche wanted but even if you  didn't die in a fire because your overlords locked your only escape there were a lot of other ways to die in a factory.  So I was kind of in Chair's corner at the start but now she sold a woman into White Slavery (even though she's a horrible person nobody deserves that)  and she put a woman into an asylum who isn't crazy.  Too far.