Bedecked myself in my finest geegaws (pyjamas with little fruits on) for this whirlwind of an episode that was just as scrumptious on rewatch <3
Ok omg I need to collect myself I can’t help it this was just so good like I felt every single emotion possible watching this episode
I have so much I want to mention it’s a little bit ridiculous but I just need to get it out of me…
This was just insane television like INSANE
The amount of things that have been held purely as canon only in ao3 world becoming actually canon in tv world !!!! I’m unwell the fanfic oracles strike again
Did a little jig when Merritt Wever was announced to play Bertha’s sister last year but actually seeing her here has me twirling round the room, she was brilliant for this omg
Gonna go chronologically for once instead of just screaming stuff as I remember it so list of things I simply must mention, some of them I realise I’m not adding anything to I’m just repeating what happened but I don’t even care because this show is had got me by the teeth
- How splendid to open with watching the entire house march up to congregate for a house meeting that lasted all of 30 seconds
- Bertha bristling at Larry daring to mention her humble beginnings and George just standing there looking amused
- A wedding and a seance in one episode honey we’ve hit the jackpot
- Andrea Martin with a whole mink stole draped around her neck
- Was losing it at the way Agnes came in and shut that shit downnn, she had some brilliant lines here with impeccable delivery as always but the pronunciation of ‘sug-gestion’ was the icing on the cake
- But also the way she yelled ‘Bannister!!’ really got me too, I’ve been yelling it at my boyfriend all day much to his delight
- Am loving Ada and Agnes’ scenes together this series, I love the comedic parts while they’re at odds with each other in basically everything, it’s just great sibling stuff in the house across the street
- Ada’s going to start going to even more drastic measures now isn’t she…
- Ugh I just love watching the staff gossip in hushed tones by candlelight
- Larry was such a little worm for this <3 causing drama and acting all coy after mm he is his mothers son
- “Your sister is in the hall mother” “But why is she in the house at all?” helpppppp
- Immediately obsessed with everything going on here. Really worked to establish so much about them both in just a couple of minutes.. like the way she didn’t even greet her ohhhhh
- “Why are you here? 🙂” please she’s sooo
- Merritt Wever was everything I was hoping she’d be and more, just perfect with the tension the subtle humour and how her and Carrie Coon played off of each other!!!
- Peggy talking about getting the vote and being so sure it’ll come in her lifetime .. oh :(
- This whole scene of Bertha with Monica ahhh the room is frostyyyy, Bertha’s old life clashing with her new, Monica knowing just how to get under her skin.. so so good omg
- Also the lilt she’s put on her voice for this - sublime work
- Agnes coming in to gossip with Marian !! adored this bitttt <3 her way of trying to connect with her and the way she knew she confides in Ada but she wants her to know she’s there for her too, just differently :) ohhh my heart
- Over the moon for Jack omg !!!! I was smiling so much, loved that whole negotiation scene and him just sat there like 😯
- And then the way he came back to the house like he was walking on a cloud :,) his little smile and comment as he went into his room ugh I loveeeee him!! that was so so lovely, I’m so glad this plot has gotten such a brilliant ending, it’s been such a sweet one to watch develop
- Clock twink forever xoxo
- 20 minutes in and this much of note has happened ??! you can’t stop me now!!
- William being the first one to stand and clap for Peggy <333 and how he was so genuinely enamoured by her like he’s literally her biggest fan oh I’m loving watching their relationship develop
- Aurora being there :,)
- Cheering at Mrs Scott refusing to take any more from Mrs Kirkland like she said do NOT say another word on my husband as she flipping should!!
- Monica stirring the pot at dinner.. obsessed doesn’t even begin to cover it I watched this whole scene with the biggest smirk on my face ugh I love a messy dinner
- I gasped at the coffee cup and then silently screamed at that look on Bertha’s face my diabolical queen
- Replayed that scene maybe 5 times it’s just so 🤭 the fake shock and then the little self satisfied head tilt I can’ttttt
- This Lady Sarah is going to be an issue isn’t she
- George and Bertha in their luxurious silky nightwear <3 thank you for this gift
- Their conversation was so fucking good oh my god the way it was set out with them across each other, the tension !!
- The way she let slip what she did in the way she only would do when talking to George .. please I miss them being ruthless lovebirds united I WANT THEM BACKKKK
- Ahh he’s still so amused by her antics
- In an ideal world “we’re a pretty ruthless pair, aren’t we, you and I?” would have been followed by furious sex but I hold out hope we will get that before the season is done .. please I need it and I’m not above begging at this point
- George still trying to express how he feels about Gladys and the Duke and Bertha having none of it… it’s too late babes !! omg you promised her and she trusted you and you let her down :/
- “Go to bed George and wake up sensible” I mean how do you even recover from that
- Jack and Mrs Bauer’s conversation at night :,) so so sweet my heart is so happy, and the way she was just bursting with pride for him just like all of us <3
- Bertha deploying Marian like the worlds most angelic bringer of doom
- The sadness in Gladys eyes is just so aching :(
- Russell industries on the edge of ruin ?!?!! this is so stressful oh my god I’m eating this up are they gonna lose everything ??? thrilling stuff
- “Today I have to marry my daughter to a man she doesn’t like” hold me up
- Ada coming down wearing something ‘new’ and it being exactly like all her other black dresses was the funniest thing they could have done
- Agnes reading the blind items aloud from the paper is everything
- Marian coming to show off her dress shaking her little bustle she’s so cuteeeee
- Donna Murphy chewing every line of that scene
- Things are getting so tense oh myyy
- Ada dropping Agnes right in it with Mrs Astor I’m cryinggggg that was so funny
- George and Gladys oh I feel sick :( her expressing her fear, him apologising for it getting to this point when he promised her otherwise, the distance between them, the pain in her eyes ..my head hurts. what the hell. I have felt every single emotion throughout this episode I have so many thoughts and feelings on all of it it’s seriously got me dizzy
- Turner wearing something so similar to what Bertha wore earlier in the ep I’m screaming now that can’t be another coincidence
- This was the point I had to sit bolt upright for these last ten minutes I felt so sick like I just could not tell which way it was going to go every outcome was set to be hell
- George sat waiting, the staff watching on, plus that stressful instrumental music - god I love television
- Bertha peacocking through the church not a care in the world
- The pre wedding gossip is sending me
- Nahhh they showed the tiniest bit of interest and she dragged her sister out of there so fast I’m 😭 I neeeed more of them this is too good
- More hints on Bertha’s character and her upbringing I can’t believe how big we won
- Gladys coming down the stairs oh that was cinematic
- The dress - absolutely magnificent just wow honestly. The work gone into that is exquisite
- Something happened for literally every single character in this ep like not a moment spared so Borden and Mrs Bruce was just another thing that had me gobsmacked
- oh my god :( what’s gonna happen with them they were so cute :(
- mmm more barbs being thrown in the church mhm mhmm
- What the fuck do you mean “just try not to laugh” um hellooooo ??!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN
- this is heartbreaking oh my goodness
- Gladys sobbing as she walks down the aisle was devastating to watch
- The sadness in Taissa Farmiga’s eyes is something else, I feel like I haven’t praised her acting enough but she’s been so great every episode, she just looks so small in every scene it’s so clever the way she’s almost managed to shrink herself down to portray everything she’s feeling
- her pov when it’s all muffled stop omg
- christ she looks like Bambi after the hunters been
- Gladys crumbling before our very eyes Bertha watching on tears of joy in her eyes “let me enjoy it” oh that is so sick and twisted
- I’m pretty sure we just watched GeorgeBertha die in that very moment … I can’t cope with all that yet
- even at this point I still wasn’t sure what was going to happen like was someone going to object? was she going to run out of there? and then like watching a sad balloon full of hopes and dreams fly away - that was it and it was done
- Really nervous about how Hector was with Gladys there, he was almost sort of kind but not enough for my liking, he was still pushy with it but in such a way almost hidden by charm that made it even worse. I so wish he would’ve seen her fears and hesitance and said he would wait for her to be ready - that took away quite a lot of hope that last weeks ep brought with how he spoke with her when it was just the two of them, how he tried to make her feel comfortable and admitted he knew this was strange situation, I liked that about him last week and here he had some of that too, but then he acted just how you would expect him to. And that was pretty tough to watch. Like we already know she’s going to England to lead a miserable lonely life but there’s still that bit of me that prays it won’t be so :( but I know. Him leading her to bed and the slow pan away made me want to cry.
- Then that final shot oh god :( the ships through the porthole with the blue tones and the sad tender music as they set sail - what an ending
- And once again I am bereft
This show used to be so frothy and silly and now it’s literally one of the greatest dramas currently airing on television
I fear this time I really have gone overboard and somehow I still feel like I haven’t said half of what I even wanted to say but HQ is telling me to wrap it up or I’ll lose my brand deals
I’m well aware I’m doing too much but this is my personal diary and I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive
Also I knew I wasn’t strong enough to watch the coming weeks preview this morning so I just watched it now and oh my fucking god this show will be the end of me
You think I was insufferable before oh just you wait
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